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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In this economic climate, the days of doing 'hobby' majors r over![/quote]

Exactly.  That's why Liberal Arts is the way to go.  Technology is changing too fast to know what skills will be needed in 10 years.  LeRning how to think will benefit you forever.[/quote]

Wrong.  I think the days of the SLACs are over too.  And I went to a SLAC, majored in history and went to Yale law school.  But nowadays I probably couldn't get back in my SLAC and Yale Law School.  It's just too damn competitive.  It's more important to get current with technology and move forward with it. Liberal arts doesn't teach you how to think (or spell, obviously).  It's a creature of the past when people could easily get in and parents and loan programs made it affordable to spend fouryears study geology, history, philosophy or whatever.  That's no longer the case.  A relative of mine graduated from a SLAC with a puff major and over $200K in loans.  He's bussing tables at an I-Hop.  I am not making this up.  At 26 he is going to have to file for bankruptcy (and yes I know the fed loans aren't discharged by bankruptcy).[/quote]

honestly, law school should not be 4+3 years. If you want to sit for the LSAT at the end of HS and can nail a 170+ and you write well, you should be able to matriculate into LS directly. Unless you are doing patent or something where you need an science/engineering background.

Furthermore with MOOC's, I could see a lot of schools closing and/or shrinking save for maybe the top 100 universities and maybe 50 or so lac's. [/quote]

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