“I singled out “creative writing”, not to bash the value of creative writing, but to highlight the potential to pay back the 6-figure loan w the expected starting salary for that major.”
Why do you believe that someone majoring in creative writing (or any other liberal arts major) expects to get a job in that field at all?
There was a thread awhile back where a bunch of people knew kids or had a kid who got a job at Google right out of college who majored in Art History.
My kid majored in Politics and minored in history with no intention of going into either field. He was accepted into one of the few remaining exec corporate training programs in the country with not a single business course taken (the college didn’t even offer any.)
Imo, the limiting majors are those which are job specific.