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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Engineering and CS majors can work in many industries including going to law school and taking jobs at investment banks, no need for them to be humanities majors[/quote]

They don’t often have the other soft skills necessary to complete those jobs though. So they would never be hired to begin with.[/quote]

Actually, engineering majors are often the best read and most empathetic kids you'll meet these days. Because they are smart and they  are curious. At my kid's top 20 school, the engineering majors are highly recruited by MBB and Wall Street. So I think your assumptions are very dated. It's not 1987 anymore. The smart kids aren't going into history or political science or other soft majors these days. Engineering is vacuuming a lot of the talent now. Whether it's the right fit for everyone is a different discussion. I would never encourage anyone who doesn't have the aptitude and discipline to choose engineering. It is a very tough major everywhere. [/quote]
No need to overdo it. The big reason so many students are majoring in STEM is the shift by institutions to make STEM accessible. CS, particularly, has been softened to play-doh at many institutions and you can coast through a degree with the hardest math class maybe being an application-based linear algebra course. Smart kids still major in any and everything, and there's many social science students going into banking/finance and consulting.[/quote]
+1, look at the top LACs where CS is almost eclipsing Econ for the lazy mans degree. It just isn't as difficult as other STEM degrees and doesn't weed as many students out. Physics could pay you $300k starting salary right out of college and hardly any would make it through still.[/quote]

A BS Physics degree rarely rarely would pay so much fresh out of school.  Exceptions surely exist, but that is quite far from being a typical, median, or mean starting salary for a BS Physics degree.  [/quote]
It was a hypothetical. I’m well aware physics grads don’t make much money.[/quote]

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