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<p>While that may be the case for job prospects and pay levels, career choices that may be influence by choice of major can also be more or less suitable based on the person’s interest. E.g. an English degree from Harvard may get one into an elite consulting job, but won’t help someone get an engineering job if s/he decides that engineering is what s/he is really interested in.</p>
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<p>There was another thread about it at <a href=“The Economic Price of Colleges’ Failures - Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1683035-the-economic-price-of-colleges-failures.html</a> . Some other articles relating to this study indicate that CLA score improvements were greatest at the least competitive colleges, but the senior year CLA scores at the least competitive colleges were still lower than the senior year CLA scores at the most competitive colleges.</p>