Anonymous wrote:College is not about job training. Anyone can take programming classes. Coming out of college you want critical thinking skills and an ability to communicate effectively. Most companies will provide some level of training for new hires anyway.

Anyone can improve critical thinking skills and an ability to communicate effectively at home.

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Anonymous wrote:Our family isn’t affluent enough for our child to major in history. Sorry.

Are you expecting your child to support you upon graduation from college? I don't understand.

No, they need to be able to get a job after college. There’s no trust fund.

The current unemployment rate is 3.8%. Does your kid suck that bad that they couldn't get a job in that environment?

Mine is in a STEM magnet and not interested in anything STEM except math. Pursuing theatre, music, maybe math or history/law.

Anonymous wrote:DS, a rising senior in FCPS with no hooks, IS interested in CS. He actually LOVES math, CS and physics. Seeing these admissions rates, kind of wish he was more interested in humanities. The world can always use another lawyer or lobbyist!

Good one!

Anonymous wrote:College is not about job training. Anyone can take programming classes. Coming out of college you want critical thinking skills and an ability to communicate effectively. Most companies will provide some level of training for new hires anyway.

For anyone who has to take out a loan it is. Maybe not for the DCUM crowd.

College is not about job training. Anyone can take programming classes. Coming out of college you want critical thinking skills and an ability to communicate effectively. Most companies will provide some level of training for new hires anyway.

DS, a rising senior in FCPS with no hooks, IS interested in CS. He actually LOVES math, CS and physics. Seeing these admissions rates, kind of wish he was more interested in humanities. The world can always use another lawyer or lobbyist!

I think this is a reflection of your kids’ friends’ interests, OP. Because my two sons and lots of their friends are not stem focused. They are in HS so not sure what studies they will pursue in college, but for starters they aren’t engineering/comp sci focused and as personal interests are into band, student govt, theater tech, and deca.

My kid is not STEM oriented.

Majoring in Business at a T20 school.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of jobs for humanities majors plus there’s always law school. This assumption of better jobs for STEM is absurd.

Yeah, from elite schools.

DP. My son is a humanities major at a state university. Is that allowed?

Yes as long as he doesn't beg for debt forgiveness later and waste my tax money.

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Anonymous wrote:Our family isn’t affluent enough for our child to major in history. Sorry.

Are you expecting your child to support you upon graduation from college? I don't understand.

No, they need to be able to get a job after college. There’s no trust fund.

What an idiotic view.

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of history/poli sci/econ boys. Boys majoring in English/Classics/Philosophy are rare, and those are the boys colleges will want. Male CS majors are a dime a dozen.

So that's a good strategy to get into a top school - pretend to want to major in Engilsh/classics/philosophy - and then switch to CS so you can get a job after college. Win-win.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of jobs for humanities majors plus there’s always law school. This assumption of better jobs for STEM is absurd.

Yeah, from elite schools.

DP. My son is a humanities major at a state university. Is that allowed?

There are plenty of history/poli sci/econ boys. Boys majoring in English/Classics/Philosophy are rare, and those are the boys colleges will want. Male CS majors are a dime a dozen.

Anonymous wrote:To read DCUM you get the impression that 50% of males plan to study CS, 48% some type of engineering and 2% undecided between the two. Maaybe some of them will do a double major in business and engineering/CS. OK, there's a smattering of pre-meds probably.

Does anyone else here have a high achieving DS off to a top RI university who plans to major in philosophy or history? No?

Parent of kid who has always been really strong in math. Math teachers always assumed DC was a STEM kid because of how they performed in their classes. Nope. Loves the social sciences. Has thought of majoring in philosophy or history or economics or international relations. Now DC is thinking of interdisciplinary studies and finding a way to combine them. We’ve encouraged them to follow their passions and see the connections between areas of study.