How competitive are Humanities/Liberal Arts thingers?

College Majors
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<p>I originally intended on going into college Undeclared, but due to recent circumstances with my senior year, I think I'm going to express an interest in majoring in either Humanities or Liberal Arts with minors in German and Latin/Classics. How competitive are these majors for schools in general? I'm looking at NYU, GWU, Emory, USC, etc. If you'd like any more supplemental information, just ask, and I'll add.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Edit: Whoa...my title for this post is just...wow. You know you're tired when you've typed something like that without realizing it.</p>

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<p>Do most colleges let you major in "Humanities" or "Liberal Arts"? My liberal arts college forces us to declare a specific major within the humanities or liberal arts, e.g. history or English.</p>

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<p>Hm, I dunno. See, I'm not going for LAC's, and the websites for the schools I am looking at say that they have a department for Humanities and Liberal Arts. I have no idea.</p>

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<p>i've seen a major just called 'liberal arts' before. Pretty broad. not sure what they would make you take... just an extention of gen edS?</p>

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<p>Generally schools will have categories (humanities, liberal arts, social sciences, sciences, etc.) and then many majors under that broad category to choose from. If you give me the name of a school you're looking at I can find it for you.</p>

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<p>Here's what NYU's website says. It's an example of how most schools work. I hope this helps to clarify things. To explore NYU more, go to this page: New</a> York University > Academics and on the left side check out "schools" and "academic departments."</p>

<p>Schools
Arts & Science
Arts & Science consists of the College of Arts & Science, the Graduate School of Arts & Science, and the Liberal Studies Program. The College offers the B.A. and the B.S. degrees in a wide range of programs in the humanities, science, social sciences, and foreign languages and literatures. The Liberal Studies Program offers a Global Liberal Studies B.A. degree, and an A.A. degree.</p>

<p>The Liberal Studies program is in addition to a major. Global Liberal Studies is an interdisciplinary major that you can look into more here: Global</a> Liberal Studies</p>

<p>But in answer to your original question, liberal arts is generally not a very competitive major to get into/stay in.</p>

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<p>I'm a freshman at GW in a classics class, and I can tell you that - at least from what little I've experienced - there isn't much competiton in classics here. The competition comes from the medical school and the political science/internation affiars departments.</p>

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<p>Some of the more popular humanities majors (English, History, Comparative Literature, and to a lesser extent, Art History and Philosophy) will have greater competition. Social Science majors (sociology, anthropology, political science, economics and psychology) are definitely more popular than humanities majors.</p>