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Anonymous wrote:The better the college, the less important the major. Easy to find employment as a humanities major if you went to HYP or AWS, much harder if you went to a relatively lower ranked school. Then again, a high percentage of graduates from these top schools go on to graduate school, so having a philosophy or theology degree is less important in terms of income than getting accepted into a top law school.

I agree.

Not really. Even the humanities majors at HYPS have a hard time finding a job if they don't go to grad school.

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Anonymous wrote:The better the college, the less important the major. Easy to find employment as a humanities major if you went to HYP or AWS, much harder if you went to a relatively lower ranked school. Then again, a high percentage of graduates from these top schools go on to graduate school, so having a philosophy or theology degree is less important in terms of income than getting accepted into a top law school.

I agree.

Not really. Even the humanities majors at HYPS have a hard time finding a job if they don't go to grad school.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that the kids I know going to T-10 schools and are majoring in things like philosophy or sociology are from families that are in big law, IB, or medicine. They also have generational wealth from grandparents. We are first generation college grads with no parental help but worked our way up to UMC with no advice or mentoring. Our kids did well enough to get merit at some private universities but ultimately chose the state flagship to save money. They also pursued majors that led to high paying fields upon graduation. But are people like us short-changing our kids in not providing them with a liberal arts education at an elite school so they can join the rarefied alumni clubs and networking opportunities that lead to the truly big bucks?

Cringe. If you're not from that pedigreed background K-12, or at least 9th-12th (boarding or upper end day school), your kids were never entering that rarefied orbit in college. Rich kids see right through the interlopers and pretenders. They are magnets to each other and tend to box out the unwashed. That's not to say your kid wouldn't have hung out with rich kids, but s/he will very likely hang out with some rich kids at their state university. Let me know how many rich kids still hang out with your middle class kid after everyone graduates. Let me know when a rich kid puts a ring on your middle class daughter's finger. Can it happen? Sure. Is it likely? Not at all. And your mere interest in this is of course desperate, creepy and weird, so why wouldn't you expect rich kids to be sketched out by your status-climbing low born offspring? Exactly.

Liberals Arts education is for rich people's kids or pretenders.. CS is the way to go right now. Get those 500K salaries (by the time you are 30) and marry someone of similar "pedigree". F'ck the rich. Become rich on your own terms. Such a couple can easily end up with 20 mil+ by the time they want to retire.

This is how generations pivot and family trees change, people!

I personally studied liberal arts. CS was for the awkward way back then...

Smart kids are doing combo of STEM and liberal arts/humanities to become more desirable for employers.

This^^^

I always encourage kids who choose the LA/Humanities (non stem) majors to consider a minor/focus on something STEM or business. Basically, major in what you love, but pick a minor that will help make you more marketable/make it a bit easier to get a job. Not a ton of jobs that say "looking for an English or art history major", but those majors with the right minor will make your very marketable

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Anonymous wrote:The better the college, the less important the major. Easy to find employment as a humanities major if you went to HYP or AWS, much harder if you went to a relatively lower ranked school. Then again, a high percentage of graduates from these top schools go on to graduate school, so having a philosophy or theology degree is less important in terms of income than getting accepted into a top law school.

I agree.

Not really. Even the humanities majors at HYPS have a hard time finding a job if they don't go to grad school.

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Anonymous wrote:At Harvard a high % of kids major in CS, which surprises as I thought it hardly matters what you major in if you get in there.

But if you’re at a state school, especially a “lower tier” one, the history or English majors are going to be teaching high school. You’d be wise to major in nursing, CS, engineering or accounting at such a school. Nothing wrong with that, but they’re not going to be recruited to IB.

Very true.

LOL no. You all obviously have no idea at all what you're talking about and should really stop embarrassing yourselves like this. I've never known a history or English major with any brains at all to have any trouble getting a well-paying job if that's what they wanted. Yes, including those from "lower tier" state schools. Nobody cares where you got your degree from except this subset of desperate social climbers here on DCUM.[/quote]

NP here. You are making a generalization based on your experience, but your experience may not apply to the entire professional world. For example, I know from personal experience that, in some professions, it does matter where you got your degree from. In a truly fair world, maybe this would not be the case, but it just is the case.