Who’s going to Wharton this Fall? How far behind are you with the exams?

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I just graduated from Wharton and I’m still unclear on how any of the placement stuff worked 🤣

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Rising 2Y - you can take exams to place out of, or take an accelerated / higher level version of stats, accounting, and the first half of microecon. Depending on your background, you'll find different things easier than others. I was able to place out of stats by credentials and into the higher level of accounting automatically, so I only really dealt with the first half of microecon. Was an UG econ major so it maybe took 5 - 7 hours of concentrated review to refresh; I've heard that stats / accounting take more effort, but again, probably depends on background.

Definitely worth placing out of classes, though - lots of people are dissatisfied with core classes (for good reason, they're dry and nobody is engaged) and all my best classes were electives / things I took outside of Wharton. Highly recommend putting in just a little bit of effort to be able to pass the exams!

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A1 you don’t think it’s worth taking a single one of the basic courses just to brush up?

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What are the exams for? Placement testing?

I thought they were just to waive some of the basic classes but looks like there’s placement too 🤦🏻‍♀️ the instructions etc could use a revamp for clarity

Results of R1 waivers came out today — how was everyone’s luck?

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