Is Penn TOO Corporate?

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@mattwonder

Once you expand your definition to include pre-med, pre-law, and pre-business - heck anyone who's got their 5-year plan laid out - it can definitely seem like a tough place. Everyone's on their way to something bigger and better, and its a rare chance to talk with a peer about a subject that hasn't already been decided. I wouldn't say penn is too "corporate" but I would say that most of the student body has plans for post-graduation and god help you if you get in their way.</p>

<p>It's hard to say why the culture is like this - why a fried of mine asked me, on the first day of classes freshman year, where I planned to go for grad school. Maybe it's the 200k+ expense, or maybe it's the high expectations of parents that drives us to live according to a plan like that.

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<p>Isn't this basically true at all top schools? It's difficult to believe that kids who've pushed hard all their lives to be able to get into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. have suddenly STOPPED thinking about their futures once they get into college, or that they do so less than kids at Penn. That just doesn't make sense.</p>