<p>^ dancingdoctor, as I recall, you’re a freshman in the Nursing School? While everything may have been about landing a job in your one semester in the Nursing School :), there are 6400 undergrads in the College whose general level of preprofessional interest is quite comparable to that at the other Ivies (and other top schools). While Nursing and Wharton certainly impact the preprofessional atmosphere on Penn’s campus (as discussed in several posts above), the career placement statistics for the College are quite similar to those of the undergraduate liberal-arts components of the other Ivies (several of which are significantly smaller than Penn’s College). The types and distribution of majors among students in Penn’s College are also comparable to those in the other Ivy undergraduate liberal-arts components.</p>
<p>Not to nit-pick, but I think that Penn’s 6400 liberal-arts undergrads sometimes get a bum rap as supposedly more “preprofessional” (whatever that means) than their counterparts at other Ivies, and I think that’s neither fair nor accurate. Again, that peception is no doubt due to the presence of Wharton and Nursing, but I find it hard to believe that the undergrads at Dartmouth or Princeton, for example, are generally less “preprofessional” than the 6400 undergrads in Penn’s College.</p>