<p>Citation X, it’s pretty obvious you don’t know too much about the URM students who get into MIT. I know two of them myself. One of them eats, breathes, sleeps, and dreams math. The other has won national recognition for his research into extremophiles and his mathematical models of subatomic particles. Yeah, they’re really dragging down the white kids at MIT. :rolls eyes</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m sure there are alot of people at my son’s high school who would be very suprised to hear that his 800 scores on the SAT1 was CR not Math.</p>
<p>As an engineer myself, I agree with StickerShock that most engineers don’t appreciate how hard the humanities are. I know there is no way I could do anything like the work that humanities majors in good universities routinely do.</p>
<p>oct123, I bet you could do the work, but you may not have an aptitude for humanities nor a desire to tackle it. That works in reverse, as well. To be really strong in either field takes a great deal of work and talent (in that order.) I just don’t agree that either field is inherently more difficult than the other.</p>
<p>StickerShock, I am with you that neither is inherently more difficult than the other, and that both humanities and science/engineering take a great deal of work and talent. But I am inclined to believe that talent comes first, when it comes to producing really high quality work, such as the ability to write a great book or be a great musician, or in general to be at the level of someone who is considered an expert in the field.</p>