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[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]

[b]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.[/b]
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This is pure unadulterated nonsense.

STEM majors have 30% or more of their course work in history, arts and humanities in college. It is the humanities majors who end up having a very narrow education.

How many courses do you need in history, arts and humanities? Do you need to major in history to understand world history?

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Agree 100%. Furthermore you can get a fine understanding of history arts and humanities just by doing your own reading without taking any college courses in them at all. The same approach would not work with STEM.[/quote]

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