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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get a liberal arts degree (economics and something soft) from the highest ranked school you can.

Recruiting for finance, consulting, and corporate /strategy roles are much much easier if you are in English and economics major coming from Rice or Vanderbilt or Emory compared to CS at Purdue…..

Ask around people!!![/quote]

This. College is not trade school, despite the pervasive and lingering lower middle class belief to the contrary. [/quote]
This is 2024, not 1954, despite how some elite people want to think it is.  College is no longer about a liberal art education, and then get some job because you have a degree. That's 1954 thinking.  This is not how it works today, in 2024.[/quote]

As thé decades pass, the liberal arts majors will have a better understanding of the world and how it works that the person who is not interested in anything that isn’t tech or tech-related. The non liberal arts major won’t even realize what they can’t  understand because of their lack of knowledge of history, arts, and humanities. Old age will be difficult for them because they just. won’t. get. it.
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That's your imagination.  
The employers who actually pay don't agree with your imagination. 
The employers who pay are the ones matter.[/quote]

You are entitled to your view as I am to mine.

Note my spouse and I both graduated with humanities majors from a T10 university.

Our combined annual income averages between $4.5-6million a year. 
We are definitely not alone.[/quote]

That much in income and you're on DCUM?

Yeah....right. And I'm Elon Musk.[/quote]

You’d be surprised….and I’m not even in DC![/quote]

Why do people who don’t live in the dmv go on DCUM?[/quote]

Better question, how many posters are in the DMV? I'll guess 1 in 4, tops.[/quote]

I think it's more like 3 in 4.  Maybe this thread is skewed, but not the overall site.  But it's not 75% non-DMV considering how many posts you will get to any thread about whether the Big3 schools are doing better or worse with college admissions.[/quote]

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