Dad wants a practical major

Canuckguy
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:15:43 +0000

It is MUCH easier to get a campus interview if you have majored or minored in business, econ, math, or CS generally than a softer major.

This dovetails with what the OP’s dad was saying. I heard the same from Laszlo Bock and Jim Manzi as well. Some firms are asking for SAT scores even years after graduation. There is reason in their madness.

And I think that is ridiculous to say that business degrees, even from lower ranked schools, are frowned upon.

I strongly agree. Here in the Great White North I can not think of one school where admission requirements are lower for business than humanities and social sciences. On the contrary, business is a limited admission program in most places while the others are not. So, by definition, the business grads are stronger, on average; in some schools, significantly so.

My feeling is that the OP is all over the place right now. The advantage she has is that she is attending Wellesley, an elite by any measure. This should give her greater flexibility to choose her major and her courses than in lower tier schools. Wants to do economics but not very mathy? Stick with economic history and avoid econometrics is my suggestion.
There is a lot of good advice here. I would only like to add one other: you don’t choose a major; a major chooses you. Give it time and things will work out the way they should.