<p>To employers, does econ take a back seat to Wharton students? Is econ viewed as the major for kids who could not get into Wharton. Are they treated as second class students compared to kids in the business school or are they equal in their own way.</p>
<p>equal in their own way</p>
<p>Definitely equal in their own way. Wharton is Wharton, but Penn has one of the finest Econ programs in the country. A strong econ student has ridiculous options coming from Penn.</p>
<p>The obsession over this distinction is a CC phenomenon. Once you get to Penn you’re too busy to notice, and you’re in most of the same classes anyway. Jealous CAS students can look for ways in which they are being slighted. I tell them “well you could always have gone to BROWN.”</p>
<p>We had a good laugh on that one.</p>
<p>I feel like most Econ majors just have different personalities than most Wharton students. Econ majors are closer to other Liberal Arts students and really don’t know what they want and are balancing graduating plans between things like a job, law school, med school (fair number of econ major premeds) and graduate school. Most Wharton students know that they want a job in the business world when the graduate and hit the ground running. That sets you up better for a job in the future. I do know a history major with better internship offers this year than several of my Wharton friends because he is the type to hit the ground running but loves history too much to study anything else as an undergrad.</p>
<p>Bagels, that’s cruel… ;)</p>
<p>Venkat, totally agree from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>You guys still here? Seniors now?</p>
<p>bagels is an alum. I’m a junior. Some actual Penn students need to be on CC or mass amounts of misinformation will be spread.</p>
<p>agreed</p>
<p>and definitely not backseating</p>
<p>It’s okay, I’ll be back soon enough ;)</p>
<p>Wharton MBA or Penn JD? Or shall you go for the trifecta in the JD/MBA/MD? 9 glorious years of professional school before you have to leave Penn for good and be a real adult.</p>
<p>No, then I become faculty ;)</p>