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Originally posted by mu_agd
how the h*ll would a high school pressure someone into majoring in something?? i have never heard of a school here doing that, they will offer guidance to you when getting ready to apply and after you have been accepted to a school, but they don't push you into a particular major. they find out what you want to do and help you work towards that. and if someone doesn't have the balls to say that s/he doesn't want to major in one thing any more, s/he wants to switch but doesn't, then i'm sorry, but s/he gets absolutely no sympathy for me regardless of whether they stay at home or work.
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There are schools that subtly do that. We don't know if the girl on the show went to an all girls' school or not, but I do know that many have seminars on women in maths and sciences, and try to steer girls away from more traditional majors. It usually doesn't work all that well, but I can tell you that over half the girls take more than one math course in their senior year and almost all take one math.