<p>While most students have some pre-professional motivations (very few would go to college if there were not some “upgrade” in job and career prospects from going to college), the level of pre-professional motivation varies from student to student. Some look at college as purely a means to get a better job, while others have motivations like getting a “well rounded liberal arts education” (however they define that) in addition to pre-professional motivations. (Students applying to graduate and professional study do have pre-professional motivations as undergraduates, since their undergraduate goals including getting into such degree programs.)</p>