I don't have any idea which side of the divide you'd fall on, but when I was in school there was definitely a group of people more likely to say "I'm taking X because it sounds really interesting" and a group of people more likely to say "I'm taking Y because I heard it's an easy A".

Given the timing (tail end of the last bubble), I always thought of the second group as "there for the money".

As with any generalization, it breaks down in plenty of specific cases.