The degree with most employability nowadays is computer science. Even from a no-name college, can get jobs at a lot of big companies. CS degrees are valued, even in finance industries.
Too early to get him to pick a major.
If the DE allows access to the collegeās entire catalog (subject to scheduling and prerequisites), then he can try to add electives that can help him determine what he is most interested in.
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But is that the only uni he may attend? Are there others that he may be admitted to that may cost less and may be preferable?
Economics and finance majors may vary in level of math and statistics use across different schools.
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Adding to the above postā¦is this the only college to which he will send an application in a couple of years?
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Just because heās guaranteed admission doesnāt mean he has to go to that school. If he decides thatās what heāll do, itās great - but a student like you describe is certainly not locked in.
I think theyāll find schools with programs in social justice, peace studies, and more - or may even create their own major.
In this case, to me, Econ would trump finance - unless they wanted hard skills to apply to an leading an organization of interest, etc.
I think thereās lots of time to figure this out- and that includes where the student goes (unless theyāre 100% committed to only this specific school). You have many schools that give extra scholarship $$ to interests like this. College of Charleston has the Ketner, for example, and others have similar (CU Boulder I know).
You might also look at the Shepherd Poverty Program schools.
Member Schools | The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium On Poverty (shepherdconsortium.org)
Depending on the school, economics majors may have some financial economics electives in the economics department, and (if the finance / business major is not full) may be able to take finance electives in the business department as well. In that case, the difference may be more in terms of non-finance courses ā an economics major will typically take intermediate micro and macro economics and econometrics plus elective upper level economics courses, while a finance / business major will take various business courses as part of the major requirements.
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Sounds like he should look into an economics degree (with a quantitative minor if not already offered) and a gender studies minor.
MIT is good with the economic impact of gender - economics of divorce, salary negociations by gender, etc.
Urban planning could be a good major, too.
Rather than trying to figure a major as a dual enrolled HS student, he should take as many courses in all social sciences as possible (not just economics, but also geography, policy, gender studies, sociology, poli sci, anthropology, psychology, even interpersonal communication) as well as applied math courses (calculus then calculus-based statistic+data science) as his CC will allow. Of course he needs to take through level 4 or higher in a foreign language and have the basics covered in English&Science.
His goal should be to keep his DE credits and HS graduation credits to then apply to solid universities where heāll use these DE credits as a strong foundation for his interests. He wonāt be the only one starting college with an advanced foundation and at a college with a lot of resources he will find ways to develop his interests.
Run the NPC on MIT, Brown, and American University (these 3 would have different methods of calculating your SAI).
If these are out of budget or donāt seem in line with his abilities, investigate honors colleges/programs and ways to increase rigor (adding quantitative courses, graduate courses in Economics&Gender studies, for instance).
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