Wharton Going Public?

There is an interesting article in the Wharton Journal about the school’s recent unveiling of a new loan-fogiveness fund for graduates who enter the public sector. The school will be looking to award $10,000/year (for up to 5 years) to a select group of students who demonstrate a committment to public and non-profit “managerial leadership”. Wharton’s program is helping the school to further bolster this developing area, but the article also includes a frank discussion of the programs on offer at Stanford GSB and Harvard Business School, citing the large endowments that have enabled those school’s to easily offer similar funding in the past.

In other admissions-related news, there is continued talk of Jerome Karabel‘s book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Most recently, David Brooks of the New York Times gave it a book review, highlighting the book’s unmasking of changes in the Ivy League admissions process over the last 100+ years. For more background on this, see our earlier analysis.