Wharton - what’s the typical profile of a dmv kid who gets in?

[Anonymous]

DS was interested in Wharton. Had the stats and the ECs so it was not unreasonable. We visited. Personally I don't care for it as an undergraduate experience. You can call it very pre-professional. You can also call it ruthless and soul-crushing for an 18 year old. But DS was interested.

We looked at whatever data and anecdotes we could find about DMV admits to Wharton - particularly for ED. The takeaway was that for every 100 applicants from this area, maybe 5 were accepted. It does happen. But for anyone unhooked, it seemed like a pointless application. Decided it was not worth throwing away an ED application. He applied ED elsewhere. Got in. So will never know if he could of gotten into Wharton. Just as well as far as I'm concerned.

My sense is that the undergraduates at Wharton really, really want to be there. They genuinely embrace their inner shark.

[Anonymous]

DD was also interested and we gently talked her out of it. Would not have been a good fit. She’s no shark and it would have been the wrong type of pressure. Business school is overrated. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-02/us-mba-applications-fall-putting-pressure-on-b-school-deans?embedded-checkout=true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% of the kids I know who were admitted in the last 5 years were legacy/double legacy, with the exception of two, both of whom were faculty/staff.

Why does the school maintain a desirable standing if they mainly accept legacy, staff children, athletes only?

People want to attend because it’s “elite,” but they are just picking people associated with the school or that have athletic ability.

You have just summed up the entire Ivy League and now understand why people post on here that you should ignore rankings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% of the kids I know who were admitted in the last 5 years were legacy/double legacy, with the exception of two, both of whom were faculty/staff.

Why does the school maintain a desirable standing if they mainly accept legacy, staff children, athletes only?

People want to attend because it’s “elite,” but they are just picking people associated with the school or that have athletic ability.

You have just summed up the entire Ivy League and now understand why people post on here that you should ignore rankings.

Sour grapes. There are tons of highly-qualified - yes, elite - student athletes, children of staff/alumni, etc. They just had a thing that edged them over everyone else. Look at the numbers - these schools could fill their roster many times over with all of the "elite" kids applying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only one I know in the past 2 yrs was a rowing commit.

That's the only guarantee at Penn.

If your last name doesn’t end in Biden then being an athlete is the best way in. Obviously legacy helps too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% of the kids I know who were admitted in the last 5 years were legacy/double legacy, with the exception of two, both of whom were faculty/staff.

Why does the school maintain a desirable standing if they mainly accept legacy, staff children, athletes only?

People want to attend because it’s “elite,” but they are just picking people associated with the school or that have athletic ability.

You have just summed up the entire Ivy League and now understand why people post on here that you should ignore rankings.

Sour grapes. There are tons of highly-qualified - yes, elite - student athletes, children of staff/alumni, etc. They just had a thing that edged them over everyone else. Look at the numbers - these schools could fill their roster many times over with all of the "elite" kids applying.

So true about athletes. You cannot just have athletic ability and play D1 sports. You need to practice for years and years and make countless sacrifices to be a recruitable D1 (or for that matter D3) athlete. And you need to do well in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% of the kids I know who were admitted in the last 5 years were legacy/double legacy, with the exception of two, both of whom were faculty/staff.

Why does the school maintain a desirable standing if they mainly accept legacy, staff children, athletes only?

People want to attend because it’s “elite,” but they are just picking people associated with the school or that have athletic ability.

You have just summed up the entire Ivy League and now understand why people post on here that you should ignore rankings.

Sour grapes. There are tons of highly-qualified - yes, elite - student athletes, children of staff/alumni, etc. They just had a thing that edged them over everyone else. Look at the numbers - these schools could fill their roster many times over with all of the "elite" kids applying.

So true about athletes. You cannot just have athletic ability and play D1 sports. You need to practice for years and years and make countless sacrifices to be a recruitable D1 (or for that matter D3) athlete. And you need to do well in school.

You need to do relatively well in school to be recruited for Ivy D1 schools...but obviously, you do not need to do well in school to be recruited to say play football for Alabama. Outside of may 20-30 D1 academic schools, the vast majority of which are considered Lower D1 (from a competitive standpoint)...you just need to meet minimum academic standards. Even Duke and Stanford players, while having better stats than the average top D1 athlete, have lower standards than the students at the school on average...in the case of Duke basketball, much lower standards.

Not sure why the topic digressed about DMV kids and Wharton.

[Anonymous]

The two Wharton admits I know well from the past 4 years have very similar profiles:

white

non-athlete, non-legacy

reasonably bright

filthy, filthy rich. Not "UMC." One is the kid of a a person who runs companies that everyone reading this knows. The other is the offspring of a guy who created a successful hedge fund in the _80s_ and bought half of Tribeca before it got hot.

[Anonymous]

I know 3 recent admits to Wharton. One is an URM, legacy and started a non-profit during the pandemic. The other 2 are recruited lacrosse players. Private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The two Wharton admits I know well from the past 4 years have very similar profiles:

white

non-athlete, non-legacy

reasonably bright

filthy, filthy rich. Not "UMC." One is the kid of a a person who runs companies that everyone reading this knows. The other is the offspring of a guy who created a successful hedge fund in the _80s_ and bought half of Tribeca before it got hot.

Gentile or Jewish?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The two Wharton admits I know well from the past 4 years have very similar profiles:

white

non-athlete, non-legacy

reasonably bright

filthy, filthy rich. Not "UMC." One is the kid of a a person who runs companies that everyone reading this knows. The other is the offspring of a guy who created a successful hedge fund in the _80s_ and bought half of Tribeca before it got hot.

Gentile or Jewish?

Both Gentile

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The two Wharton admits I know well from the past 4 years have very similar profiles:

white

non-athlete, non-legacy

reasonably bright

filthy, filthy rich. Not "UMC." One is the kid of a a person who runs companies that everyone reading this knows. The other is the offspring of a guy who created a successful hedge fund in the _80s_ and bought half of Tribeca before it got hot.

Gentile or Jewish?

Both Gentile

Very interesting — I’m W’06 and it felt like the vast majority of my class was Jewish and Asian and athletes were the only white non-Jews (in Wharton)

I felt that other schools were more balanced ethnically

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD was also interested and we gently talked her out of it. Would not have been a good fit. She’s no shark and it would have been the wrong type of pressure. Business school is overrated. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-02/us-mba-applications-fall-putting-pressure-on-b-school-deans?embedded-checkout=true

Pp who is w’06

The girls in my class that seemed to thrive were Indian, East Asian, Jewish or international

It felt really rare to run into a regular white girl at Wharton compared to the college or nursing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No legacy, immigrant who went to public school- MCPS

Blair magnet?

Unlikely, Blair magnet kids aren't typically interested in Wharton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No legacy, immigrant who went to public school- MCPS

Blair magnet?

Unlikely, Blair magnet kids aren't typically interested in Wharton

It actually was Blair— sorry if that doesn’t fit your profile of who goes to Wharton. Oh, also Hispanic.