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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She does NOT need a major!!! What she needs is a large university, not a small college, so that she can explore various pathways before settling into something she likes. She does not need to declare a major in most US institutions as a high school applicant. She will have to choose as a sophomore or junior.[/quote]

Completely agree with this. Not a LAC. Big school. She might be excellent at going deep in a field, and producing research/case studies in STEM, lots of reading, lots of mental activity. For example she could explore 
Pharmaceutical Marketing 
Drug Safety 
Engineering Innovation
Food Sciences
AI applications 
Health Innovation

These are majors and minors that aren’t typically offered at LACs
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Most of those aren't majors to begin with.[/quote]
+1, no one majors in Pharmaceutical marketing, nor aspires to do such. You get a degree in English or marketing and just apply cause you’re desperate for a job and you get it. Drug saftety? That’s a chemistry job. Food sciences? That’s a chemistry job, and grossly underpaid. Health innovation- that means nothing. Engineering innovation? A title for an engineer that they don’t know what to do with, but they need someone to do something sorta management, sorta logistics. And AI applications is about as vague as you can get- does the PP not think LACs have CS programs? Do they even know what they’re saying? If someone majored in “AI applications” their first job would be going to the SNAP benefits website and opening an application. These are ridiculously useless majors that no one has or needs.

But yes, op listen to this person if your daughter is considering a [b]Turf Grass Management degree[/b].[/quote]

I had never heard of this major before (and even thought it might be listed above as a joke?) but sure enough I now know a kid heading to VT to major in Turf Grass Management. Interesting kid too.[/quote]

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