[loja_ecuador]

I am a native English speaker and an American. I would never major in English because the grades are too subjective. I would not want to put my future outside of my own hands.

I prefer my grades to be based on quantifiable data, not subjective gobbledy-gook.

[_delirium]

I dunno, the grades are pretty subjective in a lot of majors. I'm TAing for a machine-learning / data-mining class right now, and the assignments aren't mostly ones with objectively correct answers (it'd be easier to grade if they were). Instead, I have to read their writeups and determine if they picked interesting problems and formulated coherent hypotheses; if they used algorithms suited to those problems and explained why; if they demonstrated knowledge of how choices in algorithms or parameters would affect their results; and if they knew how to interpret the results properly and use a mixture of graphs and prose to effectively convey them.

It's possible it's less fuzzy, but there's still a good deal of fuzziness...

[jon_dahl]

put my future outside of my own hands

Unless you're going on for further schooling, grades don't matter at all. Employers certainly don't look at them. Study what you love and work hard, no matter the grades.