Is Wharton really cutthroat?

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there are several Wharton grad parents w kids in my kids rising 12th grade class and geez they are cutthroat about EVERY LITTLE BULLSHIT THIING. It's not about grabbing every opportunity, it's also about making sure other kids don't know or dont get the same opportunity.

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Anonymous wrote:They should make an ethics course mandatory or require diversity training.

I'm pretty sure the program does have one, but I think these kids are smart enough to know about what's right and what's wrong.
They just don't care.

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Parent of recent Wharton BS grad. Its competitive, but not crazy compared to top private schools in DC. If anything, I would say it is a little less competitive.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve met quite a few people who went there who aren’t that bright.

Completely agree. I know one who went on to MBB lasted 18 months.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a boyfriend who graduated Wharton undergrad in the early 2000s. Insane environment. Heavy, heavy drug use and partying. Overwhelming pressure.

My best friend graduated from Wharton in the early 2000. She had no time to party, no time for drug use, no time to date. She studied like crazy. FWIW, she's pretty happy now (and loaded).

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve met quite a few people who went there who aren’t that bright.

Completely agree. I know one who went on to MBB lasted 18 months.

Business school doesn't exactly track the brightest. Just those most obsessed with prestige and okay with cutting others off.

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Anonymous wrote:there are several Wharton grad parents w kids in my kids rising 12th grade class and geez they are cutthroat about EVERY LITTLE BULLSHIT THIING. It's not about grabbing every opportunity, it's also about making sure other kids don't know or dont get the same opportunity.

Can you give examples?

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of recent Wharton BS grad. Its competitive, but not crazy compared to top private schools in DC. If anything, I would say it is a little less competitive.

Agree. Parent . Competitive not cutthroat. The reat of Penn is less so. Mine did uncoordinated dual with engineering: also competitive but much less so. Just harder than Wharton by a mile. Too busy to be competitive?

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Anonymous wrote:I had a boyfriend who graduated Wharton undergrad in the early 2000s. Insane environment. Heavy, heavy drug use and partying. Overwhelming pressure.

My best friend graduated from Wharton in the early 2000. She had no time to party, no time for drug use, no time to date. She studied like crazy. FWIW, she's pretty happy now (and loaded).

I graduated from Wharton undergrad in the early 2000s. I studied hard but didn’t find it cutthroat. There was lots of group work and most of the students in my groups were smart and hardworking. I wasn’t aware of drug use. Plenty of drinking but it was not anything special with Wharton kids, just typical college drinking at frat parties on the weekend with plenty of arts & sciences kids too. The social scene was not separated by school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a boyfriend who graduated Wharton undergrad in the early 2000s. Insane environment. Heavy, heavy drug use and partying. Overwhelming pressure.

My best friend graduated from Wharton in the early 2000. She had no time to party, no time for drug use, no time to date. She studied like crazy. FWIW, she's pretty happy now (and loaded).

I graduated from Wharton undergrad in the early 2000s. I studied hard but didn’t find it cutthroat. There was lots of group work and most of the students in my groups were smart and hardworking. I wasn’t aware of drug use. Plenty of drinking but it was not anything special with Wharton kids, just typical college drinking at frat parties on the weekend with plenty of arts & sciences kids too. The social scene was not separated by school.

Wharton, 2020, very little drug use not sure what the other posters are talking about. Alcohol is rampant, but less than many “party” schools and about the same as a sibling at a different ivy. Quite a few don’t drink at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve met quite a few people who went there who aren’t that bright.

Completely agree. I know one who went on to MBB lasted 18 months.

This statistic really doesn’t mean anything…plenty of kids leave MBB from all schools for a variety of reasons…and most leave at 24 months because that’s the nature of the program.

No different than investment banking analyst churn.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve met quite a few people who went there who aren’t that bright.

Donald Trump comes to mind.

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Anonymous wrote:there are several Wharton grad parents w kids in my kids rising 12th grade class and geez they are cutthroat about EVERY LITTLE BULLSHIT THIING. It's not about grabbing every opportunity, it's also about making sure other kids don't know or dont get the same opportunity.

Can you give examples?

"Is Johnny running for class president?" "I think he's still thinking about it." "Well, deadline to register your candidacy was yesterday. So I hope he did it. They didn't send emails just mentioned it over the announcements that morning our kids were volunteering at the place. It's too bad if he missed it - he would hav won and been so good!"

"Is Johnny going for that won full ride scholarship for Armenian kids?" "There's a scholarship for Armenian kids" "Yes! I just read about it last week, But too bad, the deadline was yesterday. I should have thought of you! You're the only Armenian in the school!"

etc etc

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:there are several Wharton grad parents w kids in my kids rising 12th grade class and geez they are cutthroat about EVERY LITTLE BULLSHIT THIING. It's not about grabbing every opportunity, it's also about making sure other kids don't know or dont get the same opportunity.

Can you give examples?

"Is Johnny running for class president?" "I think he's still thinking about it." "Well, deadline to register your candidacy was yesterday. So I hope he did it. They didn't send emails just mentioned it over the announcements that morning our kids were volunteering at the place. It's too bad if he missed it - he would hav won and been so good!"

"Is Johnny going for that won full ride scholarship for Armenian kids?" "There's a scholarship for Armenian kids" "Yes! I just read about it last week, But too bad, the deadline was yesterday. I should have thought of you! You're the only Armenian in the school!"

etc etc

These aren't great examples. Something mentioned over the morning announcements at school is hardly making sure other kids don't know about it. Same thing about reading about it last week (I assume in some school email or other widely distributed correspondence).

I am pretty sure most able-bodied HS kids know about the deadline for running for class president if they are interested.