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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It cut off. Here is the rest:

Example 2: A neighbor’s daughter is currently a senior at Princeton majoring in Comparative Literature. I would never let my kid major in that. [/quote]

[b]By its title I thought this thread was going to be about a student's performance at college, finding something they genuinely care about and then doing a great job of studying it, being far more important than the name of the college they attend.
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Instead, it's a tired attack on the humanities that perceives college education as purely vocational training. Boring.

FWIW my kid literally majored in Comparative Literature and spent his summers working at a summer camp. He is now finishing his third year at a Top 6 law school on full scholarship and will soon be making over $200,000/year. A big part of that is because he was so inspired by his undergraduate experience that he did very well academically, spent part of his under-employed summer doing independent research on a topic that interested him so much it turned into a thesis, and resulted in what I figure must have been the kind of faculty letters of recommendation that helped him get that law school scholarship.

I agree that what your kid does at college is far more important than where he goes. I disagree that what he does at college has to be some kind of pre-professional course of study and internship track.[/quote]

+1 bolded exactly.[/quote]

OP here. Nice that it all worked out for your kid. But what if he decided to get a PhD in CompLit instead of law school? The prospects would be much more dire then. [/quote]

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