At some point, usually around junior year of high school, someone will ask your teenager the question that sounds perfectly reasonable… but is actually a little ridiculous: “So…what do you want to do with your life?”

There is a moment in the college application process when a teenager is asked a deceptively simple question: What do you want to study?

A four-year degree used to be the unquestioned ticket to career success. But something is shifting on college campuses, and it's not just the cost of tuition.