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Greenwich Boi tryna decide College, Wharton or SEAS

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I'm from an elite prep school and I feel that my chances at Penn are pretty damn good (+ grandpa was Penn Med grad and cousin did undergrad here). Anyways I'm tryna figure out whether I should apply for Wharton, SEAS or College. Here are the pros for each school but trying to figure out the cons. I'm a very quantitative and technology oriented guy but I want to balance with having a fun time in school - so I dont want to do any dual degree things.

Wharton for Finance and BizAnalytics- a lot of hometown clout, best undergraduate business education, best placements into IB, strong finance alumni network in NYC/ Bay Area/ Connecticut

SEAS for Comp Sci- large collaborative community, entrepreneurial atmosphere, solid pipeline to Google and similar companies, possible access to GRASP Lab

College for Physics- one of the best Physics and Astro departments in country, can go to another top grad school for engineering or physics if I later feel like it, can double major with something else in College, can do Pre-Med if I feel like it


Posted By: halp
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probably wharton but only if u have amazing ecs and stats

By: lmao
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Thanks man I know you need good stats but I also wanna know the cons for each school. Like from an honest perspective of someone who finished one year at least lol

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by: halp   

There’s a lot of scientists, physicians and surgeons in my family so I think I don’t have a good enough appreciation for finance. But at the same time, my dad is a successful private equity / activist investor guy but his background is in CS and math and he hires Wharton MBAs often

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by: halp   

lmao why you so butthurt soft boy? wharton only gives you an edge for finance bro, i think i know more than you lol, if you wanna go into consulting, marketing etc you can practically have any degree at Penn. so there wouldn't be any additional advantage to wharton. besides im a math person and wouldn't really want to study anything outside of finance or business analytics so im only thinking in the context of IB.
you just mad that im smart bro lol? or are you a recruited athlete who thinks he's actually qualified to be at Penn because he got a 30 on his ACT haha

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by: halp   

@wrong if you read my original post you'd know i wholeheartedly acknowledged wharton is the best business program, but Im trying to figure what the cons are that Penn doesn't want to advertise. clearly i now see one tho-- a subset of wharton students highly insecure about their intellect

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Asking here mainly because can’t do a college visit cuz of wuhan flu and wanna get opinion on cons from ppl in Greek life

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no one wants you here actually

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by: Bro   

Just call it what it is, dingus. Doubt you’ll get into any of these schools

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all 3 majors and undergraduate schools your looking at good so doesnt matter bro, dont be a geed about it, go with your heart... my 2 cents tho, seems like you should do computer science because you can branch out into finance, tech or scientific research if you want.

By: Theoz
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only thing is if you sorta are considering premed even a little, the College is the most flexible and physics would be more than fine, plus because its quantitative you can eventually work in finance or tech from there or just do research

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by: halp   

got it thanks man,,

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if you aren't sure and bouncing between 3 different majors in 3 separate schools, then i think its more important to do some soul searching first n figure out what you want from college. if i were you tho, i wouldn't write off a possible dual degree so early esp between Finance and Computer Science. also if you go with Physics you want to probably look if Penn's research strengths align with your interests, I know biophysics and space stuff is really damn good

By: CAS student
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here are the low-key cons of each school from my perspective

Wharton- learn most if not all of useful stuff in junior and senior year classes, cutthroat vibes during OCR, too pre-professional if you are more of an "intellectual" economist

SEAS- inferiority vibes relative to better engineering schools like MIT, CMU, Cornell, Columbia, etc., mild pressure to dual degree with Wharton, very little to no hand-holding from advisors and profs

CAS- to diverse to find a solid student community as a freshman (usually have to wait til soph year to find majors like you), inferiority complex relative to Wharton and SEAS esp for Econ majors, a lot of far left-leaning social science and humanities profs, the low-key language requirement\n\n\n\n\n

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UPDATE: will be applying for SEAS in the CompE program. Thank you for all the kind support lads!

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Shut up no one cares

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obviously you cared enough to reply baby girl

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