Trying to Find a Balance Between Pre-Professionalism And The Liberal Arts

[Anonymous]

As a HACK grad, most of the top lacs tend to be like this. It's really about being in the right community/group of friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a HACK grad, most of the top lacs tend to be like this. It's really about being in the right community/group of friends.

What is this HACK I keep seeing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a HACK grad, most of the top lacs tend to be like this. It's really about being in the right community/group of friends.

What is this HACK I keep seeing?

It's a made up acronym that popped up on the DCUM forum yesterday- Haverford, Amherst, Colby and Kenyon. Someone has decided they want to make "HACK" a thing, so they keep posting it in all the threads. It's not WASP, people. Sorry, Kenyon is a great little liberal arts school, but it's not really in the same league as Swat, let's be honest.

[Anonymous]

The ironic thing about this push to have summer internships earlier is that a lot of college students are still having trouble finding jobs when they graduate.

[Anonymous]

This all goes back to the increasing number of kids who are "business" majors.

My kid is an economics major only because he has not clue about what he wants to do. At his school Economics is in college of liberal arts. He looks at his major as "sort of business".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The balance is called a university.

+1
Most universities offer courses across a range of disciplines - liberal arts, humanities, and STEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This all goes back to the increasing number of kids who are "business" majors.

My kid is an economics major only because he has not clue about what he wants to do. At his school Economics is in college of liberal arts. He looks at his major as "sort of business".

These students will have a lot of trouble getting jobs in the near future. The economics grads who run towards econometrics and rigorous math/stats coursework will be fine, but many econ/business students know so little out of undergrad and can hardly make a coherent report. No reason hiring those kinds of students if you can get AI to generate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The balance is called a university.

Most have no balance. Just business and engineering students with 2 "liberal arts" courses that are easy As and low rigor.

^^ Someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Most universities have core classes across all disciplines that are required. Sounds like you’ve been living in a LAC echo chamber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The balance is called a university.

Most have no balance. Just business and engineering students with 2 "liberal arts" courses that are easy As and low rigor.

^^ Someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Most universities have core classes across all disciplines that are required. Sounds like you’ve been living in a LAC echo chamber.

I went to a university. Not everyone who disagrees with you is in an "echo chamber," such a chronically online thing to suggest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The balance is called a university.

Most have no balance. Just business and engineering students with 2 "liberal arts" courses that are easy As and low rigor.

^^ Someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Most universities have core classes across all disciplines that are required. Sounds like you’ve been living in a LAC echo chamber.

I went to a university. Not everyone who disagrees with you is in an "echo chamber," such a chronically online thing to suggest.

Ok, well you really seem to be painting all universities with a broad stroke. I have three kids at three different state schools and they all have had a thorough grounding in the liberal arts - regardless of their actual majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a HACK grad, most of the top lacs tend to be like this. It's really about being in the right community/group of friends.

What is this HACK I keep seeing?

It's a made up acronym that popped up on the DCUM forum yesterday- Haverford, Amherst, Colby and Kenyon. Someone has decided they want to make "HACK" a thing, so they keep posting it in all the threads. It's not WASP, people. Sorry, Kenyon is a great little liberal arts school, but it's not really in the same league as Swat, let's be honest.

I get WASP because they are consistently ranked together and attract similar applicants. And I can imagine other acroymyms, like GOCK (Grinnell, Oberlin, Carleton, Kenyon, the traditional Midwest LACs). Maybe even VCSS (Vassar, Connecticut College, Skidmore, Sarah Lawrence). Mind you, I don’t want these acronyms, but they would make sense to me. But why HACK? Why are these particular schools alike more than others.

You know, if Pipeline really wanted to shape the narrative around Bucknell, he would come up with his own acronym — BAWS, or MAWB, if he wanted to swap Midd for Swat. Come on, Pipeline. You’re slacking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The balance is called a university.

Most have no balance. Just business and engineering students with 2 "liberal arts" courses that are easy As and low rigor.

^^ Someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Most universities have core classes across all disciplines that are required. Sounds like you’ve been living in a LAC echo chamber.

I went to a university. Not everyone who disagrees with you is in an "echo chamber," such a chronically online thing to suggest.

Ok, well you really seem to be painting all universities with a broad stroke. I have three kids at three different state schools and they all have had a thorough grounding in the liberal arts - regardless of their actual majors.

+ 1. That has been son’s experience as an accounting major at a large public university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The balance is called a university.

Most have no balance. Just business and engineering students with 2 "liberal arts" courses that are easy As and low rigor.

^^ Someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Most universities have core classes across all disciplines that are required. Sounds like you’ve been living in a LAC echo chamber.

I went to a university. Not everyone who disagrees with you is in an "echo chamber," such a chronically online thing to suggest.

They aren’t saying you are in an echo chamber because you disagree with them. They are saying you’re in an echo chamber because you are pushing a chronically online (or at least a chronically DCUM) line that is known to be untrue.

[Anonymous]

It’s funny to see people use these acronyms and abbreviations to make their school seem hot even though the people they are talking to don’t know what they are trying to advertise. So much for name recognition!