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I see this comment a lot.  Not usually about Penn but certainly about a lot of other schools.  What does this mean exactly?  It is clear that "pre-professional" is seen as a negative, but why is that?  I mean medicine, law, finance etc are all 'professional' fields.  Folks seem to be happy if their kids are going to be lawyers or doctors or financiers.  What is the opposite of pre-professional?  To me that would be something like a liberal arts focus but that is generally looked down by DCUMers.  Can someone clear this up?

I went to JHU which I would definitely describe as pre-professional, and I would say it means education is a means to an end (grad/professional school) etc vs an end in itself. When I took my dd on college visits I guessed she would want an environment that was academic more than it was pre-professional.  So for example a school like Georgetown really showed off its internship/job placement (pre-professional data vs another school of comparable prestige that focused on its curriculum and educational philosophy.  That sort of thing.[/quote]

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