What’s Your Fantasy?
Pictured below are the results of a survey conducted by Princeton Review, determining the dream colleges of applicants and their parents. But while Penn ranks at #6 on the parents’ list of dream schools, it appears that students just aren’t really feelin’ us.
We’re not exactly sure how to cope with this deep hit to our ego, but to put things in perspective, Hogwarts made neither list, so…yeah. Moral of the story: Kids, listen to your parents! They know what’s good for you!
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By C '13 on April 9, 2012 at 6:03 pm
I don’t know why they would. I feel like I’m wasting time and money in the classrooms here.
^lol obviously, you’re in the college.
^ lol probably doing something useless in the college. ie. liberal arts.
If you feel like you’re wasting time and money here, why would you not simply transfer? This is a lot of money and very valuable time to apparently be perfectly fine with wasting.
Of all the schools of Penn, the college is the most valid. Wharton may have the hype but there is truly no reason to get a undergraduate degree in business. The college is looked down upon because of its less tangible provisions but it truly educates a person. Our society strangely has a disdain for vocational schools and yet expects people to leave college with job training as opposed to an ability to understand the world. The College does not teach a world view but it provides students with skills to interpret the world in which they are engaged and it does so in a way Wharton, engineering, and nursing all ignore.
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@@Stephen: I’m not going to contest your view that “the college is the most valid” since that’s obviously a normative statement, and you’re entitled to hold that view. As for “skills to interpret the world”, I would argue that the quantitative analytical skills emphasized in engineering are just as applicable — and that the social science & humanities electives (in addition to the electives that some of us take voluntarily) are sufficient to complement the STEM side of our education.
I contest that engineering ignores the training of “skills to interpret the world.”
Besides, if we are really including “all the schools of Penn”, maybe we should take a look at the 8 non-undergraduate schools. Surely the School of Social Policy & Practice, or the Law School, aren’t merely training students for vocations, but also for an approach to understanding the world?
That being said, I disagree with King’s allegation that liberal arts are useless.