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<p>Frankly speaking, if I had to do it all over again, I might have chosen American Studies. The Cal student experience would have been far more enjoyable, and I would surely earned far higher grades, with which I would have likely been admitted to a top law school. Heck, I probably could have graduated in 3, or perhaps even 2 years, incurring a substantial financial savings not only in terms of tuition but more importantly in terms of the opportunity cost of not working. If the issue is that the major would not provide marketable skills, I could have taken 6 months of the time that I had saved by graduating early and used that to train myself on IT skills to the CCIE, SAS Certified Base Programmer, or Oracle Certified Professional/Master level. {Heck, I might have taken Stat 133 on a P/NP or even an audit basis, as that course presumes no prior quantitative knowledge, yet teaches you a bevy of actual practical skills such as CGI, XML and especially R to build database-driven web applications which makes you instantly employable by a host of firms. Furthermore, once you know R, then learning any other statistical software package such as SAS, Stata, or SPSS is elementary.}</p>