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Interviewed at both. Booth seems more academic and students are warmer and care for each other. Campus is Hyde Park, but everyone lives in either the same building or same block downtown. The Booth building, Harper Center, is sort of separate from rest of uchicago so it feels like Booth, as opposed to just a part of the university. There’s a separate building downtown, 5-10 min walk from where everyone lives, which is where the evening and weekend classes are, but full time students use it for homework and meetings. Wharton is a bigger name, in the US and internationally, and more alumni, so probably better professionally in the short and long term if the prestige holds. Wharton is in the middle of Penn’s campus, so “Wharton MBA” doesn’t feel as special, it’s just a piece of Penn’s campus. Undergrads everywhere. As an anecdote, both have grade nondisclosure. During the campus tour, Booth students said what happens is people take higher level courses. The Wharton students say they don’t go to class and instead take the time to focus on recruiting
Thank you D1. I visited both the campus and talked to several people. I’m leaning more towards Booth. I felt like people there are very proud of their yet very humble. Wharton for some reason I felt out of place. Which school are you planning to go?
Booth outranked Wharton jumping to #1 spot and has higher employment rates.
I do agree with the comments above re Wharton being a better option for Finance especially if you’re interested in working for an investment bank on the east coast.
I am bias. I live in Chicago - know a lot of people who went there and teach there and think the world of them.
All in all - both are phenomenal options; you can’t go wrong here. Pick the one that feels right and where you think you’d fit in better.
Good luck!
Booth is sightly more corporate/managerial oriented than Wharton which focuses sightly now on financial services as an east coast school
But if you were my kid, I’d still say Booth. ;)
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Got offers from both. And a scholarship from booth. Decided to go to Wharton. Stronger brand that resonates better with clients.
PwC1 and Partner1 - can you give your rationale? Anything apart from the fact that Wharton is largely Finance focused?
I am applying as well so would like to hear thoughts
@OP depends on if or which one get into 😂. But I like Booth personally. I like it’s more academic, the campus, the culture. US applicant, but I’m looking to go international at least for a little bit so Wharton name and network might be a differentiator. The complication is if I really do enjoy Booth so much more, my network might naturally be stronger just from being engaged, even if objectively it’s not as strong as Wharton’s. @pwc1 and @p1, why Booth?
Long post: I went to Chicago undergrad. Like the undergraduate college- the brand is strongest in Chicago. Not outside. I also would never go to bschool in Hyde park after my undergrad experience there. It’s quite a sad neighborhood without anything to really do (parts of it are also quite unsafe). Chicago undergrad is known for its intensity and “where fun goes to die” motto- and therefore the barren neighborhood around it complemented that. I wouldn’t want that for a bschool experience.
The campus isn’t “separate” from the university. It’s right by my old math building and close to the center of campus. Very accessible- both a good and bad thing. I don’t know much about the downtown center. Having seen HBS/Wharton- the feel of booth is just not like those two schools with distinct spaces for their MBA students to spend time in (not just 1 building which is honestly infiltrated by many)
Secondly, true to its reputation, Chicago’s rankings are being driven by many factors only the academic elite would care about (Nobel laureates, PhD program, etc). This won’t change your regular MBA experience. Go for Wharton.
Booths people are way more down to earth. I would say 'fun’ as a dimension is based around your experience alone. Trust me, they both party. We’re talking about the two oldest b-schools in the country - can’t go wrong with either
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Wharton is way more fun. Booth is good if you want to study and learn...which I didn’t.
What M1 said ^. Plus, it’s Wharton.
Wharton - healthcare expertise, more fun, less focused on quant
Is booth relatively easier to get into? Or Wharton?