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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem isn’t the humanities, it’s that middle class people have been told that college is the path to a good career, which they translated as trade school. [/quote]

In the old days, only children of nobles went to college, and the purpose of a college education was anything but a “job.”  Actually getting a “job” was beneath them.  But the purpose of college education has changed greatly over the years.  Yes, most students and their parents look at colleges as no different in essence from trade schools.

That said, why force kids into STEM if they don’t have a passion for it?  CS and engineering undergraduate education is no joke.  There’s a reason why engineering schools (at least the decent ones) have high washout rates.  Kids are not going to thrive in anything they don’t have a passion for.  [/quote]

Maybe brilliant students who get 750 or higher on math without prepping can do well in STEM at T50 school even if they’re not that thrilled with STEM, but these lost children who have their parents manage their college application process, need to prep to get good SAT scores, and think using Khan Academy to get a good grade on an AP test is hard don’t seem like a great fit for physics for physics majors at a good school.

A lot of the parents here are just trying to push their kids into a wood chipper without understanding what they’re doing.

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