Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
I'm truly not joking. These are children 17-21 years of age in colleges and universities from Brown to Cornell to Princeton whose parents have picked what they will major in. They openly admit that. They are astonished that we are permitting our 14yo to make this choice for herself.

I cannot even wrap my head around dictating such a thing to my daughter.

My scholarship was tied to engineering.

So, no engineering, no free college.

I suspect that lots of scholarships are like that.

And it wasn't like I had the slightest idea what I actually wanted to major in, having no actual knowledge of anything but school.