<p>hahahahahaha, I hate to laugh this concern off, but I’ll try to explain what I mean.</p>
<p>First, I’m curious where the quote comes from.</p>
<p>But even before that, U of C students are too cynical, sarcastic, and-- dare I say it-- smart to sail smoothly with most run-of-the-mill recruiters, if I go by the recruiters that I’ve talked to. If you look at the Uncommon essay questions and compare them to boilerplate interview questions, you’ll see exactly what I mean.</p>
<p>Second, employability, from what I’ve seen, is a lot about how you market yourself and where you want to end up, not what you study. The U of C should spend more time helping history and English majors learn how to talk up their degree and how it relates to their field of interest, that’s for sure, but that’s the student’s fault, not the degree’s fault. And yeah, some of us students have no idea of what we want to do when we leave school. That’s our fault.</p>
<p>Third, from the alumni notes section (hardly scientific, but a source nonetheless) U of C grads go on to do lots of creative things in higher numbers than the alumni in the other alumni magazine notes I’ve read. I can imagine that a lot of U of C grads might resent or be a bad fit for Working for The Man, while the Notre Dame and Northwestern grads might be just fine with that job (gross overgeneralization.) But to drive the point home a bit further, whenever I talk to my friends about what we want to do or what our parents do, a few job categories come up more often than I’d expect. One of those job groupings is education and academia (“When my dad got his PhD in sociology here…”) and the other is entrepreneurship.</p>
<p>I say this as somebody whose whole family is a bunch of entrepreneurs with nothing more than liberal arts degrees, including degrees in history and music.</p>