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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the “STEM” only approach to college a first generation or Asian immigrant thing? It is a bit jarring to read the lack of appreciation for becoming a well rounded, educated adult that is knowledgeable about history, religion, philosophy, literature, politics, world languages and, yes, the sciences.

Since ROI seems most important in this discussion, our HHI is over $2 million and our college degrees are in English and Political Science. [/quote]
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We have the same HHI and our liberal arts degrees were in Econ and gasp….German! We both went straight to wall st, and neither got any advanced degrees. I’ve posted this before but on wall st we always were involved in recruiting so we’d get a say in the new hires for our group. Almost all of our hires were either small liberal arts colleges or ivies. We wanted the kids that had learned how to learn. We’d be teaching them everything they needed to know, they just needed the ability to learn it. I learned from my experience after hiring a few finance majors from big universities. They were all disasters as they essentially had memorized ways to do things but were incapable of learning how to apply them to the real world. They were also way behind as far as being able to chat about current events, geopolitical things (which obviously played into our industry), etc. [/quote]

critical thinking skills are the MOST important thing you should learn in college, IMO.  As you stated, you can train anyone to do almost anything (well not engineering or doctor, but even CS can be taught to a smart, critical thinker who majored in English/German/etc).  As an employer I want smart people who have critical thinking skills and can learn---that is who goes far in life.  You can get there as an engineer, a business major, an Art history major, or many others.  [/quote]

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