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[quote=Anonymous]Econ at MIT is very math-focused

Business at MIT is excellent (I hear — I confess I avoided Sloan entirely) but you still have to do the distribution requirements of physics, calc, bio, chemistry

Philosophy and Linguistics are good but a little unusually focused is my understanding

More standard humanities majors like history, English, anthropology, etc are options but very small (less than 10 graduates every year) and almost all of them have another more STEM-y major.  You won’t get a mainstream humanities degree from MIT because there’s not enough students to cover all the basic classes all the time.  So you’ll get a very odd mix of class options and most of your classmates will be doing in for a single class rather majoring in the subject.  I don’t know anyone who applied and entered MIT with the intention of being a solely humanities major.  I do know some people who discovered a love of humanities while they were there and ended up majoring in just English (having rotated through chemistry, chemical engineering, math, and dual math/english first).  You can crossregister at Harvard for more standard humanities classes but MIT and Harvard block their days differently so it’s hard to make it work, although Harvard classes are excellent!  I don’t know anyone who went to tufts or Wellesley for cross registered classes.[/quote]

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