History Major at Penn?

Cue7
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:22:49 +0000

So @“45 Percenter” - when I did my apples to apples comparison between upenn and Princeton in post #9 of this thread (using a 1600 class size for Penn and a 980 class size for Princeton), Penn’s numbers still came out a little low (e.g. 3.6% of CAS majors in history, compared with 8% at Princeton).

This aside, are you sure it’s possible to even do an apples to apples comparison between Penn and Princeton, or Penn and Harvard? Again, these other top schools don’t have four undergrad schools, and, no matter what you use in the denominator, having schools of business or nursing - along with liberal arts and engineering - fundamentally change the complexion of the school.

It’s why no comparison is perfect, but Harvard Princeton etc seem like especially poor comparators to upenn, whereas cornell and northwestern are better.