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Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:45:57 2020 No.11586158 [Reply] [Original]

Is it possible to go to grad school for STEM with just a BA in the humanities?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:48:18 2020 No.11586166 >>11586158 Yes, but you will likely have to take like a year of ketchup undergrad courses

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:54:17 2020 No.11586181 >>11586158 Our guy Witten did it. And so did Halmos

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 23:02:05 2020 No.11586762 >>11586166 Is that an essential prerequisite or is it possible to build up a supplementary resume interning/working in a related field?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 23:04:26 2020 No.11586768 >>11586762 depends on the school

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 23:04:56 2020 No.11586771 >>11586762 Industrial work experience is usually not particularly useful in academics. This is like asking if a physics major is ready to do an English lit PhD because he worked at a newspaper for a year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 23:57:11 2020 No.11586911 >>11586771 I feel like that's not necessarily true. If said physics major had a decorated resume of published articles, you don't think that would make a difference?