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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LMFAO the majors that require the highest level of math are trade school??

Morons.

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Math classes are generally harder than English classes. That's why the average SAT score in English is usually higher than the average SAT for math. [/quote]

Average SAT Verbal 529, SAT Math 521. i'd hardly call that significant[/quote]

By design since these are normalized scores not raw, but try explaining that to the STEM booster.  :roll: [/quote]

I’m someone who started out in STEM at a T20 school but slid into being an English major partly because I came in (in the pre-AP test days) less well prepared than I thought; partly because the average grades in STEM classes were about 0.5 points lower, just because; and partly because everyone in my family thought the idea of me majoring in STEM was absurd. My parents had no idea how anyone who majored in STEM who wasn’t a doctor could earn a living.

What’s hot in terms of majors changes over time. Now, humanities majors are out of fashion because law school is out of fashion. If legal hiring recovers, then interest in humanities and social sciences majors will recover.

But I think the big thing is that students have to be smart and enthusiastic to get through STEM classes at T20 universities. Dutiful, sort-of-bright children who are majoring in CS at Duke or John’s Hopkins because their parents want them to be CS majors are unlikely to survive the weeding out process. Parents who sincerely want to push bright-ish kids into CS or the like need to aim their kids at the Catholic Universities of the world, not the Johns Hopkinses. [/quote]

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