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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was reading in one of the other threads that even physics and math majors are considered borderline employable these days, and have to double up in something &quot;practical&quot;. Normally I would take that as normal DCUM overreaction but I'm starting to sweat it for a niece of mine.

Consider the following scenario. You're at a school ranked somewhere in the 20s on the US News liberal arts colleges list, majoring in some branch of literature. It's too late to transfer out or switch majors. You might want to do a professional degree (e.g. law school) at a later date, but you want to work a few years first.

What's the play here? Is there a reasonably straightforward path to good earnings? Or are you doomed to penury til you snag your J.D. or whatever?[/quote]

Oh boy! I didn't read all the responses but judging by the number of pages, I suspect it's a lot :-).

Liberal Arts peeps are very defensive and prickly and take offense to any question about the viability of their degrees. Some do very well (just like some community college--&gt;GMU students do very well) and they will paint a picture that leads you to believe that they are the rule and not the exception. In general, you need grad school or beyond when you get a non-professional degree. There are no free lunches. Of course, there are exceptions.
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This is the problem with expressing an opinion without reading the source material -- you make a lot of incorrect assumptions.

The prickly ones in this thread have been the STEM-obsessed people who can't fathom that someone might choose a different path. The LA majors are not taking offense since any question about the "viability of their degrees" is just a premise that can be rejected out-of-hand -- it's not a valid perspective. That's the backwards looking conversation, anyway. The real question is what does the future hold.

But the "prickly" ones here aren't the LA majors. They're the ones who are very confident. [/quote]

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