Visit to Wharton
I finally got chance to visit Wharton…and oh boy what a feeling it was..I drove from NJ ( New Jersey) to Philly and on the whole drive I was just thinking whether I will be here in some months or not…in just a matter of time this question will be answered…
Just thinking and talking of what all I will do in this visit here came Philly….from a distance I could see the Benjamin Franklin bridge and slowly I was meandering the in the cozy and old fashioned streets of Philadelphia…. Then came on the walnut street where the mecca is located The Wharton School. I looked up the building and the circular cylindrical structure of the Huntsman hall just took me off to think what would be the feel if I come here back again and then graduate and then come back again for alumni meets and reunions….
Unfortunately I went at a time when there were no classes and all the students have gone to enjoy the break which doesn’t come so often...Just at the security gate met the security office and way he talked and met us I felt so the mesmerizing effect of Wharton is in the air…that guy was working in the place continuously for last 17 hrs..that made me to think is this happens here are all the people leave aside MBA students who work crazy here…then I moved towards the admission hall and met a sweet lady there….she was very polite as I have heard are the staff at Wharton and told us that the info session will be at 3 pm. We tried to make the best use of 2-3 hrs we had before info session by just going around the school and if possible catch hold of some grad students.
Fortunately we met an Indian student who will be graduating this year…that’s good luck…I just started talking to him and told him that we are prospective students and whether he can spare some time with us…and as I had expected he was so kind, he took us to the cafeteria and was open to all of our questions…
We shooted our question on after the other and he answered them in a very plain and clear language …he was easy enough to say I don’t know anything on this rather than just giving some funde…anyways most of the question we had were subjective I,e the answer would start from “it depends” but still taking his perspective was helpful.
After that we just started wandering the school saw some classes though empty and thinking when I will be sitting in one of these classes and excelling…I guess that’s more important. As it was graduation day on Sunday and also an alumni reunions there were many people around and whatever students were there, were with their parents…so could not get much chance to speak to more people…anyways thought of strolling down the street and visit the other building of Wharton where the finance major is situated…On the way met Benjamin Franklin and also took some snaps with the dude…then came back to attend the info session … while waiting Thomas Caleel the Dean of admissions office came and met us…it was nice to meet him as I had read and see about him so much on the Wharton website…he told us that he is busy with R3 decisions …I though oh man that is what I am here for can you please tell me my result right now so that I can go happy from Philly….but anyways I have to wait till 17th .. then a nice lady came and took us to a room and started the talk…Nothing new was there in it as It was the same ppt as I saw on the website and which Wharton gives in all its info sessions…also I don’t think I got any new information from that info session apart from the fact that in GMAT they mainly see that one must have min 80% percentile in both quant and verbal…
So that was it talk wads over in 30-45 min and we started to pack up things and drive back to NJ …then as were doing some photo session I met with a India student graduating in 2007 and who was a admission committee member….so I thought that was it this is the person I need to get contact ….but as he was with his family could not talk to him much but toll his business card and will buzz him sometime (Networking is the key…always)
So that was the tour…though in terms of information I don’t think I got anything new from what I already knew about Wharton but I am sure it gave me a feel that I would love to come back to this place and have fun…
Overall I would say it was quite a motivating visit for me…
Just thinking and talking of what all I will do in this visit here came Philly….from a distance I could see the Benjamin Franklin bridge and slowly I was meandering the in the cozy and old fashioned streets of Philadelphia…. Then came on the walnut street where the mecca is located The Wharton School. I looked up the building and the circular cylindrical structure of the Huntsman hall just took me off to think what would be the feel if I come here back again and then graduate and then come back again for alumni meets and reunions….
Unfortunately I went at a time when there were no classes and all the students have gone to enjoy the break which doesn’t come so often...Just at the security gate met the security office and way he talked and met us I felt so the mesmerizing effect of Wharton is in the air…that guy was working in the place continuously for last 17 hrs..that made me to think is this happens here are all the people leave aside MBA students who work crazy here…then I moved towards the admission hall and met a sweet lady there….she was very polite as I have heard are the staff at Wharton and told us that the info session will be at 3 pm. We tried to make the best use of 2-3 hrs we had before info session by just going around the school and if possible catch hold of some grad students.
Fortunately we met an Indian student who will be graduating this year…that’s good luck…I just started talking to him and told him that we are prospective students and whether he can spare some time with us…and as I had expected he was so kind, he took us to the cafeteria and was open to all of our questions…
We shooted our question on after the other and he answered them in a very plain and clear language …he was easy enough to say I don’t know anything on this rather than just giving some funde…anyways most of the question we had were subjective I,e the answer would start from “it depends” but still taking his perspective was helpful.
After that we just started wandering the school saw some classes though empty and thinking when I will be sitting in one of these classes and excelling…I guess that’s more important. As it was graduation day on Sunday and also an alumni reunions there were many people around and whatever students were there, were with their parents…so could not get much chance to speak to more people…anyways thought of strolling down the street and visit the other building of Wharton where the finance major is situated…On the way met Benjamin Franklin and also took some snaps with the dude…then came back to attend the info session … while waiting Thomas Caleel the Dean of admissions office came and met us…it was nice to meet him as I had read and see about him so much on the Wharton website…he told us that he is busy with R3 decisions …I though oh man that is what I am here for can you please tell me my result right now so that I can go happy from Philly….but anyways I have to wait till 17th .. then a nice lady came and took us to a room and started the talk…Nothing new was there in it as It was the same ppt as I saw on the website and which Wharton gives in all its info sessions…also I don’t think I got any new information from that info session apart from the fact that in GMAT they mainly see that one must have min 80% percentile in both quant and verbal…
So that was it talk wads over in 30-45 min and we started to pack up things and drive back to NJ …then as were doing some photo session I met with a India student graduating in 2007 and who was a admission committee member….so I thought that was it this is the person I need to get contact ….but as he was with his family could not talk to him much but toll his business card and will buzz him sometime (Networking is the key…always)
So that was the tour…though in terms of information I don’t think I got anything new from what I already knew about Wharton but I am sure it gave me a feel that I would love to come back to this place and have fun…
Overall I would say it was quite a motivating visit for me…
No comments:
Post a Comment