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Regarding your SAT fact. I don’t think we can equate high verbal SAT scores with the Humanities (if that is what you inferred.)

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Bringing SAT scores in was kind of silly, as it almost always is. But pzhon's point is right on. Plenty of physicists and mathematicians enjoy reading a pretty broad range of things and are far more educated (relatively) about various fields of the humanities than the average humanities student is about math or physics. Here's a pretty famous quote on this subject by C.P.Snow:

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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: 'Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?'
I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question -- such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, 'Can you read?' -- not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic ancestors would have had.

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I don't think it's quite as extreme as this, but this is pretty close.