{"id":6720,"date":"2011-03-25T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T23:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2011-10-06T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T23:54:27","slug":"is-wharton-a-good-fit-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/is-wharton-a-good-fit-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Wharton a Good Fit For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wharton is one of the top business  schools in the world, and for good reason: Very few schools can match  its reputation in finance, and in recent years Wharton\u2019s pace of  curriculum innovation actually seems to be accelerating.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you know if Wharton really is a good fit for you? Today we look at four things that  might make Wharton you\u2019re first choice among MBA programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>You are interested in finance. <\/strong> Wharton is a finance school. They\u2019re quick to point out that they\u2019re  more than that, but the core strength, and the interest of the majority  of their students, remains in the world of finance. They send large  numbers of graduates into investment banking, portfolio management, and  corporate finance, and place a few here and there into hedge funds,  private equity, and even sales and trading \u2014 areas that some schools  never place anyone. In fact, Wharton is one of the few schools that  Goldman Sachs recruits at, so if you\u2019re looking to go to Wall Street,  this would be a natural first choice business school for you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You are interested in entrepreneurship.<\/strong> Less  commonly known is that behind finance, entrepreneurship is the most  popular field of study at The Wharton School. Around 20 to 25 graduates  start companies coming out of Wharton every year, and this number is  increasing. Schools like Stanford, Harvard, and even Columbia might give  Wharton a run for its money on the entrepreneurship side, but it\u2019s an  area that is seeing more attention with Wharton\u2019s renewed interest in  innovation and social good.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You have had, or want to have, internationally diverse work experiences. <\/strong>Wharton  loves those multicultural stories in applicant backgrounds. Ex-pat  experience is definitely not required in order to gain an offer from  Wharton, but it never hurts. Just don\u2019t be tempted to try to overstate  your two weeks of European vacation into a \u201cmulticultural experience\u201d;  oftentimes, vacation stories can come across as fairly routine, and  that\u2019s not the level of cultural exposure the adcom values the most. Any  travel to foreign countries is worth mentioning; whether you make it a  cornerstone of your application depends both on the real nature of your  experiences in country, and even more important, any international  flavor to your stated future career goals. (Making these kinds of  strategic decisions about what stories to include and how to position  them is obviously a key benefit of the Veritas Prep admissions  consulting process.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You are changing careers. <\/strong>Wharton is very welcoming  to career changers. If you\u2019re in this position, be sure to highlight  the relevant skills and experience that you bring with you from your  previous life, and show how you will apply those strengths in the new  undertaking you are interested in pursuing after Wharton.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today\u2019s blog post was clipped from our Essential Guide to Wharton, one of 15 guides to the world\u2019s top business schools, available on our site. To download free three reports, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veritasprep.com\/free-annual-reports\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Veritas-New-Logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6721\" title=\"Veritas New Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Veritas-New-Logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wharton is one of the top business schools in the world, and for good reason: Very few schools can match its reputation in finance, and in recent years Wharton\u2019s pace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-school-life","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8914,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions\/8914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}