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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]as a former immigrant (went back to my home country because US is completely insane and in precipitous decline) I will note that this whole college as a brand charade is a very American thing. Americans will spend 99% of their time discussing college culture and brands, and is this particular school exactly as much elite as that one, and then they will spend 1% discussing majors. they will let their kids study garbage and feel they should not say anything about it despite burning through hundreds of thousands of dollars. [/quote]

Truer words have never been spoken.  And, I am born in the USA.[/quote]

I know, look at Oxford and Cambridge, everyone there majors in STEM. No stupid literature majors there . . .[/quote]

funny you came up with that example when those schools have nothing in common with US universities. you are admitted to study particular subject and everyone knows it coming in, and you are prepared accordingly or you wouldn't be admitted in the first place. unlike in the US where you waste two years exploring and taking random classes.[/quote]

Of course they don't. In the US, we "let their kids study garbage". It's not about variety. It simply that some majors are garbage and others are not. It's blessing that this only occurs in the US and at quality non-US schools like Oxford and Cambridge, no one majors in something garbage.[/quote]

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