<p>amazing these two (mis)perceptions: “A preprofessional at Penn I perceive as: Someone who is very much concerned about finding the highly regarded/high paying jobs and takes easy courses that get them there. They are very concerned about finding internships. They usually don’t take classes for the sake of learning.”</p>
<p>so after grad you’ll make the big money if you studied the easy stuff - great! forget engineering, med / law / business school and go for what you really like…duh, what? </p>
<p>“A scholar in my definition is: someone who is isn’t all too concerned about finding jobs. Takes classes because they want to learn something, usually challenges themselves, isn’t obsessed about networking, competitive but collaborative as well. That’s not to say that they don’t worry about their future. Scholars at Penn know that they are smart and realize that they don’t need to obsess about jobs/internships.”</p>
<p>maybe why the fed quit forgiving college loans - too many “scholars” couldn’t repay 'em</p>
<p>This thread and the quality responses it has gotten are long overdue, and should really be made a sticky in this forum.</p>
<p>What kind of employer is going to hire somebody who only takes intro (I guess what is meant by “easy”) classes and, therefore, will clearly not be as knowledgeable about a field? This definition (and arbitrary distinction) continues to make no practical sense.</p>
<p>Intellectualism is a waste of time for me.</p>
<p>*Probably applying ED to UPenn</p>
<p>It is one of the only places I have heard entering freshmen talking about their starting salaries on wall street.</p>
<p>Yes - it’s not about the the path, but about the job at the end. In that regard, it has a lot of students who are very, very pre-professional.</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with this, if this is the learning environment you want. Different strokes for different folks.</p>
<p>^first day of nso. ppl were convinced that they wanted to do ibanking. 75% didnt know what it was</p>
<p>I didn’t know what it was. I thought it was some new Apple product, but once I found out what it was I lost all interest in the subject, as the majority of Penn students do.</p>