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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rigor has always mattered regardless of school type (private or public). The 4.0 with easy classes will have far worse outcomes than the 3.85 with the most difficult courseload.[/quote]
This is old advice. Not at all true if the supposed “rigor” courses (math? STEM?) have nothing to do with the 4.0 student’s interests. Major matters more than ever: colleges are sick of STEM, Econ, and biosciences applicants — as well they should be,[/quote]

Schools are shutting down their humanities departments and expanding their stem offerings.
I'm sure they would like students to be interested in the things they want to teach but with large language models a lot of humanities are as useful as an abacus in an age of calculators.
Students are choosing Purdue STEM over Brown humanities.
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Almost all of Duke’s transfer students admitted this year were humanities majors[/quote]

Doesn't that tell you humanities are not popular, and that they need transfers to pay the tuitions?[/quote]

Yes and that applying as a freshman for humanities with strong EC/transcript/LOR alignment might be a good strategy too (I think the issue is too many pretend with that plan in ED/RD and then when they get to Durham they switch. So they look to the transfer pool to fill that gap - bc their freshman year transcript is authentic---with indications of true academic interests).[/quote]

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