<p>Students wouldn’t necessarily only learn about artistic culture of course; and understanding of the history of the region, and the language, would provide a huge benefit.</p>
<p>I’ve edited the link I used into the above post. The reason I used it is because I had it bookmarked from when I was trying to convince my mother to accept my Classics major; the author is biased but the numbers, as far as I can tell, are accurate.</p>
<p>The self selection idea is surely true; humanities majors pursuing medical school still have to take basic hard science courses, of course. I would argue that as a whole we shouldn’t use these test scores to determine the intelligence or ability of anyone in any major, but I provided the numbers to counter b@r!um.</p>