@nxthompson@DavidBrooks224 I distinctly recall a high school classmate (circa 2014) who wrote in her SAT essay that the arts were equally as important as STEM, despite not believing it. She got into MIT, so it clearly worked for her.
This kind of development is really depressing to me. All kinds of weird little colleges in the Northeast are closing. Nobody wants to double major in literature and kombucha-making anymore. Everyone just wants to work for Jane Street or an AI lab.
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