<p>I want to major in marketing. I know it is bound to change but I really am interested in marketing.</p>
<p>So I applied to CAS (because I didn't feel smart enough for Wharton), and I was accepted.</p>
<p>I'm torn between Drexel LeBow business school vs Penn CAS.</p>
<p>What can I do in Penn CAS to make the most out of my desire to major in business? :(</p>
<p>You may be confusing marketing with business. Marketing is just a small subset of the wharton business curriculum; even if you wanted to concentrate in marketing as a wharton student, you would only take like 5 marketing classes (MKTG101 + 4 marketing concentration courses). The rest consists of finance, accounting, legal studies, management, economics, etc. </p>
<p>So if you want all of those business classes, I would recommend LeBow, or you can try to get a 3.7+ and transfer to Wharton after freshman year. Or you can still take the business classes at wharton as a CAS student, and if you are just interested in marketing (and not the other business classes) you can take the marketing courses, and major in something else.</p>
<p>If you’re really interested in marketing, check out the Consumer Psych minor (just google it). you take 4 marketing classes, 4 psychology, and 1 stat course :)</p>
<p>this is not a choice. you can take up to 4 courses in wharton in the college. take 4 marketing courses if you want (about as many as you would take if you were enrolled in wharton). or, as suggested previously, do the consumer psych minor. </p>
<p>penn cas is far superior to drexel’s business school in terms of internship opportunities, prestige, and teaching quality</p>
<p>I had lots of marketing internships and jobs around the world (internships in Singapore and China and a 2-year job in India) with a Penn CAS degree. And they didn’t pick me because I took marketing-101 pass/fail; they picked me because I had a Penn degree, which signaled that I must be smart and awesome, or at least good at having made people think I was (and isn’t that what marketing is all about? 
). And for entry-level marketing jobs (heck, entry-level business jobs in general) they’re just looking for smart people and to give them the training on the job.</p>
<p>Otherwise 100% of Goldman Sachs recruits would be finance/accounting/math majors–and believe me, they’re not.</p>
<p>Penn and Drexel are really incomparable (save for in the realm of engineering).</p>
<p>Do I get to take 4 courses in Wharton each year or in total?
I researched Consumer Psych and I really like it. I applied to CAS under psychology because I love psych also.</p>
<p>I want to go in the advertising/marketing/retail field, but also want to learn business management, finance, etc. Would CAS still be a solid choice for me?</p>
<p>Oh ilovebagels, thanks for that piece of information. I feel like I can make a better choice now. :)</p>
<p>You can take as many classes in Wharton as you want…but only four will count towards your degree/the number of credits you need to graduate. Which isn’t by any means terrible, considering most CAS majors only require 32 credits to graduate, so you could theoretically take 12 Wharton classes and still only take 5 classes a semester (4 to count in those 32 and another 8 that don’t technically count for anything). You might have trouble getting into some of the classes, like Finance, because of Wharton students’ requirements/the popularity of finance as a concentration. Honestly, though, just take some economics classes. If you’re interested in marketing/advertising/retail, a lot of the Wharton classes won’t really get you anywhere…psych and marketing classes and maybe some ‘creative’ ones (creative writing, arts, etc.) will probably get you further.</p>
<p>Oh that sounds really good. I do fine arts. But I want to think further, past undergrad. As of now, I want to go to a business grad school and get my MBA. I don’t know if I would need it now but that’s my plan. That said, would going to CAS hurt that possibility?</p>
<p>As far as I know, going to CAS doesn’t hurt your possibility of getting an MBA. What matters for MBA admissions is gpa, GMAT score, and work experience (most people don’t immediately get an MBA after undergrad). Honestly, it would be a waste of undergrad to go to Wharton and then also get an MBA…there’s so much overlap.</p>
<p>Seriously, if you can afford it, go to Penn CAS. Something I’ve discovered is that most jobs (outside of very technical ones) don’t care what your major is.</p>
<p>Yes, Penn CAS gave me a very generous financial aid packet. I think I am going to take your advice and see when Penn leads me. Now that I know I can get a job if I work hard at Penn, I feel secure. At least many subjects in CAS can be incorporated in marketing.</p>
<p>Thank you scribbler91, and the others.</p>
<p>After Penn CAS I worked for 2 years and then made a hail mary application to HBS. Did the whole thing (essays, recs, studying/taking GMAT) in 33 days from start to finish. I didn’t get into HBS, but with less than 1/2 the median work experience and a crappy GMAT score, I still got to the interview round, which means I beat out ~80% of the applicants. So yeah, I don’t think they sat there in the HBS admissions office thinking “well he’s close… if only he went to Wharton instead of CAS…”</p>
<p>edit: what I’m trying to say is it’s not even a matter of Penn CAS helping me. What matters is work experience, and mine was pretty damn awesome.</p>
<p>That’s what worries me. I’m worried that I won’t have time to either work, or end up with a useless job like waiting tables rather than an academically rich job. May I ask what work experience you had while at Penn and what was your major?</p>
<p>im in worthgold’s exact position. I got accepted into Penn CAS and my major will be Econ. But I want to work in finance, banking, consulting…would CAS hurt me or help me compared to attending either Cornell (CAS), or Emory or Georgia Tech in my home state.</p>
<p>this January/February during OCR I interviewed for a lot of management consulting positions. Tons of the kids who also got interviews had majors that were completely unrelated to business (a couple english majors, lots of political science, history, etc.). Of course there were also a lot of econ majors and a lot of Wharton kids. </p>
<p>Banking is a little more difficult at least for OCR if you aren’t in Wharton, but econ/math background and a good GPA will get you some interviews for sure</p>
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<p>Summer internships, man!</p>
<p>summer after freshman year - teaching English in Korea (hey with only 1 year of school it’s a great opportunity)</p>
<p>summer after sophomore year - internship with event marketing company in Singapore</p>
<p>summer after junior year - internship with Apple Inc in their Beijing office doing Asia-Pac marketing</p>
<p>summer after senior year - wait no, that’s graduating. I went to India to work for 2 years for the Mahindra Group in their spiffy Global Recruit Program (in which they grab a handful of Ivy grads and throw them into India for a 2 year management rotation thang).</p>