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<p>Finance is the biggest concentration at Wharton. AEM is one major whereas Wharton is a whole school. And which “business aspect” did you mean??? You don’t make any sense</p>
<p>HYPS don’t even have business undergrads and Sloan doesn’t have the connections that Wharton does (it focuses on the technical stuff like operation systems). No actually they are not recognized as well. Wharton is the best there is.</p>
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<p>Cornell’s AEM program (Applied Economics and Management) program is part of Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, which is a New York funded state school. Furthermore, their admittance rate directly into the program is 20% (right from their website), and Wharton’s admit rate is far lower than this. Plus, they also say right on their website: U.S. News & World Report ranked AEM’s business program #14 in its 2005 rankings of top undergraduate business programs." Even though I didn’t say it, but it’s not at all ignorant to call Wharton better than AEM, since they’re only like 4 undergrad business programs that are really well known, especially among “laymen” like me who are not studying business. You sound kind of insecure about one’s choice to go to Cornell (assuming you do), and though I say you should not be (one will still have great options after college), you shouldn’t come on the penn board berating its schools and promoting your own.</p>
<p>my mom doesn’t want me to apply to wharton ED because she thinks they won’t give me a lot of financial aid. do you know how generous penn is to ED applicants? i definitely need a good amount of it.</p>
<p>also, is wharton extremely competitive? although a good amount of competition pushes me to work harder, too much of it can be discouraging and frustrating. i don’t know what the atmosphere is like, but i’m guessing the business students at wharton must be pretty cutthroat. what do you think?</p>
<p>superchica: Maybe it wasn’t the smartest move on your behalf pasting this topic on the penn forum. If you want an unbiased thread and avoid vehement criticism, you should put in a neutral forum. This means you don’t paste a Cornell vs. Penn topic on a Cornell or a Penn board. It really isn’t that trivial.</p>
<p>As far as comparing business schools between Cornell and Penn, I would say Wharton is superior. It appears that eternity has given that credit to Penn with the minor exception of Cornell’s AEM program. I find it amusing that so many future quakers reacted so viciously to such a minor outlook by one individual.</p>
<p>RE: superchica</p>
<p>School’s policys are not to discrimate between ED and Regular applicants, but we all know that financial aid is a pretty fuzzy science. In relative terms, historically Penn has not been as generous as say, H, Y, or P. I personally lucked out and recieved one of the scholarship/grants that award all grant, rather than loan (so I wasn’t required to take out any loans, although I did so anyways, just to lighten the burden on my parents)</p>
<p>However, the current President does seem to be something of a visionary (she was Princeton’s Provost) with respect to Financial aid, particularly in how it affects the demographics of a “diverse democracy”. She has begun big funding drives and is loosening the university’s purse strings (e.g., additional outside scholarships no longer affect the institutional finaid package)</p>
<p>w.r.t. competition, like any top school, the potential to feel pressure for grades exists ( i don’t think there is any other significant pressure). Again, this varies individual by individual. e.g. if you’re a top student, the pressure certainly feels less, if you’re a laid back individual by nature, the pressure is less, but if you’re not a top student and tend to stress… well, the fear of getting lower grades may be detrimental to your mental health.</p>
<p>I personally don’t find the STUDENTS NOR the PROGRAMS to be “cutthroat”. There is an enforced grading distribution in many wharton classes (similar to a curve for a science class - in this case roughly 20A, 40B. 30C, 10D/F) but the students won’t sabotage eachother’s learning and i don’t see very many “gunners” in class - e.g. flirting with the TA/Professor (lol), always asking mundane questions, etc. </p>
<p>I think the atmosphere of the school is a positive one in general, and there is a lot of support structures in place for students - e.g. MGMT 100 (the wharton intro class)</p>
<p>hope this is helpful :)</p>