New book: "Excellent Sheep"--The Lower Ambitions of Higher Education

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@Hunt

While the Ivies do vary, my perception of Yale–the school Deresciwiez should theoretically know the most about–is very much at adds with what he says. But my knowledge is only based on having gone there myself, and having one kid who recently graduated and one who is a student there now, so what do I know?

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<p>Yale has only 9% of bachelor’s degrees in pre-professional subjects (11% if you count CS as such), according to <a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/CDS2013_2014.pdf”>http://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/CDS2013_2014.pdf&lt;/a&gt; . English (presumably Deresciwiez’ department) makes up 5%. The largest group is (non-psychology) social studies at 27%, with biological sciences next at 11%.</p>

<p>Of course, that does not stop Wall Street and consulting companies from recruiting a large percentage of graduating seniors.</p>