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Why do Business Majors do poorly on the LSAT?
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:24 PM Author: translucent cruel-hearted lettuce This link shows which undergrad majors do the best on the LSAT http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2008/04/which-undergrad.html
This link shows the same thing, but limits the results to majors with more than 2200 students taking the LSAT. http://www.wsbe.unh.edu/node/13830
I think Math, Physics, Engineering, and Economics majors probably do well because better students and smarter students tend to gravitate toward those sub specialties. You may have 5000 sophomores choosing between business, accounting, economics, and finance. (I'm sure some are choosing between economics and history or philosophy, I don't know.)
As a business Major, I'm just happy I scored well above the average for business majors. Still, I'm somewhat surprised that business majors score under 150 on average. Is this because the best and brightest business minded folks focus on another, more specialized field?
I'm also not surprised at all that criminal justice is at the bottom of the barrel. I sincerely think you have to be stupid to choose that major.
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:26 PM Author: henna theatre dog poop lol at "prelaw" coming in last. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669727) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 2:32 PM Author: Aromatic Brilliant Wrinkle Elite schools don't offer business or prelaw as a major.
Mid-tier schools offer business but not prelaw as a major.
SPS schools offer business and prelaw as majors. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 6:08 PM Author: Beady-eyed step-uncle's house messiness "The impressive results for Physics, Math, Philosophy, and Economics must, one suspects, be credited in part to self-selection, but some surely reflects the intellectual rigor and demands of these courses of study."
lol no.. only the dumbest of the dumb physics/math majors take the LSAT. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 6:50 PM Author: Ultramarine violent cruise ship lol i know / know of tons of highest honors/summa/magna STEM bros pwning at V10s and equivalent (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20671716) |
Date: May 11th, 2012 1:27 PM Author: Mustard Site Chad Physics, Math, Econ and Philosophy students tend to score the highest on all standardized tests (LSAT, MCAT, GRE). The more vocational majors (health sciences, business, criminal justice, communications) tend to score the lowest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669731) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:30 PM Author: spectacular bawdyhouse haunted graveyard Elite schools mostly don't have business as a major, so you have a naturally higher percentage of dumbs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669756) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:35 PM Author: translucent cruel-hearted lettuce Really? So the elite schools only offer Masters of Business Administration and not a BS/BA in Business Admin? |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:42 PM Author: bistre public bath other than wharton, nyu, and a handful of other places, you can't get an undergrad degree in business at reasonably elite/solid schools. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669825) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:36 PM Author: henna theatre dog poop lol at Leiter's completely transparent motivation for posting that list. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669792) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:37 PM Author: Lilac Hell Sex Offender Business is known everywhere as an easy major (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669796) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:39 PM Author: translucent cruel-hearted lettuce I think business was a very easy major. At my school, the people who majored in business just didn't want to deal with accounting, finance, or econ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669810) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:52 PM Author: Passionate poppy school fat ankles you have to be truly retarded or extremely lazy to not want to deal with that softbatch material (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669878) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 6:51 PM Author: Startled gas station cumskin (turdskin faggot in the fight of his life to pass intermediate micro) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20671719) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 6:49 PM Author: avocado generalized bond Wait a minute, there was a business major at your school that was not accounting or finance? wtf was it then? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20671709) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:40 PM Author: Ivory senate most biz majors have to write themselves sticky note reminders to keep breathing so they don't accidentally suffocate.
lol at computer science. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:41 PM Author: Crystalline Parlour Community Account government=political science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669820) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:43 PM Author: Vengeful ladyboy because they tend to be stupid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669830) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 1:57 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy blathering den background story If you look at people who get good finance jobs, they tend to be ivy econ undergrad, 2 years as an analyst, MBA. "Business" majors at TTTs think that they are going to be in the running for these jobs but they wind up working at a Chase branch or doing back-office shit in Jersey City. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20669917) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 2:00 PM Author: exhilarant mediation locale Greetings, Because business attracts intellectually non-curious, risk averse dumbs. No interests in life, so they pick the thing that sounds like it will net them money. Business = prole mommy and daddy told me to go to college, but I'm not smart enough for the "sure thing" professions like engineering. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 2:48 PM Author: aquamarine startling brunch reading party u sound slightly mad about dem business majors brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20670170) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 2:47 PM Author: translucent cruel-hearted lettuce Business also allows you to work more during the school year and finish faster than the "sure thing" degrees.
I worked full-time and finished my bachelors in 3 years. That's virtually impossible in a physics or engineering program.
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Date: May 11th, 2012 2:48 PM Author: grizzly home yarmulke 1. The best schools don't have UG business programs 2. The best UG business school students major in finance not business admin 3. Most students study business in UG to go straight to work, not to law school,so the LSAT takers might be below-average as a representative group |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 6:52 PM Author: Irradiated location most smart business majors self-select off the law school track and into something more lucrative and satisfying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20671730) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 7:11 PM Author: citrine stead It's less that top schools don't offer business majors (plenty of decent ones do), but that business is the GO-TO major at true TTTs. At really shitty schools, people only want to do vocational majors, so the half that aren't doing welding do business. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946121&forum_id=2#20671823) |