Penn Core Goals

Last year, I began the college search process, and I felt torn between choosing a school with a strong undergraduate business program and choosing a small liberal arts college, and until I visited the University of Pennsylvania, I thought I must pick between the two. I genuinely enjoy literature and philosophy and aim to become fluent in Spanish, but I am also interested in business and want to become an entrepreneur in the future, and I absolutely love how at Penn I can combine the liberal arts education with the phenomenal business program to create an unmatched educational experience that will actively engage both sides of my brain. The Penn core curriculum will satisfy my desire to improve my writing skills and will greatly increase my …show more content…
My ultimate goal is to start and run my own consulting firm working with aspiring inner-city entrepreneurs in my hometown city, Dallas. While this is my ultimate ambition, I plan on working for an accounting firm or consulting firm directly following college so that I will gain real-world business experience. I am not yet entirely sure what business concentration I will choose, and I love how Wharton will not make me declare my concentration until the end of my sophomore year. This unique policy will allow me to fully explore my academic interests my first two years without being constrained by choosing a concentration before I am ready. No other school that I have visited fits my academic interests better than Penn. Not only will I receive the business and the liberal arts education, but I can also learn in the phenomenal foreign language department and minor in Hispanic studies. The majority of inner-city Dallas residents communicate in Spanish, and therefore I must improve my language abilities to reach my …show more content…
Last year for a class paper, I researched minimum wage legislation and the effects it has on the economy. This experience piqued my interest in the minimum wage debate and it is definitely something I want to research more in-depth in college. Penn and Wharton have many of the top economics and business professors in the world, and I would surely have ample resources to research this topic. Through one of the many research programs, I could examination the minimum wage, and particularly study the influence it has on inner-city workers, with whom I plan to mentor latter through my consulting firm. If given the opportunity, I would love to join the Wharton Summer Program for Undergraduate Research to study the effects of minimum wage legislation on the working class. I have ambitious intellectual interests, and Penn is full of ambitious students. When I visited Penn, I saw students who not only had the intellectual abilities needed to succeed at a top university, but also a passion for transforming communities and for improving their