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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jaysus this site.

Biology is a very popular major and thousands of students graduate with bio degrees every year and go on to live normal, happy lives doing normal, happy jobs across all sorts of career paths. [b]Not everyone has hopes and dreams of living in Bethesda with a 2 car garage and kids in a private school. [/b]

I was a bio minor so know many bio majors; several work for pharmaceutical companies, one is a field biologist (I believe she may have gotten a MS after her undergrad degree), one works at a zoo, etc. A few became lawyers, a few doctors, and a few got PhDs.

I tend to agree that small schools with good programs, like Carleton or St. Olaf, are better for undergrads than big schools. [/quote]Sure, true, but a disproportionately high percentage of high schoolers (and their parents) think a bio degree is a dependable path to exactly that. And it's not. Could get there, sure, of course. But no more likely than a history or poli sci degree, and much less likely than a degree in math/math-adjacent or any of the hard sciences (to say nothing of engineering). So, go for bio if it's your passion, but not because "It's STEM! It's valuable!"[/quote]

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