In perusing CC, I have noticed that the overwhelming number of high stats kids interested in top schools seem to be interested in STEM fields. Where are all the potential English, Philosophy, History majors? The closest seems to be international relations as the hot non STEM major.
I know that colleges have seen a decline in humanities majors in the past decade. Would having a very strong humanities focused application be a plus in today’s admissions climate?
perhaps if you come from STEM-oriented (orientally-oriented) origins (damn I spit verse)
but I could live without philosophy majors tbh, not like they actually do anything with that degree anyway
I don’t know why no humanities majors, I know at Texas as people fail out of the STEM majors they tend to change to humanities. Also, I know a few philosophy major types who followed with MBA’s or Systems engineering degrees that are CEO’s or VP of major corps. I don’t know if they would get that undergrad degree again but it certainly did not hold them back. I think one of them said he considers philosophy the art of thinking, which he sees value in. With that said I would be a little afraid of my job prospects if I pursued philosophy.
Maybe all the high stats humanities focused kids don’t feel the need to post on CC?
Just noticing part of your title now…I am going to have to agree.
I don’t know why there aren’t more.
Posters in some threads do seem to inquire about writing programs. And you get some humanities-interest on various LAC threads, but since their student bodies are so much smaller you don’t tend to see them as much on CC in relation to everything else. Some colleges are cutting back their English and language departments because some students don’t see those majors as a path to employment. OTOH, Steve Jobs was a huge proponent of the humanities.
Yeah, maybe the humanities kids are too busy being creative to worry over CC. 
It wasn’t my intention to discuss the value of humanities degrees. (I know the value and feel no need to convince others.) Just wondering if there really was a dearth of them at the upper end. It just seems like all the really high acheivers tend to gravitate towards the STEM majors.
or working minimum-wage jobs
@foolish, a philosophy major at an analytic philosophy program (which is pretty much all of them, or at least 90% of the elite ones in the US) actually will undergo a pretty rigorous education, will be very good at logic, and will be able to handle quantitative disciplines fairly easily.
Other humanities majors are easier targets.
CC is like 70% Asian so based on this demographic, many will be entering STEM fields and the second most popular will be business.
That makes me a minority within the minority… I am an Asian who failed math and science in high school…
I think it’s a CC thing. The college students I know don’t seem so heavily skewed towards STEM majors, and the high school students I know generally express an interest in a humanities or social science field - I have relatively few that say they want to go into a STEM field, and I have never had a high school student ask me in person about the worth of a humanities or social science thing. But it’s like an every day question here.
Thanks all. I guess CC really isn’t a representative group, unless 70% of high stats kids are Asian, which I don’t think is true.
According to a recent US Dept. of Education report, 28% of 4 year students start college in a STEM major, but half leave the field. Of the half who leave, half go to some other major and the other half exit college before earning a degree.