| Just a few observations from my own experience. At the GSAP at Columbia I was in a post-professional degree program, but it is a small school and I shared a lot of courses with the MArch students. The MArch's were about 50% students with a four year architecture degree from places like Penn State, Florida, Virginia, and about 50% who were English majors form Harvard, Philosophy majors from Smith, or similar majors from some other prominent LAC.
I thought I was well educated, but it is a humbling experience to be in a theory course with a philosophy major from a top LAC. There is a big gap between 8 hours a day spent in the studio and 8 hours a day spent in the library. I have been trying to close that educational gap ever since.
Some of these folks with LAC backgrounds found out that they had strong visual gifts, and they were able to close the gap on the architecture majors very quickly. Their visual gifts combined with their educational background made them very formidable architects. The ones who discovered they did not have visual gifts seemed to specialize in 'talkitecture', and either ended up teaching, writing, or becoming project managers. They still seem pretty happy to me.
There are lots of paths that can lead to a rewarding career in this industry, it just may take a while to discover where your interests and talents lie.
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