Quote Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere View Post
Probably not so rare. But if you say 99% of our graduates a employed in their field, for examp!e and only 50% are and they take massive loans on that basis, it is not right. In many cases people hear what they want to hear and make assumptions. I remember a friend saying you can do anything with an English degree. Maybe so but probably not make enough to pay student loans, live on your own and perhaps not be able support a family.
I have a journalism degree. I have always touted at job interviews that I can write and don’t need spell check (typing on a smart phone here get you weird auto correct results!). A lot of people can’t string coherent sentences together and spell badly. I think it’s been one thing to make me stand out.