Why would non-one percent families let their kids major in the humanities?

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

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I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college.

Depends on what you mean by poor. I know many college grads who have to commute hr plus to afford a house or live in apartments because that’s all they can afford. They aren’t “poor” but the typical middle class American dream is out of reach, even into their 30s and 40s.

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

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I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college.

Depends on what you mean by poor. I know many college grads who have to commute hr plus to afford a house or live in apartments because that’s all they can afford. They aren’t “poor” but the typical middle class American dream is out of reach, even into their 30s and 40s.

Right, most millennials are unfortunately downwardly mobile. Majoring in something employable is one way to prevent, or at least, slow down that process.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just graduated with a humanities degree. Next week we're moving him to start at a Top 6 law school where he got a full scholarship.

Why don't you just mind your own business and let people do what they think is right for them?

Just wondering, how did he get a scholarship to a T6 law school? Nearly all the lawyers we know are drowning in student debt.

NP. NYU gives full scholarships to 11% of the class, so likely those with HYS numbers and strong soft factors.

https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/NYULaw-ABA-509-Standard-Information-Report.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just graduated with a humanities degree. Next week we're moving him to start at a Top 6 law school where he got a full scholarship.

Why don't you just mind your own business and let people do what they think is right for them?

Just wondering, how did he get a scholarship to a T6 law school? Nearly all the lawyers we know are drowning in student debt.

NP. NYU gives full scholarships to 11% of the class, so likely those with HYS numbers and strong soft factors.

https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/NYULaw-ABA-509-Standard-Information-Report.pdf

The real cost of law school is opportunity time — 3 years during an important part of your career wasting away in an institution with shit career prospects seems unwise to me, even if on a full scholarship.