<p>Thanks for all the responses. Operation “Convince Parents” will begin if I get in. </p>
<p>Ilovebagels: I didn’t realize CAS kids made more; that’ll prolly make my parents happy</p>
<p>legendofmax: trapped as in you would rather have a degree in something other than business?</p>
<p>Also, I’m Chinese. Thus so are my parents. They don’t know that much about universities other than harvard, pton, yale, columbia, northwestern, uchicago, berkeley, stanford, mit. They also know the name wharton. Their problem with penn CAS is that they think nobody in China knows what Penn is (can anyone disprove this?). And the thing with Chinese parents is that college is all about honor and how much bragging they can do about you. </p>
<p>My parents priorities in finding a college:
- how good it makes our family look that I went to (insert prestigious college)
- how much money i can make afterwards
- how much the college will cost
- how good THEY think the location is; for some reason they are really turned off by Philly even though I really like it (but I’m the one that has to live there…)
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1009999. how much i like the college.</p>
<p>that’s the problem with trying to convince them with anything other than prestige so i’m gonna have to prove that Penn (not wharton) is prestigious. i guess I’ll start with the employment statistics & go from there.</p>