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Booth has a more impressive faculty and more nobels. It is clearly a smarter and more successful university. But Wharton has ‘the brand’ amongst people that don’t understand how universities work…
Mentor
The idea that Booth is highly or primarily academic is wild to me. From my friends there, it seems like half of the class is constantly clubbing, skipping class to travel, and otherwise not caring about academics because of GND and the curves
I’m going to booth / was waitlisted at Wharton. Outside of this prestige obsessed group on this bowl, booth is an incredible school that many people dream to go to. That said, Wharton certainly has the edge in prestige. I think the gap between Wharton and booth is smaller than H/S vs Wharton, but Wharton still has the edge (for now??? - me being hopeful).
Coach
If you got into W I bet you’d have gone, especially if you’re in PE
B>W. Booth also ranked #1 Bschool this year
😂
Mentor
A lot of people in this bowl are M4-7 grads who have a vested interest in tearing Wharton down. Wharton still has 3:1 cross yields against M4-7, who are sometimes offering way more money. Clearly more prestigious.
Now you are welcome to come in with the takes that prestige is a stupid concept and you should look at other more meaningful metrics. There’s definitely some truth to that. But OP asked about prestige, so there’s a right answer and a wrong answer…
Mentor
You gotta be a certain type of person to be gassing up “M4-7” 😂 l
- Shouldn’t matter 15 years down the line, as your body of work will assume greater importance
- Doesn’t matter so much in exit opps except some PE shops
- Doesn’t matter to folks you’re looking to date
Did I miss anything important?
Take the $$. Take Wharton if all else equal.
I imagine the average person is more familiar with Wharton. And obviously there’s the “HSW then the rest of M7” mentality. So I think prestige wise W>B
Coach
I thought about HSW (which I don’t know if it’s a consultant-invented thing btw). Thing is…I feel the average person outside of the US wouldn’t be familiar with either 😬 I can’t speak for the US
Coach
Booth is a great school and I know people will give me shit for this, but Wharton has much more global cachet and renown than Booth.
Coach
Jesus Christ Booth is a great school @all of the very clearly insecure Booth admits/students on this bowl lol
W>B
Mentor
Wharton >
I had the Booth Wharton choice for a pivot to finance and chose Booth for this fall!! Feel free to message if you have any questions
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