Accepted Wharton!
Thankful! Will commit after visiting and appealing aid
Accepted to Wharton! What a journey and what a night!
Congrats to all… I am a Penn/Wharton alum and this being my first post, just wanted to encourage you to maximize your opportunities in the future – whether it be in Houston Hall (chatting with friends) or at Vance / Hunstman hall or SH-DH with your business classes.
Note: if bidding for classes/professors are still being practiced - save your “bullets” to the best “soft skill” profs – some are “overrated” in my opinion (eg Siegel, seriously… LOL). Learn your soft skills from the best profs and bid all your points there (eg Negotiations class etc). Good luck and enjoy the ride!
My twins got in! Now we might have 3 quakers as their older brother is currently at Penn!! Wife and I are rooting for Penn but twins are still processing. Congrats to all the ones who got in! Also to those who got waitlisted, or rejected, you or your kid will go somewhere amazing, good luck!
Congrats! D also accepted to Nursing! Can’t believe it! The finances are real ugly tho…
My son was just admitted in the RD round. We are very excited but concerned about the pre-professional cutthroat environment we’ve heard about there. My son isn’t that way at all. He’s more shy and thoughtful. Just wondering if all the kids are swept up into this preprofessional type of vibe, or if my son will be able to find his Friends at the school. He’s currently a physics major, but not totally sure what he wants to do with his life. Any feedback appreciated.
My two cents is a lot of that is coming out of Wharton, and CAS is more academicky.
Thank you. Just want him to be happy.
D23 is a dual degree Engineering and CAS and not her nor any of her friends fit the cutthroat reputation. She has friends across schools and disciplines and finds it collaborative. She got in RD last year and met students at Quaker Days and really clicked with them and knew it was a fit. Yours should go if they can.
All of these kids are super achievers coming out ofHS, but the vibe is more competitive with themselves not with others—not “cutthroat” with students trying to tear others down. It is not too different than any other top school with loads of top scoring over-involved high schoolers who have to adjust to being “average “ in some classes(or many), and below average too sometimes. Some kids do not adjust well to that. Her older sister has very similar descriptions of Duke, and we know kids at other T10s who also note that pressure they put on themselves in these schools(because they are used to being one of the top kids in HS).
My Penn kid has had small classes, gotten to know professors and advisors well, describes most profs as nice and caring, and feels as though Penn has been easy to make close friends and have a lot of fun on campus and in philly.
Our kid will likely attend as well, unless she changes her mind and go to Swarthmore. We happen to be friends with a few physics faculty there, at least 2 of them are extremely kind and thoughtful people, hope that helps! We live close by and am going there for lunch and dinner. My husband went to graduate school at Penn. I personally wanted her to go to Swarthmore but staying in the city is better for her because she can see her sister once in a while if they wish to do so. Sisters!
It is not cutthroat, which to me implies that kids are sabotaging each other. That’s not what goes on.
Penn students will sometimes find themselves in competition to get into clubs or internship opportunities, particularly at Wharton. But even in Wharton, there’s a lot of small-group assignments, which (very intentionally) require teamwork and instill collaboration.
As you know, undergraduate education at Penn is divided into four schools, three of which are pre-professional: Nursing, SEAS, and Nursing. That can’t help but tilt the school to a more careerist vibe compared to, say, Yale.
The fourth and (by far) largest is CAS, which is where the liberal arts, humanities and social sciences are. That is where you’ll find people studying philosophy, history, literature, applied math, sociology, etc.
Go to Quaker Days, get a feel for it.
Absolutely! Definitely going to the Quaker days!! Thanks for all the insight.
Any recommendations for hotels that are not over $200 for UPenn visit?
Try vrbo to search?
My daughter wants to apply for nursing next year, would love to hear what you think helped as I don’t see many nursing posters! Maybe PM me? Thanks!
You should start a new thread with your question. Maybe consider it a “chance me” thread? Note that the freshman nursing cohort is very small compared to other schools at Penn.
Do you know when the quaker days will be this year?
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I know that April 11, 12 & 13 are Quaker days. I’m sure there’s more.