Humanities Majors
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Anonymous
| Is sociology a popular major? |
Anonymous
| Depends on the school. And it falls under "social sciences" rather than "humanities." |
Anonymous
| Popular for people who want to have high student loan debt and no job, lmao. |
Anonymous
| Sure. My last three baristas had sociology degrees. My tips (and soon taxes) are paying off their student debt. |
Anonymous
harsh, but true. Sociology majors usually need a masters degree to get a decent paying job. |
Anonymous
easy to switch when you get to college people... |
Anonymous
What is true humanities? everyone says there's an advantage to being a classics, English, gender studies or philosophy major in the app process. True or false? |
Anonymous
BINGO! For those looking for an edge, my social sciences (history, sociology, or poli sci) kid got into a competitive STEM-heavy school. He was an "academic diversity" applicant 😉 according to AO. Srsly, they said they were low on non-STEM boys. He's adding business minor 2nd year. Undergrad is the new high school. Get in first. Judge later. |
Anonymous
Its not about popularity but studying what interests you and adding marketable minor and extracurriculars to strengthen your resume. |
Anonymous
Girls do this all the time at Stanford for CS...they have the background/ECs and LOR to be a history or english major (and don't list all their CS awards on the activities sheet) and then get a double major (or switch entirely) at Stanford....its a known thing. https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/path-not-set |
Anonymous
um.. ok, but clearly they didn't switch to a STEM major. They minored in business; that's not STEM. It would be incredibly difficult to switch to a highly competitive STEM major from a humanities major in some of those schools. For example, if you go in as a sociology major to UMD and try to switch to CS major, that would be extremely difficult, more like "not happening". |
Anonymous
Its definitely a more populated major than others. Sara Harberson in AN spends a good deal of time trying to pick the "ideal" major for her clients bc picking the "wrong" one will make your chances harder, while picking the "right" one can make it slightly easier. She looks through your background/classes/ECs/grades/LOR teachers etc to figure out the right story. |
Anonymous
Not at stanford...and several other places... |
Anonymous
There's a lot of incomplete info here. Look at the data. Much easier at some schools than others. ofc probably easier at the most selective schools (Brown, Stanford) so your kid needs an uber competitive T10 application with all of the EC/award bells and whistles that are in a different subject/academic area than CS. Only works for kids with real varied interests. Or those that start in 9th grade with this strategy. Or private HS kids with access to lead 3-4 clubs due to school size etc. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/changing-to-computer-science |
Anonymous
? That's why I stated "some of those schools". It's easier to switch at a smaller private, not so much at a larger public. |