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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with the other alums who've posted - also an alum - only think I'll add is it is NOT a learning for learning sake kind of school. I only went to Penn so IDK how the other ivys are but it's my impression that at other ivys people take art history or sociology or whatever because they WANT TO. At Penn you really don't do that. I mean sure there are people who'll major in art history or sociology or whatever, but the majority of the school is very pre professional so you think a lot about what you're taking/how it looks on a transcript/how it advances your resume.

I took exactly 2 liberal arts classes my entire time there - art history and sociology - because I was required to; otherwise as a finance major coming in with AP credit, I used all the APs to get out of languages, science etc and for my other required liberal arts classes, I'd take economics (which falls in SAS not Wharton). But eventually there comes a time where not ALL your required arts classes can be from one department so I had to pick something else.

At the time I did not care - as pre professional as they come. Now at age 50 it's like WTF, when else but college can you take that arabic class just bc you want to try it for one semester!?[/quote]

I don’t see what’s wrong with this. The purpose of college is upward mobility — not to take useless BS classes like Arabic or Art History. [/quote]

Ha ha ha ha.

--art history major with dream job[/quote]

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