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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reflection towards the move of LAC to Science and Math Arts Colleges. These lacs should be embarrassed that their top majors are math, Econ, and Chemistry.[/quote]
Math and Chem are both foundational to the liberal arts and I’ve found that most students studying them are passionate. Chem gets some pre-meds, but they are still good at LACs.

I agree with Econ. If done right, Econ can totally be part of a liberal arts college. However, most Econ programs at LACs now just serve as dumbed down pre-finance programs for dude bro athletes. [/quote]
I was an idiot con major at Williams, and Econ is definitely not a dumbed down program. Lots of the students you describe ended up majoring in psychology. One of the best parts about being an Econ major there is you can take classes at their center for developmental economics (a grad program that ends up with many finance ministers from developing countries). While requiring lots of work, the classes were fascinating and tied in nicely with political economy classes, too. Ironically, I did end up going into finance on wall st, but didn’t have that goal initially and hate when Econ majors get stereotyped to that. Econ is definitely not an easy major there. [/quote]
I don’t think they meant that Econ is a non-rigorous degree, but it really has stopped being a liberal arts one for many of these colleges.

The worst offender is Claremont McKenna College, which is a great institution, but essentially a trade business school that happens to dabble in other subjects.[/quote]

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