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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The better the college, the less important the major. Easy to find employment as a humanities major if you went to HYP or AWS, much harder if you went to a relatively lower ranked school. Then again, a high percentage of graduates from these top schools go on to graduate school, so having a philosophy or theology degree is less important in terms of income than getting accepted into a top law school.[/quote]

I agree.[/quote]

Not really. Even the humanities majors at HYPS have a hard time finding a job if they don't go to grad school. [/quote]

You all do realize that most universities and colleges don't want to be 75% engineering and tech-related too, right?

Having spent most of the last 10 years in Palo Alto, that is clearly true at Stanford. Majoring in CS or even a STEM field isn't a prerequisite for a tech job at Google or Apple either. You make it sound like an English major who took multiple CS classes and had a good internship wouldn't be a great SWE hire. Your major doesn't define you, especially at places that don't have restrictive core curriculums that limit a lot of classes you can take. Similarly, beyond the minimum pre-med classes, med school applicants can actually separate themselves with other strengths and majors. [/quote]

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