What are the academic programs each WASP is known for?

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A large number of Swarthmore graduates double major (if I remember right it is around 40%). Humanities and Social Sciences are well represented along with STEM. I don't have experience with the other colleges, but I am impressed with how my kid has grown at Swarthmore, particularly with respect to critical thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:A large number of Swarthmore graduates double major (if I remember right it is around 40%). Humanities and Social Sciences are well represented along with STEM. I don't have experience with the other colleges, but I am impressed with how my kid has grown at Swarthmore, particularly with respect to critical thinking.

A lot of double majors are stem double majors. It’s really rare that it is difficult to double major at a liberal arts college, and, if that were a real concern, a student would choose Amherst.

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Anonymous wrote:A large number of Swarthmore graduates double major (if I remember right it is around 40%). Humanities and Social Sciences are well represented along with STEM. I don't have experience with the other colleges, but I am impressed with how my kid has grown at Swarthmore, particularly with respect to critical thinking.

A lot of double majors are stem double majors. It’s really rare that it is difficult to double major at a liberal arts college, and, if that were a real concern, a student would choose Amherst.

It's not a real concern, but you'd have to plan carefully with respect to distribution requirements. This might mean taking a few classes you're not that excited about in an effort to meet all requirements. Amherst just prohibited triple majoring, because too many students were using that as an opportunity to stack pre-professional credentials rather than explore the open curriculum in the way intended. Even the SLACs are dominated by pre-professional approaches these days. A shame.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not a valid question. They are known for being strong all around SLACs. They really aren’t known for each having a specific strength.

Agreed. You generally go to a SLAC for a well-rounded liberal arts education (which unfortunately no longer seems to be valued). Learn how to think. So though some might theoretically be better than others in particular areas, if you are going to college because you want to be 100% focused on bio or Spanish or Econ, these probably aren’t the places for you.

I work on Wall Street and I prefer to hire smart SLAC grads of all majors and we will teach them what we want them to know. Then when the world changes and they need to adapt, they tend to be the best at doing so. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer people agree with me.

People disagree because we are in an era of necessitated specialization. No longer do we need general programmers- we have AI. We need highly trained thinkers. I’ll take a kid who has actually worked on Neural networks over the Williams kid who can just rattle off about knot theory.

Another dim CS drone. And when things change in a few years the Williams kids adapts…..the other one is now basically a doorstop.

Wrong, so so wrong. Neural networks takes many foundational skills and ties them together. The Williams kid is drowning because they can’t catch up to the modern day algorithms and training.

You are the perfect example of the inadequacy of your thought process. The typical Williams student starts out with a higher base level than 99% of the population and yet you are talking about them in terms like "drowning". I would give them a whole lot more credit than you are and I would dial back the hubris and remember "highly intelligent people tend to underestimate their strengths while stupid people tend to overestimate their capabilities". At the moment you fall into the latter box.

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Anonymous wrote:The lack of humanities focus at these colleges is quite sad

I think these posters are overstating things. These are first of all liberal arts colleges (without graduate level programs) and people are magnifying the differences.

Every top SLAC is seeing a massive decline in humanities students, and now faculty.

Still blithering….

Wow, you’re seriously delusional if you think this is controversial.

https://williamsrecord.com/463753/news/college-reckons-with-declining-interest-in-the-humanities/" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://williamsrecord.com/463753/news/college-reckons-with-declining-interest-in-the-humanities/
https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2015/11/05/decline-in-humanities-majors-causes-concern-for-faculty-students/" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2015/11/05/decline-in-humanities-majors-causes-concern-for-faculty-students/
https://tsl.news/news7320/" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://tsl.news/news7320/

Read up!

I have read up, "massive" isn't the right word here.

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Anonymous wrote:Amherst: nothing. There's absolutely no reason to go there over WSP, or even Bowdoin and Middlebury. Ugly campus, mediocre outcomes, expensive tuition, overemphasis on DEI. Avoid at all costs.

Amherst is the number 1 lac for christs sakes!

#2 actually, but the Amherst troll always finds these threads.

Nope, number 1. Most dedicated to the liberal arts, while not just committing to corporate finance. It sets up grads for their careers rather than pushing them into consulting and IB.

It almost feels like the Bucknell troll managed to transfer.

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These are the stand out programs for each of these schools based on the numbers of graduating majors, which are disproportionately higher than the percent at the others.

Amherst- Biology, Legal Studies, Psychology, Architecture

Pomona- Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Media Studies, Public Policy Analysis

Swarthmore- Education, Engineering, Computer Science, Philosophy

Williams- English, Economics, Art, History

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The Amherst faculty is considering voting on implementing a preference for humanities majors in their admissions policies because of declining enrollment.

Interestingly enough, this isn't a new problem. The paragraph above was written in 1964.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not a valid question. They are known for being strong all around SLACs. They really aren’t known for each having a specific strength.

Agreed. You generally go to a SLAC for a well-rounded liberal arts education (which unfortunately no longer seems to be valued). Learn how to think. So though some might theoretically be better than others in particular areas, if you are going to college because you want to be 100% focused on bio or Spanish or Econ, these probably aren’t the places for you.

I work on Wall Street and I prefer to hire smart SLAC grads of all majors and we will teach them what we want them to know. Then when the world changes and they need to adapt, they tend to be the best at doing so. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer people agree with me.

People disagree because we are in an era of necessitated specialization. No longer do we need general programmers- we have AI. We need highly trained thinkers. I’ll take a kid who has actually worked on Neural networks over the Williams kid who can just rattle off about knot theory.

Another dim CS drone. And when things change in a few years the Williams kids adapts…..the other one is now basically a doorstop.

Wrong, so so wrong. Neural networks takes many foundational skills and ties them together. The Williams kid is drowning because they can’t catch up to the modern day algorithms and training.

You are the perfect example of the inadequacy of your thought process. The typical Williams student starts out with a higher base level than 99% of the population and yet you are talking about them in terms like "drowning". I would give them a whole lot more credit than you are and I would dial back the hubris and remember "highly intelligent people tend to underestimate their strengths while stupid people tend to overestimate their capabilities". At the moment you fall into the latter box.

And? They’re not 99% better than the competition (other top colleges) in the industries that Williams students tend towards.

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Anonymous wrote:The Amherst faculty is considering voting on implementing a preference for humanities majors in their admissions policies because of declining enrollment.

Interestingly enough, this isn't a new problem. The paragraph above was written in 1964.

That soft preference has been there for quite some time.

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Anonymous wrote:These are the stand out programs for each of these schools based on the numbers of graduating majors, which are disproportionately higher than the percent at the others.

Amherst- Biology, Legal Studies, Psychology, Architecture

Pomona- Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Media Studies, Public Policy Analysis

Swarthmore- Education, Engineering, Computer Science, Philosophy

Williams- English, Economics, Art, History

Most accurate list, each articulating niche programs that each offers that are superior to the other.

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Anonymous wrote:These are the stand out programs for each of these schools based on the numbers of graduating majors, which are disproportionately higher than the percent at the others.

Amherst- Biology, Legal Studies, Psychology, Architecture

Pomona- Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Media Studies, Public Policy Analysis

Swarthmore- Education, Engineering, Computer Science, Philosophy

Williams- English, Economics, Art, History

So basically sophomore students actually help the world while the rest of these grads are entitled or actively destroying it.

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Anonymous wrote:These are the stand out programs for each of these schools based on the numbers of graduating majors, which are disproportionately higher than the percent at the others.

Amherst- Biology, Legal Studies, Psychology, Architecture

Pomona- Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Media Studies, Public Policy Analysis

Swarthmore- Education, Engineering, Computer Science, Philosophy

Williams- English, Economics, Art, History

So basically sophomore students actually help the world while the rest of these grads are entitled or actively destroying it.

Yup. All those bio majors at Amherst and Pomona who become doctors and prevent stupid people like you from dying are really destroying the world. And the architects at Amherst who designed your mom's house so you can sit in the basement in a wife beater drinking a Coors Light and type stupidity.

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Anonymous wrote:These are the stand out programs for each of these schools based on the numbers of graduating majors, which are disproportionately higher than the percent at the others.

Amherst- Biology, Legal Studies, Psychology, Architecture

Pomona- Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Media Studies, Public Policy Analysis

Swarthmore- Education, Engineering, Computer Science, Philosophy

Williams- English, Economics, Art, History

So basically sophomore students actually help the world while the rest of these grads are entitled or actively destroying it.

Yup. All those bio majors at Amherst and Pomona who become doctors and prevent stupid people like you from dying are really destroying the world. And the architects at Amherst who designed your mom's house so you can sit in the basement in a wife beater drinking a Coors Light and type stupidity.

The architectural studies degree is useless and doesn’t make you a licensed architect- you need a BArch. It’s basically an urban studies degree for pre-planners with too much time and money on their hands. Many of these bio majors at these liberal arts colleges are going to grad school to solve some nonsensical minor biological problem that will not amount to anything a doctor does.

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Anonymous wrote:These are the stand out programs for each of these schools based on the numbers of graduating majors, which are disproportionately higher than the percent at the others.

Amherst- Biology, Legal Studies, Psychology, Architecture

Pomona- Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Media Studies, Public Policy Analysis

Swarthmore- Education, Engineering, Computer Science, Philosophy

Williams- English, Economics, Art, History

So basically sophomore students actually help the world while the rest of these grads are entitled or actively destroying it.

Yup. All those bio majors at Amherst and Pomona who become doctors and prevent stupid people like you from dying are really destroying the world. And the architects at Amherst who designed your mom's house so you can sit in the basement in a wife beater drinking a Coors Light and type stupidity.

They were clearly talking about the Williams Econ bros-who definitely make the world a worse place. Architecture and Media Studies at a liberal arts college is straight up a waste of a degree.