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Humanities & Social Sciences
How to stand out as a future English, history, philosophy, politics, economics, or languages major, including writing, research, competitions, summer programs, and the "pre-law" question.
Humanities and social science applicants often worry they have nothing to "show" the way a STEM student with a robot does. They do. Readers look for intellectual curiosity, serious reading and writing, original thinking, and engagement with the world.
This chapter shows how to build and show that: research and writing you can point to, competitions that carry weight, the best summer programs, and what "pre-law" really means...
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What’s in this chapter
- 1How admissions works for these fields
- 2What stands out
- 3Courses
- 4Your writing is your evidence
- 5The "pre-law" question
- 6Consider liberal arts colleges