<p>Not at all momofapplicant. </p>
<p>What I object to is investing my precious time developing students who don’t really want to be engineers and plan to bolt as soon as wall st comes a calling but before I’ve gotten any return on my investment. </p>
<p>I find a true sign of deep interest in engineering is taking advanced engineering electives beyond what’s required. If you don’t have to take it, but just want to anyway because you’re genuinely interested, that’s a good sign to me. On the other hand, if all of your electives are taken up by management, finance or advanced economics classes, that says something else to me. It says that hardcore engineering is not what you’d like to be doing. Nothing wrong with that, but if I can find talented engineers who want to be engineers, why wouldn’t I prefer that.</p>