At Wharton, must take finance ?

Long story short. I'm at Wharton and I am thinking about majoring in entrepreneurship (don't laugh) instead of finance. It seems like 80 % of the kids here do finance and when I ask everyone says "there is a reason for that" but no one seems to know the reason. I suppose recruiting here is so competitive that if you are not a finance major they have tons of other finance majors to choose from, but at Harvard just about everything is irrelevant as everything else so it does matter or something?

My thinking is if firms hire English majors at Harvard, why wouldn't they hire entrepreneurship majors at Wharton ? Would it look dumb ? Could I still get a banking job with that as my major if I chose to go down that route ?

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Finance concentration at wharton is four courses. If you're in wharton and don't want to take four finance courses, I think that brings your interests into question. I think most people that do things like entrepeneurship or opim or whatever also do finance. The difference between that and say harvard is that harvard students don't have the opportunity to get a finance concentration/major/certification.

 

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