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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at one of those schools and has friends happily in humanities majors. Just because a school emphasizes the STEM offerings doesn't mean they're not strong for humanities.[/quote]

+1 - The STEM buildings are often new and have fancy labs and expensive equipment that the schools want to show off.  A building for English lectures looks like a building with classrooms.  But that doesn't mean they don't recruit and support excellent faculty.  Carleton's president is an English prof and teaches a course every year (or two?).  Many of these schools have art collections.  You can always ask to speak to a student in "x" department - pretty sure all schools have some sort of ambassador program for exactly this reason.[/quote]

OP, your kid can dig deeper than what's offered on campus tours and websites. It's fine to reach out and ask to be put in contact with specific departments, and to look online at the departments' course offerings, read the professors' bios, check out where recent grads (or even undergrads) have published, etc. And like PP notes, schools often have student ambassadors or whatever term each school wants--students who are in various majors and who are willing to talk to prospective students about those departments. But your kid will need to be proactive to look up these things and contact the school to ask to speak with people.

STEM is the big-deal shiny new thing and naturally gets a lot of focus when tours are putting on the Ritz for visiting students--and especially for visiting parents. [/quote]

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