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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP why are you being so coy about his major and field? We could give you much better advice if we knew.[/quote]

They're probably embarrassed that DS wasted his ivy league educational opportunity on something lame and embarrassing like English Lit or Philosophy.

DD is graduating from an Ivy next month and has had no issues finding internships, even during covid, or a post-grad job.

OP's son sounds lazy, tbh. Graduating from an ivy is not enough to secure a job like it used to be decades ago. [/quote]

English literature and philosophy aren't lame and get you in many jobs requiring analytical skills.[/quote]

It's just hard to translate these majors into job offers if you haven't interned and the economy isn't good. I say this as someone who graduated with English and Poli Sci degrees during the financial crisis whose experience was mostly doing research for professors. That really wasn't a boon when I tried to get a 9 to 5 job. Employers want to know you can do the work. And I went to a top/the top SLAC. It's just reality. I experienced it as did many of my peers from college. It was rough. I will not let my kids go down that road. I tell my husband they can major in dance or film or whatever, but there has also got to be Econ. You never know what economy you'll graduate into and going to a good school - Williams, Amherst, Harvard, etc. - gives you a leg up when job searching but not if you don't have a good major and good internships to back it up. [/quote]

This is excellent advice.

Are you willing to name your undergraduate school ("a top/the top SLAC"). I think that it would be helpful even though most understand that you are referring to Amherst or Williams.[/quote]

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