History Major at Penn?

45_Percenter
Mon, 07 Aug 2017 23:32:30 +0000

@Cue7 I think you may be missing my point. First, only 30% of Wharton undergrads pursue dual degree programs, and that includes the coordinated dual degree programs with all 3 of the other undergrad schools–CAS, SEAS, and Nursing. So at most, there may be 200 or so Wharton undergrads pursuing uncoordinated dual degrees at any given time and, of course, only a portion of those are with CAS. Which means we’re probably talking about 100-200 Wharton undergrads pursuing uncoordinated dual degrees with CAS. Given that there are 6300-6400 undergrads in CAS, that additional 100-200 Wharton uncoordinated dual degree students is really negligible for purposes of this discussion. And even if we include them, for purposes of their liberal arts majors, they’re essentially CAS students since they must complete the entire CAS curriculum to earn a BA. So it’s not as if the 1800 or so Wharton undergrads, and for that matter the 600 Nursing undergrads and 1700 SEAS undergrads, all have the option of pursuing a liberal arts major such as History. Only the 6300-6400 CAS students have the option of pursuing a liberal arts major, plus perhaps a couple of hundred dual degree students from the other undergrad schools who, as I said, are essentially CAS students for the purposes of pursing their liberal arts majors and degrees. So again, when we analyze the relative popularity of various liberal arts majors at Penn, we’re looking at a population of about 6500 undergrads who can and do choose from among those majors, just as similar numbers of students at Brown, Harvard, Duke, etc. choose from those and similar majors. And to compare the popularity of certain liberal arts majors at Penn with their popularity at other schools, it’s only the 6500 liberal arts students at Penn who are relevant. Including Wharton, SEAS, and Nursing students in the denominator just doesn’t make sense, since they cannot even CHOOSE those majors (with the exception of the relatively small number of dual degree students). That would not be an apples-to-apples comparison.