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[quote=Anonymous]13:07 here -- agree with the two PPs above. I and my classmates who loved Wharton/Penn were insanely competitive people. As much as Penn acts as a social Ivy etc. (and it is social) -- it is a place for a certain kind of person who thrives on competition starting with the Wharton curve of 20-25% As and all the way through recruiting etc. I agree that the pressure to get internships is all the way through -- not just junior/senior. It's just that I knew liberal arts people who held on to what they wanted as frosh/soph. I.E. if they had always dreamed of being journalists and they got an internship at a TV station in Florida for their first two summers, they were running with it. It's just that by the time they came back as juniors, saw that all their other liberal arts friends were suddenly in a frenzy re management consulting or bond trading or whatever, they suddenly started to re consider whether they should do that for the money, "prestige" etc. instead of pursuing their own dream which will have them bouncing from station to station for far less money.

I think Penn is a fine place if you're: (i) Wharton; (ii) non Wharton and you don't care a bit what the business world will afford you; or (iii) pre professional in another way -- pre med, engineering etc. I think Penn is a hard place to be a liberal arts person who is using college to figure out what they want bc you will ultimately end up wanting what everyone around you wants -- and then 5 yrs later you may wonder how the hell you ended up in investment banking.[/quote]

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