Holden Leder/Week 2 - Why I Want to Attend the Wharton School of Business

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Why I Want to Attend the Wharton School of Business



This past March, I was accepted into a two-week finance program at the Wharton School of Business. Ever since I became interested in business and finance in middle school, attending Wharton has been my primary goal after graduating from high school. I knew I wanted to go there, but I didn't exactly know what I had been wanting, until this summer. Once I got there, everything clicked: the people, the professors, the environment. It was all I imagined and much more. Wharton is considered by USNews to be the best business school and was the first business school in the United States. Among its extremely successful alumni who are at the forefront of the business world, some notable figures are Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and Elon Musk. Having the opportunity to attend this school would give me access to a world-renowned business education, access to a highly influential alumni and speaker network, and getting to interact with hundreds of like-minded students. I was fortunate to be able to get a taste of that this summer, where I clicked with and made close relationships with some really interesting and smart kids. Some of them already asked me to work on any venture I explore in the future! Also, getting to interact with Wharton professors like Dr. Michael Roberts and Dr. Ethan Mollick was very interesting and I hope to be able to take one of their classes as an undergraduate or graduate student. Since my freshman year of high school, and especially now, I have committed myself to work as hard as I can to take as many academically rigorous courses as I possibly can, all with the end goal of being admitted to Wharton. I have also used my "free time" to build a website where I can post my financial research and create with Donna Klein Rosenblatt High School a signature business program that hopes to collaborate with both Wharton and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan on future projects and to get access to their speaker networks for our program's students. I hope all of my hard work pays off, but there are no guarantees. Guess I'll just have to work harder! Has anyone had a similar experience at a different college program at a school they have dreamed of going to?

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  1. Milo MOctober 26, 2022 at 9:02 AM

    This sounds super interesting, and you seem really passionate about it. I remember when we were in 6th or 7th grade, you knew you wanted to go to business school, so it's super cool to see you actually doing that now.

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