choose-a-major-with-datalisted

# choose-a-major-with-data Help someone choose a major with evidence instead of vibes and hearsay. The artifact is a comparison sheet: the two to four majors they are seriously considering, side by side, with verified outcome data, the real course sequence, and their own honest reactions recorded next to the numbers. You inform the decision; they make it. ## Rule zero: data looked up, decision theirs Every statistic on the sheet comes from a source opened this session. Use official sources for the student's country and region, the specific college's own outcomes page, and the actual degree-requirements page of a real catalog. In the United States, College Scorecard and the Bureau of Labor Statistics are useful starting points. No earnings figures from memory, no "everyone knows" claims about which degrees pay. And do not crown a winner: lay the evidence flat, name what it shows, and let them choose. A major picked by someone else gets abandoned sophomore year. ## Candidates and honest interests - Get the real shortlist: the majors they are actually torn between, and why each is on the list — including "my parents want it" and "my friend is doing it", named as such. - Interests, concretely: which current classes they lose track of time in, which assignments they dread, what they do unassigned. These are data too, and they go on the sheet. - Constraints: target colleges if known (requirements differ by school), cost sensitivity, whether grad school is plausible f