<p>I've noticed that I'm one of very very few future English majors on here.</p>
<p>anyone else going that way?</p>
<p>if so where are you applying and such?</p>
<p>english major. attending ucla this fall. 2 weeks in fact.</p>
<p>I'm not sure, right now I'm set on engineering, but if I feel up to it in college, I'm going to go for a minor or double major in English just because I really enjoy it and would like to study it more in depth.</p>
<p>I'm applying to Stanford (one of their example double majors was actually engineering and English), Santa Clara, U Delaware, U Maryland, and I don't know where else at the moment.</p>
<p>This thread reminded me of a musical:</p>
<p>"What do you do with a B.A. in English?
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college,
And plenty of knowledge
Have earned me this useless degree</p>
<p>But somehow I can't shake
the feeling I might make
a difference to the human rrrrraaaacceeee."
-Avenue Q</p>
<p>I'm planning on declaring an English major; I just started college two weeks ago.</p>
<p>Me! (Future) Applying EA to UNC and RD to UVA...hoping for the best.</p>
<p><em>raises hand</em></p>
<p>I'd like to have a second major in either English, Literature, or Classics. I haven't decided which one yet. Like Bing, I just started school (Duke).</p>
<p>yep, i'm bound to be one of them. related I'd say would be Journalism, English Literature, American Literature, Creative Writing (<3 my unrealistic dream)</p>
<p>ps - my pool of applications is comprised almost exclusively of liberal arts schools, what a shocker. (specif. - bard, vassar, wesleyan, oberlin, amherst)</p>
<p>I'm going to major in linguistics, I think, but it's sort of English-y.</p>
<p>I'm applying to the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, Syracuse University...and some other LACs, I think.</p>
<p>Are creative writing programs that hard to get into?</p>
<p>That's a good observation, actually. There don't seem to be nearly as many English majors as any of the other disciplines.</p>
<p>it's not that a Creative Writing program would necessarily be hard to get into, just impractical in the job market.</p>
<p>i mean, what kind of market IS there for creative writing?? i'd say my IDEAL jobs of interest would lie in writing, poetry, or work at a literary magazine. like i said before- unrealistic.</p>
<p>I think that if someone took a creative writing program, doubled it with a "solid" major, (engineering, bio, psych., etc.) and did well, it would give that person a considerable advantage in entering a job market such as writing for a lit mag/journal than a different person who majors in something solid as a safety but pursues the writing market anyways.</p>
<p>If you want to do something, even if it's risky, do it. If you can't, then you'll learn more about yourself in the process than you did before, anyways.</p>
<p>thanks, meatmountain!</p>
<p>imagine: encouragement on CC... and i thought it was all one big bragging, cutthroat competition</p>
<p>I'm thinking of being an English or Comparative Literature major, and I'm applying to Brown ED. I know what you mean, though; it seems like everyone is going into science...</p>
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<p>Yeah, it's scary. 90% of the stuff I see on these boards major-wise is either science or engineering. Where's the humanities? I'm going into Philosophy and possibly English myself, so...</p>
<p>I DEFINITELY thought Avenue Q when I read this thread's title. I might end up as an English major, but I have no idea what I want to do with my life right now, so we'll see.</p>