<p>Well… I understand the differences between the two, however, a lot of my essays (not really for penn… but in general) focus a lot on my fascination with the world of commerce… but I’ve marked econ as my intended major… How do I go about conveying my interest in econ (analyzing social phenonemena etc etc not just business) when most of the essay concerns itself with the business aspect of the major…</p>
<p>mm… sorry if the question is worded a bit weird…</p>
<p>well, i got a B in econ</p>
<p>I think that potentially they may mark you as a backdoor Wharton candidate, if that is the case.</p>
<p>I can’t be sure though.</p>
<p>^no
I honestly wouldn’t worry about it too much, if you want to do econ, well that happens to include lots of business elements. just make sure you make it clear you are interested in the study of economics. if that happens to overlap with business talk, then so be it, they’re not going to judge and say you are a backdoor candidate. Plenty of people major in econ in the college, because the two are disticntly different (I think the only econ courses wharton people take are intro micro and macro, and that’s it. econ majors have all their courses in econ, pretty much.)</p>
<p>Just curious, what are you basing your post on? How do you know that “they’re not going to judge and say you are a backdoor candidate”?</p>
<p>how do you know they are?</p>
<p>It is common knowledge that Penn Admissions does not like backdoor applicants to Wharton. From my experience, this is likely to happen to this applicant. Usually, econ applicants stress the value of a full liberal arts education.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with Econ. Econ is one of the biggest undergraduate departments at Penn in terms of the number of students.</p>