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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing that’s missing- most elite schools can’t support 100% of their classes being the same 3 majors. They need people to subscribe to their other departments.

It’s also good to have students with excellence in a lot of different areas. To be Frank, few people get famous off of engineering or science even at the elite level, so you wanna cast the net wide for the highest probability of getting an impactful, important alum[/quote]

Holistic admissions doesn't mean not admitting to the same 3 majors. It means admitting a variety of students to those 3 majors. [/quote]
No it’s also a population control element. Someone has to be in the classics department, even if they’re lower tier than the CS majors. Same with area studies.[/quote]

Exactly! Otherwise the classics dept will dwindle and cease to exist.  My STEM kid (Engineering) is at a school with 6K undergrads.  About 40-50% of friends are STEM based, but at differing levels.  Others are cringing at having to take a college math course and my kid is tutoring several.  some are linguistics, others are economics/data science, others are neurophsyc (or some variety), and many have other secondary interests, like theater, music, dance, etc which they explore for 10+ hours per week just like they did in HS.  These kids are smart, interesting and genuinely passionate about what they study/do.  I think that is a plus for being at college versus only knowing other CS/Engineering majors.  Or only knowing English majors[/quote]

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