Is a business major for dumb kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve met brilliant humanities majors and not so bright STEM majors (at least not bright outside of book smarts). DCUM is such a weird place with so much black/white concrete thinking.

STEM brain

[Anonymous]

not always (but very often) dumb kids but selfish, irresponsable, antisocial and greedy kids and that's a big problem for the whole society and the environment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are two tiers of undergrad biz programs. The top tier is competitive. At all the other schools, like SW Indiana State and Northern Mississippi University, it's the easiest major.

Have you ever looked at the curriculum for these state school programs? They take a bunch of surface level classes and hardly do any rigorous reading, writing, or math.

Unfortunately, very true. Less than 10 undergraduate business programs are for top students. Ay, maybe just 5-6. Wharton is the obvious best but there are many Econ degrees at schools
with no undergrad business that are light yrs harder with regards to math intensiveness than non-T5 but above- average US undergrad business.

How is Wharton "light years" harder with regards to math intensiveness than other top universities? It requires MATH 1070 "The Mathematics of Change" (i.e. "we're too ashamed to even call it business calculus"). Compare that to Northwestern, whose undergrad business certificate recommends taking a yearlong math sequence that's even harder than the calc 3 and linear algebra courses that science and engineering majors take (https://www.math.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/menu/).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it that the not very bright types end up majoring in business?

My husband will be the first to admit he isn’t brilliant; he has a BBA and MBA from two different state schools. But he is smart. And he works with a lot of smart people. They understand derivatives and options and make risk based decisions. Their “smarts” are real world smarts. Oh, and he makes millions of dollars. So he really isn’t too cut up that he wasn’t smart enough to get into engineering school.

You, on the other hand...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:not always (but very often) dumb kids but selfish, irresponsable, antisocial and greedy kids and that's a big problem for the whole society and the environment.

A judgmental, antisocial narcissist like you seems to be a bigger problem for the whole of society and the environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not always (but very often) dumb kids but selfish, irresponsable, antisocial and greedy kids and that's a big problem for the whole society and the environment.

A judgmental, antisocial narcissist like you seems to be a bigger problem for the whole of society and the environment.

+1. You (and posters like you) lose all respect and merit once you attack a student. So gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s for kids who want to make decent money but don’t know other options to get there, or don’t have strong interests in other subjects.

I don’t think those kids are dumb but it’s not known for being a tough degree.

I'm not brilliant, and I didn't know what else to major in. I only knew that I had to make money because I come from a low income background.

I'm good at my job in business. Great performance reviews, huge jumps in pay. Having some technical skills really helped. I have been making six figures for the past 23 years, while my STEM major sibling from a public ivy hasn't even cracked six figures.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand business, but it sure helps to understand concepts when you first enter the workplace in business. I've worked everything from marketing to accounting to IS. IS paid the most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

Did you ever look at what bachelor’s degrees business professors have? True, some did something like psych or econ or engineering as undergrads, but most majored in business & kept going all the way through to a phd.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the definition of “dumb.” There are incredibly bright MIT math geniuses but some of them have very little common sense or social intelligence. I believe everyone is “smart” at something and “dumb” at something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it that the not very bright types end up majoring in business?

I think that's a dumb question to ask. Maybe it's what they are interested in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Dumb kids major in education and gender studies.

I bet you're an a-hole to your kid's teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the definition of “dumb.” There are incredibly bright MIT math geniuses but some of them have very little common sense or social intelligence. I believe everyone is “smart” at something and “dumb” at something.

+1

[Anonymous]

I don't think "dumb kids" go into a business major. I think for many it's a default if they don't know what they want to do.

The issue with business is that your grades/smarts is only part of the equation in business. You have to be motivated, have connections/work connections to be successful. For me, that's much harder than the grades.

Seeing a lot of bright kids coming out of college now with a business degree and being really bummed out they are doing the equivalent of collections and will prob be doing that for awhile until they can turn that into something else.

[Anonymous]

To be fair, STEM is difficult to study and Humanities are difficult to succeed in hence people with no personal interest in learning but hope for short cut to well paying jobs opt for business major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Dumb kids major in education and gender studies.

I bet you're an a-hole to your kid's teachers.

+1

OMG I can not believe half of these college posts. Adults and parents acting like total a-holes about students choices. My God.

Sounds like a you problem OP.