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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forget about the job one gets one or two years following graduation and focus on the long term. That's where SLACs shine. The SLAC grad ends up supervising the STEM worker bee.[/quote]

Keep parroting the line about SLAC graduates'  superior prospects down the line. We have tens of thousands of humanities graduates who are unemployed or underemployed thinking there would be that pot of gold down the line based on the line that those like you have sought to hold out as what awaits them down the line. Whether you like it or not today's economy is not kindly disposed towards SLAC graduates - unless they major in a STEM.

[quote=Anonymous]People, you can major in other things besides humanities at SLACs. Tons of people major in the humanities at Ivies and state universities. We need some SLAC slack.[/quote]

Your point is well made about SLAC's offering more than merely the humanities but most who advocate SLACs focus on the humanties majors. Humanities graduates who do reasonably well in one of the Ivies or some of the other well regarded state schools do have promising job prospects but they constitute a relatively small proportion of these graduates.

As a general rule, if you major in one of the humanities, you better plan on going to law school, med school, business school or some other graduate progam that offers the promise of reasonably lucrative employment.[/quote]

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