History Major at Penn?

45_Percenter
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 02:51:30 +0000

@Cue7 I think you’re making this more complicated than it needs to be. Remember that this began as a discussion about liberal arts majors, and whether the more popular liberal arts majors at Penn are significantly different than what are the more popular liberal arts majors at other top schools. So it’s really quite simple: just disregard the non-liberal arts undergrad schools at Penn, and you’re left with the College of Arts and Sciences and its 6300-6500 undergrads. Determine which majors are most popular in the College, as I did in post #11 with the majors chosen by about 75% of students in the College, and compare those to the list of most popular majors in the undergraduate liberal arts component of school X. Obviously, if the total number of liberal arts undergrads is significantly different at school X than the 6300 or so at Penn, the actual numbers would vary accordingly. But my point has been, and remains, that the most popular liberal arts majors at Penn’s peers (Ivies plus), will not differ significantly from the most popular liberal arts majors at Penn. In other words, I doubt that at most of those schools you’d find that there generally are more majors in fields like Classics, Art History, Religion, Music, Anthropology, Physics, Astronomy etc., than there are in Economics, Political Science, Biology, History, English, Psychology, etc. And actually, schools like Harvard, Brown, Duke, etc. make very good comparators to Penn, given that they have roughly the same number of liberal arts undergrads as Penn.