How does Wharton and Stanford fare against each other with parties, girls, etc.

I’m currently stuck on Stanford and Penn waitlist but I should be getting a decision in the coming weeks. A couple of days ago, I posted a thread asking about their OCR, prestige, and placement the comments were pretty split. College isn’t all about IB/PE so which school has better parties, hotter girls, and better vibe in general.

I’m talking about Undergrad

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You probably won’t get off either waitlist, so it seems like a waste to get your hopes up 

 

Tbh I’m choosing Wharton because you’re in middle of philly so you pretty much access to girls from temple and from the city itself whereas at Stanford you’re in Menlo Park where the avg age is 40 and half the girls are lame ass 5s who don’t fuck after the date. Plus a lot of PE firms like Blackstone, silver lake recruit from Wharton 

 
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I’ll do anything to work at Blackstone man, Ive recently started watching a ton of their YouTube videos and  I cant wait to take that dark filter photo and use it as my LinkedIn profile picture.

 
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Don't understand how anyone would turn down Stanford unless it's for Harvard. You can get the same IB (and PE too) opportunities from any top school. KKR and SLP will recruit at Stanford just like they would recruit at Wharton, but you're also exposed to the rarest, coolest exclusive opportunities in Silicon Valley. Not to mention that you're still in high school and whatever you think, you don't know 100% you'll stick with finance for your life, so Stanford preserves your optionality because they do so well in everything. 

 

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