I hope most kids don’t worry about how they will be perceived in terms of being “smarter” when they pick a major. With my oldest, he wanted to apply ED and we toured the physics and engineering departments. The choice to apply to physics (in arts and sciences) or engineering was left totally up to him.
Great. PG. but you often don’t seem to clarify your negative, sweeping comments until after the fact. Honestly, the most pretentious, obnoxious college kid I’ve come across lately was an English major, but I figure (and hope) this kid is not representative of most English majors!