Penn or Brown? NOT a chances thread

45_Percenter
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:43:28 +0000

bb, don’t buy into that “preprofessional school like Penn” myth. Remember, there are over 6,000 kids in Penn’s College or Arts and Sciences, and they are, for the most part, just as uncertain of their future career plans as the kids at Brown. But one advantage they have is that they can, e.g., sample a few courses at Wharton to see how they like Management, or Finance, or whatever, while still pursuing their liberal arts program with many outstanding departments in the College (from colonial US history to economics to anthropology–PHENOMENAL archaeology/anthropology museum, by the way–to psychology–Cognitive Therapy was developed at Penn–these and many other liberal arts departments at Penn are among the best rated in the US).

Both Brown and Penn are terrific schools with lots to offer, but don’t assume that Penn is all about Wharton and preprofessionalism. It’s not, and you should really try to get in touch with some kids in the College to find out what it’s like for them. Maybe you can arrange to visit both Brown and Penn again in the Fall to do just that.