<p>What majors rank above most others here? I'm a Comm major, but it doesn't command near the respect of Wharton and I get a little sick of it.</p>
<p>Wharton is a school, not a major. There is no universal hierarchy of majors.</p>
<p>That being said, communications is probably as close to universally mocked as you are going to get. To wit: the collegehumor’s guide to college, titled “Sleeping with your professors, selling your kidneys for beer money, majoring in communications, and other really good ideas”</p>
<p>too lazy but theres a penn site that breaks down majors each year</p>
<p>maybe theyre too ashamed of their tooledness but i have the feeling there are ALOT of history/poly sci majors making their way to law school. these majors can be easy if you want them to be, or you can really use them to become a greater thinker/master debater</p>
<p>bbb/chem is common for serious premeds</p>
<p>econ is very common, although the students are rather diverse in how the pursue majors and careers applied econ for wall street and data/number crunching, and the crazy theoretical stuff (tricking you into a math major an econ friend told me)</p>
<p>East Asian studies I’d say split down the middle between asian people studying it for the (relatively) easy grades and the non-asians who think their asian. noticeable, but not many</p>
<p>English majors, many varied paths after grad
PPE, much of the same thing, both majors send a bit into consulting business world</p>
<p>and ofcourse all the flotsam and jetsam majors like africana studies, geology, visual studies, etc… wonder what theyre smoking</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/2007cpsurvey.pdf[/url]”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/2007cpsurvey.pdf</a></p>
<p>BBB, Biology, Communications, Economics, English, History, IR, PPE, Political Science, and Psychology are the most popular</p>
<p>Bagels,
First off, I know Wharton’s a school and not a major. Secondly if there’s no hierarchy that’s all I needed to know (not that I didn’t know anyway), who gives a hoot about collegehumor or universally mocked. </p>
<p>And Ming, what’s wrong with studying where human existence and civilization started (Africana Studies)?</p>
<p>And thanx for the info theone.</p>
<p>It’s Meng, not Ming.And I’d say the problem is more that what you described is anthropology. Africana studies, like most majors that have “studies” affixed to their name, tends to have some pieces of serious anthropology wedged in between massive amounts of hot air on imperialism, colonialism, post-colonialism, fetishizing of victims, all topped off with a hearty helping of Marxism and anti-Western sentiment.</p>
<p>yay anthropology 4 lyfe</p>
<p>“It’s Meng, not Ming.And I’d say the problem is more that what you described is anthropology. Africana studies, like most majors that have “studies” affixed to their name, tends to have some pieces of serious anthropology wedged in between massive amounts of hot air on imperialism, colonialism, post-colonialism, fetishizing of victims, all topped off with a hearty helping of Marxism and anti-Western sentiment.”</p>
<p>Hey bagels,
I know how to spell just fine. But apparently from your last post YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!</p>
<p>there is never ‘truth’ in history. only what was chosen to be written down.</p>
<p>s.dot, don’t take out the fact that you’re black on us.</p>
<p>sincerely,</p>
<p>Ming</p>
<p>LOL…all those X studies=BS degree ( and I don’t mean a bachelor in science lol). Study something worthwhile. Don’t waste your parents’ money.</p>
<p>in defense of repressed minority angst seething through s.dot,</p>
<p>i have to say, the caveat to the value of X-studies is that if you learn one or more ‘foreign’ languages very well, it automatically opens up doors in government and industry, say in the plundering of African countries for their resources or engaging Asia in its economic boom. you get the idea ;)</p>
<p>“i have to say, the caveat to the value of X-studies is that if you learn one or more ‘foreign’ languages very well, it automatically opens up doors in government and industry, say in the plundering of African countries for their resources or engaging Asia in its economic boom. you get the idea”</p>
<p>Goodie!! Does this mean the rebirth of the Ming dynasty?</p>
<p>yeah…sorry dude, s.dot, that makes no sense. Nice try at being funny though…persistence is the key. Either that, or actual comic talent, but yeah..whatever.</p>
<p>everybody knows the Tang dynasty was better than the Ming anyway</p>
<p>I do love that tang, oh so much</p>