Keep in mind the kid who does choose college and leaves with a degee in Art History. We're in a different world now where a college degree doesn't open the doors it used to unless it's the right degree. I have a philosophy degree, so it was either law school or McDonald's.
Isn't "philosophy" Latin for what grad schools have you applied to? One of my cousins got his BA/MA in intellectual history. His goal from the start was go to law school. So he chose a major he considered to be interesting to him. He wrote his theis on the writings of Kahlil Gibran. It didn't hurt his research the Gibrans are friends of the family.
Lol! very true. I also chose my major based on the idea that I was going to law school. I did look in the paper's help wanted ads after graduation and, sure enough, not a single ad for "sophist" or philosopher."