<p>My son hates English! Can he survive at Caltech? His Sat Math: 790 and the 3 subject test were Chem, Math II, Phys all 760. All of his EC's are science based.</p>
<p>He doesn't mind reading good literature, but he doesn't want to "share" his "feelings". The only time he has used the words "I" and "feel" together are in a "I feel" essay.</p>
<p>A lot of people here hate English, me included. The English classes here are fairly easy. We do have some discussions, but as long as he says something at some point, he'll pass. </p>
<p>As for surviving at Tech, those test scores are pretty meaningless for telling if he can. He'll certainly be considered in admissions, but pretty much everyone here has test scores like that (or at least everyone I've met). You can't tell whether or not you'll survive Core based on test scores from some very basic math and science questions.</p>
<p>I think some more relevant info would be: does he have an undying passion for science, and is he a hard worker?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that you are required to take 2 freshman humanities and 2 advanced humanities classes. Almost all humanities classes require at least 4000 words of writing. There are some humanities subjects (e.g. history, history and philosophy of science) which probably don't require that much sharing of feelings.</p>
<p>at least we know he's not an emo</p>
<p>I don't think that your son hating English will impact him negatively if he came to Caltech. Like Dauntless said, a lot of people here don't like English or <insert non-science="" subject=""> here.</insert></p>
<p>Thank you to all, who have responded, for the information!</p>
<p>My son can write about science, history or anything fact based. He is very logical and only has a problem when he has to write about his feelings.</p>
<p>He has written 4000+ word science research papers, and he is working on a science fiction novel.</p>
<p>I didn't have English courses in high school which discussed "feelings." Not to advocate in any way that we need more English majors, but you can actually analyze a book and there is value in reading. Does that mean you should go to college to read the great books? No, you should go to college to be a productive member of society who ideally has read a bit.</p>
<p>I think of essays like proofs, not soapboxes.
So I've never seen humanities classes as a place where you went to talk about your feelings.
But maybe I'm just weird.</p>
<p>I don't think we have those "i feel" classes here. We usually just have "use logic and make an argument/proof" classes.</p>