Early Decision Dilemma : UPenn Business or Economics?

<p>I know there have been threads on CAS vs Wharton, but I'd just like your thoughts for my situation specifically.
My main dilemma is that I love some aspects of business such as marketing, but not finance. However, I am also a very social science-oriented person.
I also would like to have a job with decent-pay when I graduate, so that I can save up to a business MBA (my dream).
Some people have said that getting a business undergraduate degree is not as preferable as other degrees, and that non-business majors can still find jobs relatively easily in businesses.
From what I heard, business majors who haven't had business-experience yet do not learn as much in college since they do not have any business to apply their learning to.</p>

<p>In other colleges, I would've gone straight to the social sciences because of this lack of application, but the complication comes in that Wharton has an APPLIED economics degree.</p>

<p>So below are my choices:
1) Apply Wharton (cross fingers and hope), and dual degree business and anthropology, minor in foreign language
2) Apply CAS (which I heard is easier to get into?) and dual degree business and anthropology, minor in foreign language
3) Apply CAS and dual degree anthropology and economics. </p>

<p>Would getting a dual degree in Economics and Anthro, and not even thinking about Wharton, be more preferable than Anthro and Business? I love social sciences, but business is practical, and I can learn to love all aspects of business (finance included) just as much.
So you may ask, why is business grad your dream school? Because I really want to create my own NGO and business to help hospital children in the future (I'm really passionate about this), and business would help me achieve that. </p>

<p>I probably have little chance at Wharton, but more so in CAS. </p>

<p>Thank you so much! You are greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>If you apply ED to Wharton, make sure you demonstrate an interest in business. If you can’t, apply to CAS. I’ve seen kids rejected from Wharton even though they had tippy top scores and great ECs, but they didn’t have anything that related to business.</p>