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Anonymous wrote:My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering. However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education. The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings. I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day. I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.

So you think liberal arts colleges are useless?

Anonymous wrote:My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering. However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education. The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings. I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day. I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.

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Anonymous wrote:You're frustrated with Pomona, because they didn't take you into a humanities seminar? I don't have any connection with it, but it certainly invests heavily in the humanities: Just from one google search https://www.pomona.edu/administration/humanities-studio
https://www.pomona.edu/museum/about
https://colleges.claremont.edu/thehive/
https://www.pomona.edu/arts

Their English department also invests heavily in knifing each other.

Anonymous wrote:You're frustrated with Pomona, because they didn't take you into a humanities seminar? I don't have any connection with it, but it certainly invests heavily in the humanities: Just from one google search https://www.pomona.edu/administration/humanities-studio
https://www.pomona.edu/museum/about
https://colleges.claremont.edu/thehive/
https://www.pomona.edu/arts

Anonymous wrote:Be very careful when looking at smaller schools for the humanities. We learned the hard way. For majors such as history, where there is no set of required core courses in the major, the classes offered depend solely on the interest of the faculty. So if the department is small, odds are there will not be a lot of classes of interest until your student's interests match up really well with one or two of the professors'.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LACs often feel like they need to prove that they’re strong in STEM; people don’t understand that the liberal arts include most STEM disciplines (except for engineering), so the schools sometimes overcompensate on tours. And as another person mentioned, science buildings are often the shiniest and most impressive.

I would recommend doing deeper research into their humanities offerings before discarding these excellent schools.

I think people are right in correcting op, but they aren’t totally wrong. As a grad of one of the institutions they mentioned, there’s so much more emphasis on science and math than the past. My Alma mater went from a very humanities heavy institution to a majority Econ-math college that just doesn’t reflect the college I went to.

It’s really disheartening to see how pre professional students are. I get consistent LinkedIn requests asking for coffee chats and career advice and this only started in the past 10 or so years.

Can totally see this.

Conversation I recently had with a Student at my Alma mater:
“How was the career center when you were a student”
“Career center? It didn’t exist? We probably would’ve laughed if anyone entered a career center back then”
“Well, how did you get jobs?”
“We just…did.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LACs often feel like they need to prove that they’re strong in STEM; people don’t understand that the liberal arts include most STEM disciplines (except for engineering), so the schools sometimes overcompensate on tours. And as another person mentioned, science buildings are often the shiniest and most impressive.

I would recommend doing deeper research into their humanities offerings before discarding these excellent schools.

I think people are right in correcting op, but they aren’t totally wrong. As a grad of one of the institutions they mentioned, there’s so much more emphasis on science and math than the past. My Alma mater went from a very humanities heavy institution to a majority Econ-math college that just doesn’t reflect the college I went to.

It’s really disheartening to see how pre professional students are. I get consistent LinkedIn requests asking for coffee chats and career advice and this only started in the past 10 or so years.