<p>`1a1, look at the Wharton career service reports (the link is all over the Penn page) you will see that Whartonites work all over the world. Some international firms (like Rothschild in the UK - aka another door closed to Yalies) recruit ONLY out of Wharton undergrad. Top PE firms and hedge funds, both nationally and internationally concentrate on getting Whartonites ahead of any other school at the undergraduate level. That’s concrete proof of a preference for Whartonites. </p>
<p>The Yalies cannot give you a single counter example. Whartonites have the best placement both internationally and domestically – that’s a fact. Yale’s MBA program is a bad joke.For a business education (which is really all international businessmen care about) -remember most of the rest of the world does not have liberal arts - everyone knows that Wharton blows Yale out of the water. These Yalies are blowing hot air. International firms are not stupid, they know the pecking order within the US and that applies outside it. Do you actually believe that businessmen in China or India would not have heard of Wharton? The best finance school in the world. One of the best business schools in the world ? One that they themselves sent their kids to (Mittal’s son in India, Ambani himself in India, Ruimin’s son in China) etc. </p>
<p>ALL know of Wharton and respect it above all others at the undergraduate level (which is why they sent their kids there). Wharton’s business alumni base outstrips Yale by a factor of 5. Ask anyone on Wall Street (who did not go to Yale) what the top tier target schools are and they will say Wharton and Harvard, then Princeton then somewhere down the line comes Yale. There is a reason that: Cohen, Asness, Buffett, Trump, Perelman, Taleb, Kashkari -the men that are shaping our world today, not the whitney’s and vanderbilt’s that shaped in 150 years ago are Whartonites. In the general world, (in political circles for instance) sure Yale is absolutely respected, but Wharton trumps Yale in terms of international reputation for those in business by FAR. Wharton’s way larger alumni base and further reach in all of these countries shows that to be true. No one, other than Yalies, would argue that Yale has better international representation in business circles.</p>
<p>You are confusing the attitudes of the general uneducated populous (who would probably have heard of Yale more than Wharton - but would probably have heard of neither) for the actual attitudes of the business community - they are not the same. Even in America, your average person walking down the street would probably think that a Yale MBA is superior to a Wharton MBA, but that does not reflect what people in the business community think at all. Yale’s MBA program is far far inferior and the people that need to know that, that have an effect on you, know that. No one who knew anything about the industry would choose Yale MBA over Wharton MBA, the views of uneducated fishermen don’t matter. I’ve spent 15 years in Asia, I can tell you as a fact that Wharton is way more respected than Yale in the business community in Asia.</p>
<p>Thatguy100, you are totally off the mark. I cannot believe you actually are trying to tell me that Warren Buffett does not have influence in the business world. He probably has more influence than anyone else. Anyone in the industry would agree, you obviously don’t know what you are talking about. Buffett left Wharton after three years only because his father lost his congress relelection campaign and he wanted to be closer to him - he is a Whartonite though (just as Bill Gates is a Harvardian) and he hosts meeting with Wharton kids every year. If you go to Wharton, it is likely that you will be able to meet him in person.</p>
<p>Go to Wharton, get a Harvard MBA. That’s unbeatable.</p>