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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  No idea on plan.  Maybe law school, foreign service, sales, who knows.

He is a super charismatic kid.  The type that makes connections where ever he goes.  I have two other kids who are not like this.  I'm not particularly worried about the history kid landing on his feet without a precise career path lined up.   [/quote]

So not after a PhD in history. Would discourage a smart, charismatic, friendly, straight, academically gifted, non-athletic recruit, history major boy from going to a small liberal arts school in the middle of nowhere. Will likely have a hard time finding a significant cohort. Also, very limited classes.

Better to go to a larger school.

Most of the Ivies are very good at history - Yale, Penn, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia. All difficult admits for anyone, but the declared interest in history will help. Every History department in the country is starving for undergrad history majors.

Other schools to consider are Michigan, Vanderbilt, Rice is surprisingly good at history, Duke, Chicago, Notre Dame, Wisconsin.

More classes in different topics. Larger departments, There are so few tenure track history professorships available that just about everybody is going to be very good. And being part of a larger school makes it easier for a social kid to find their people. [/quote]

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