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The high price of college sucks the meaning out of college itself. When we choose our fields of study based on the potential outcomes, we lose the central purpose of selecting a major at all: to narrow down a field we’re truly interested in, and then to push for excellence in that area.


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Sam Vanderhoop Lee and Alex Caplow of Magic Man, the opener of last year's fling, were featured on The Boston Globe's Most Stylish Bostonians.  Speaking about their wardrobes on the road, Vanderhoop Lee, the lead singer, explained that he and Caplow oftentimes trade clothes, mostly black skinny jeans.


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Harvard professor Sendhil Mullainathan is questioning whether students going into finance will make the best use of their talent.  In 2014, one in five Harvard students took a job in the financial sector and this number was bigger for economics majors--one in two students.  Mullainathan explains that "every profession produces both private return--the fruits of labor that a person enjoys--and social returns, those that society enjoys." While finance is usually an industry in which returns are private, he argues, people in the industry can use it for the solve social problems with financial roots, such as saving money for college to insure unemployment risk and going into debt from having to take out loans to support meager paychecks.  "So how should I feel about my students going into finance?




Is it better to get into Penn and exhaust every option to afford it, or is it better to simply get rejected because of your inability to pay? This is a serious question that many international students ask themselves when applying to Penn.