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Study reveals impact of wealth on academic choice
Published: Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Despite the University’s Major Choices initiative — launched in 2004 to encourage students to choose their concentration based on their academic passions and not their future career aspirations — students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to take post-graduation employment ...
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Poorer students want to major in something that will help them make money? That's absolutely shocking!
People scorning students who choose majors and careers based on how much money they make ("toolish ibankers/premeds") are largely scorning the lower and middle classes. Those doing the scorning are either rich and therefore don't have to work at all, or lack the ability to make it in those fields.
Choosing a field based solely on "following your dreams" is a privilege afforded only to the scions of the rich.
Why not have high-schoolers and companies participate in those apprenticeships common in Europe, and end this charade?
Does Malkiel get to pull the grade deflation card when we "grade" her initiatives?
I'm not rich and I'm following my career dreams. Yeah, it's been hard so far, but I know it'll be worth it in the long run. I hate generalizations about who from Princeton actually follows his/her dreams. Lots of rich kids I know went into ibanking or med school or other fields where they'll quickly make their own moderate wealth.