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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will my son be able to attract a mate if he majors in the humanities?[/quote]

People who major in the humanities are truly educated, in ways that STEM majors are not.

Yes, if your son goes on to law school or business school or something else that produces an attractive income, he will have no problem attracting girls. Lots of them.[/quote]

Folks...if you freely admit that a humanities major needs to pursue another graduate degree in order to produce an attractive income...well, then you are answering OP's question as to why so few people (and even fewer men) are majoring in them.

Lost in this entire thread was OP saying that when looking at a HS instagram page a whopping 13 people in total plan to major in humanities.  That's anywhere from maybe 2% to 10% of a graduating class.[/quote]

My friends and kids with [b]humanities and business[/b]  from T10/Ivies didn’t need a graduate degree. [/quote]

It's unclear if you are saying they dual-majored in humanities and business, or not.   However, unclear why you are even referencing business...[b]because that's what people are basically saying...major in something practical like business.

Also, you bring up another point that nobody wants to admit.  You have to attend a top school if you think you can parlay a humanities degree into a top job[/b].
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exactly. Cue the ".. humanities  majojr who is now a lawyer making big bucks.."  I guess that humanities undergrad major lawyer doesn't have the necessary critical thinking skills to realize that they also needed another degree to get that lawyer job.[/quote]

Yes. And trying to explain things like selection bias to a humanities major is like dropping pebbles into a deep, deep well. [/quote]

Ivy grad with just a BA making $400k.

It’s not uncommon.  However, for certain majors you need to be at a T-10 or Ivy to get picked up by WS or a big consultancy fresh out of undergrad. They like history and English majors. [/quote]

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