Does a college minor hold it's own weight??

latetoschool
Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:06:04 +0000

Funny, my D will graudate with minors in Chemistry, Religion, Sociology, and Anthropology (I thought it was going to be classical antiquities but guess not), and she’s trying to see if she can get in enough credit by the end of this year to add Arabic as the fifth minor, though this is doubtful - something about it would require 500 level classes with 400 level, whatever that means.

I have no idea how this is going to translate into anything anyone is going to pay her to do, but, it’s made her an interesting target - lots of potential employers have been approaching her and what they want to talk about most is the mix of minors - I hope the discussions are because they’re considering a knowledge base they can use, vs. along the lines of “why are you so weird”. She’s interested in federal law enforcement.

It might have made sense to add something from the business school to this mix - finance, for example…but… I’d just be guessing.