Anonymous wrote:Why not go to school for something useful like engineering? Liberal arts is basically worthless

Yep. That’s why it’s the most competitive major to get into and the schools whose focus is engineering and ranked high in that major are becoming almost impossible to get into as well. Makes sense since all tech things are the way of the future moving forward.

Engineering is seen as an prestige/six figure job out of school. But most do not make it, others dol and hate the junior engineering gigs. They are about as souless as any cube job in the end and way more pressure.

Anonymous wrote:STEM is the new liberal arts. CS and engineering grads working at starbucks! Oh the irony!

Engineering grads are, by and large, not working at Starbucks.

Let’s see how many survive.

STEM is the new liberal arts. CS and engineering grads working at starbucks! Oh the irony!

There are still more psychology, communications , etc. students.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering

A large percentage of them won’t be able to hack engineering and will drop out of it and pursue an easier major.

This is true. Same for “pre-med”. Chen/physics weed out classes.

Not true at ivies, Stanford, and other top schools that have 97% of engineering school freshmen continue to sophomore year rather than transfer to arts and sciences. The students who get in these places can handle it

Stanford doesn't "allow" anyone to fail a class. They will allow the student to drop the class a week before finals and retake the class like 3x to get a passing grade.

It's getting more and more expensive to live, and engineering is one of the few degrees that you can make six figures early on in your career without needing a graduate degree. If you look at all the top paying majors with undergrads, almost half is eng.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering

A large percentage of them won’t be able to hack engineering and will drop out of it and pursue an easier major.

This is true. Same for “pre-med”. Chen/physics weed out classes.

Not true at ivies, Stanford, and other top schools that have 97% of engineering school freshmen continue to sophomore year rather than transfer to arts and sciences. The students who get in these places can handle it

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering

Yes it is tons. My kid is at an ivy and the E school had the largest percentage of the application pool yet, at a school where the total apps were also a record

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering

A large percentage of them won’t be able to hack engineering and will drop out of it and pursue an easier major.

This is true. Same for “pre-med”. Chen/physics weed out classes.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering

A large percentage of them won’t be able to hack engineering and will drop out of it and pursue an easier major.

Why not go to school for something useful like engineering? Liberal arts is basically worthless

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering

Not really. Maybe a bit more than in the past, but not a lot. Given the cost of schools, it makes sense.

Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering