<p>Artists can make an excellent living. Most artist programs train their students in graphic arts along with more traditional arts.</p>
<p>Textile arts, ceramic arts, etc etc etc all have direct vocational applications.</p>
<p>Lawyers and bankers are being laid off by the thousands. </p>
<p>I don’t think one major can reasonably said to lead to more jobs than another, with the exceptions of health care (always needed) and engineering (not everyone has the skill set for.)</p>
<p>My parents thought I was insane for studying literature and then get a PhD (had to pay for myself) but I have taught at the college level for 25+ years, 23 of them in a tenured, full-time position.</p>
<p>I really think “follow your bliss” is the best advice to kids as long as there’s commitment and follow through.</p>
<p>Parent of an arts major here. How would you define “best art school”? Is it the school with the big name or could it be a smaller very unknown school with an outstanding TEACHER in your child’s art field?</p>
<p>Personally, I think either choice would define “best”.</p>
<p>Both my kids have looked at reputation of their intended majors vs. “prestige.” To them, there is a difference. This is how UChicago and Harvey Mudd were the last two schools standing for S1. It’s why S2’s top choices are great in his intended field but not necessarily big “name grabbers.”</p>
<p>Both of my kids noticed that when S1 says “University of Chicago,” there are always some who say “isn’t that a public school?” (This includes their grandmother, who lived on the south side of Chicago and in Skokie for 20 years.) They also see the reaction of people who know Chicago’s reputation and “get it” – and the respect these people accord the school.</p>
<p>I’m sure we all have the same definition of “best,” right? It means, you know, the one that’s better than all of the others. Probably whichever one U.S. News & World Report ranks highest. That’s the best one.</p>
<p>I hope this is a joke. USNews does not rank places like conservatories of music. Nor do they know about the private music instructors at all the various schools of music.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Facetians were conquered and enslaved by the Pedantans in the 4th century BC, who in turn were overrun by the aggressive Sarcasts three centuries later. Thus, there are far more people today who speak in a Pedantic or Sarcastic dialect than speak in a Facetious one.</p>
<p>Going back to the original post…I think your analysis is very sensible. If he gets into something like HYPS (or MIT or a few other schools in that galaxy) then yeah–pay up–but especially if he is interested in the physical sciences, go for the in state option. You can go to Cow U and if you major in physics I’m fairly certain you will not be driving the forklift at Costco.</p>
<p>Coureur is too discreet to mention that the collision of civilizations between the Pedantans and the Sarcasts resulted in a polyglot hybrid, the Pederasts. But I’m not.</p>
Yes. S’s GC told him she’d never had a student apply there (I think she’s been a GC for five or so years?). S’s classmates seemed clueless about it, but one girl (the val) who is more knowledgeable about colleges outside our state than most, “got it” when ds told her he’d been accepted.</p>
<p>And just how ridiculous would my statements have to be for you to be sure that I am kidding? I’m having a little fun testing the limits of what people will take seriously.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately, the Facetians were conquered and enslaved by the Pedantans in the 4th century BC, who in turn were overrun by the aggressive Sarcasts three centuries later. Thus, there are far more people today who speak in a Pedantic or Sarcastic dialect than speak in a Facetious one.”</p>
<p>Post-graduate theses in linguistic socio-paleontology catalogue eruptions of Sarcastic semiotics in the rolling-eye smiley, utterances like “No duh” and “Thank you Captain Obvious”; instances of Cynical judgmentalism (thought to have died out post-Diogenes in the Age of Irony) are also marked and usually begin with “Well” or “Look” as in “Well, clearly that’s typical of people like you” or “Look, it’s pointless”, particularly on unmoderated fora.</p>
I’m having a little fun testing the limits of what people will take seriously.</p>