Boston College Class of 2017 Waitlist Thread

bluebayou
Tue, 28 May 2013 11:20:31 +0000

The other majors are like all pre med or pre law majors.



Those are not majors. (Only a handful of colleges actually have a pre-health or pre-law major.) The largest majors in A&S are Communications and Psych. Sure, approx. 20-25% of incoming frosh are pre-health, but that is true at every undergraduate college. BC is no different in that regard.

Yes, at colleges without undergrad biz programs, a typical pre-biz is an Econ major. Think about it: of the Ivies, only Cornell offers undergrad biz as a stand-alone. (Sure, Penn has Wharton, but even Wharton undergrads major in Econ, not undergrad biz.) Grads of Dartmouth’s Econ program do rather well when applying for jobs on Wall Street. (If it were my kid, I’d recommend a liberal arts degree for undergrad, and then MBA.)



The core curriculum is great but if you are in arts and sciences, not education or business or nursing, where do you get the skills to make above 50k a year.



Ed majors need to pick up an A&S major/minor discipline as a requirement for graduation. (And not sure what part of the country you are living in, but teaching jobs are hard to come by right now.)

IMO, if you want a vocational major for your kid, then A&S is probably not the correct school. Heck, any liberal arts college is incorrect.