Is a business major for dumb kids?

[Anonymous]

For certain groups, a worthy life for one’s children involves an academic and career path in medicine, engineering, or CS only.

For the Bengal Tiger moms of these unfortunate automatons, anything else is to be viewed with contempt.

That’s the vibe from this OP.

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It's the total opposite.
Business program is in high demad and hader to get in, thus students are smarter on the average.

Keep telling yourself that.

Are you really dumb or what??
This is not even a funny trolling.

Undergraduate business degrees are academically like receiving a certificate of completion from preschool. You are house trained but probably cannot do any real math or writing. It isn’t completely your fault either.

You must be like 90 years old.
Business program is in high demad and hader to get in, thus students are smarter on the average.

Harvard and Princeton do not even offer undergraduate business degrees. Why do you think that is?

The world #1 school MIT has it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For certain groups, a worthy life for one’s children involves an academic and career path in medicine, engineering, or CS only.

For the Bengal Tiger moms of these unfortunate automatons, anything else is to be viewed with contempt.

That’s the vibe from this OP.

No, I think OPs kid is a humanities kid, something like communications, english, histoty, etc., and got mad that business majors get better jobs and make more money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that's a myth. I've found that business majors can be very smart, but not necessarily intellectual. It takes a different way of thinking to be a business major and I don't thinks it's accurate to say that they're not bright.

This is my experience. Really smart but not as interested in finding a career that fuels their passion. More practical and frankly, interested in making money. Which is fine. Supporting your family is nothing to be ashamed of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For certain groups, a worthy life for one’s children involves an academic and career path in medicine, engineering, or CS only.

For the Bengal Tiger moms of these unfortunate automatons, anything else is to be viewed with contempt.

That’s the vibe from this OP.

No, I think OPs kid is a humanities kid, something like communications, english, histoty, etc., and got mad that business majors get better jobs and make more money.

+ 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that's a myth. I've found that business majors can be very smart, but not necessarily intellectual. It takes a different way of thinking to be a business major and I don't thinks it's accurate to say that they're not bright.

Yeah, this. At least at the selective schools, they're sharp kids who want to make good money and don't have any burning academic interests. Exceptions abound, of course.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think that's a myth. I've found that business majors can be very smart, but not necessarily intellectual. It takes a different way of thinking to be a business major and I don't thinks it's accurate to say that they're not bright.

Yeah, this. At least at the selective schools, they're sharp kids who want to make good money and don't have any burning academic interests. Exceptions abound, of course.

It's the total opposite.
At the selective schools such as UPenn, UCBerkeley, Cornell, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Emory etc. as well as state flagships like UVA, UMD, UNC, UMich, ec., business program is harder admit. Many of them even require additional application in 1st or 2nd year within the universities.
The industry recruit them and pay more as they know applicants in the program tend to be smarter.
At selective schools, rich kids who got in backdoor tend to major in easy stuff, but business program is very competitive to get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow OP. This is a new low.

Some of the business majors I know are the exact opposite of bottom of the barrel. Oh, and stay in your lane. You sound like an awful excuse for a human.

If nothing else, business school develops rigorous critical thinking skills.

Try taking a statistics/banking/investment/accounting class and come back and tell us how it went, OP.

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It's the total opposite.
Business program is in high demad and hader to get in, thus students are smarter on the average.

Keep telling yourself that.

Are you really dumb or what??
This is not even a funny trolling.

Undergraduate business degrees are academically like receiving a certificate of completion from preschool. You are house trained but probably cannot do any real math or writing. It isn’t completely your fault either.

You must be like 90 years old.
Business program is in high demad and hader to get in, thus students are smarter on the average.

Harvard and Princeton do not even offer undergraduate business degrees. Why do you think that is?

The world #1 school MIT has it.

Nobody actually believes that it is #1.

[Anonymous]

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

Me either. But somewhere in business school they learn the FACT that on average PhDs make less than MBAs.

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Anonymous wrote:
It's the total opposite.
Business program is in high demad and hader to get in, thus students are smarter on the average.

Keep telling yourself that.

Are you really dumb or what??
This is not even a funny trolling.

Undergraduate business degrees are academically like receiving a certificate of completion from preschool. You are house trained but probably cannot do any real math or writing. It isn’t completely your fault either.

You must be like 90 years old.
Business program is in high demad and hader to get in, thus students are smarter on the average.

Harvard and Princeton do not even offer undergraduate business degrees. Why do you think that is?

Harvard English = $49,675
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-University&fos_code=2301&fos_credential=3

UPenn Finance = $206,646
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?215062-University-of-Pennsylvania&fos_code=5208&fos_credential=3

Night and day difference, or rather heaven and hell difference
Why do you think this is?

The industry definitely thinks business majors are smarter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my business major kid can probably outscore your stem kids in math

A friend is a nyu stern mba. Got in with an undergrad math, and ms in stat—first in his class for ms. Perfect math score on gmat. Current hedge fund quant manager.


Maybe you guys don’t know what top 10 business school admissions look like

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think that's a myth. I've found that business majors can be very smart, but not necessarily intellectual. It takes a different way of thinking to be a business major and I don't thinks it's accurate to say that they're not bright.

This is my experience. Really smart but not as interested in finding a career that fuels their passion. More practical and frankly, interested in making money. Which is fine. Supporting your family is nothing to be ashamed of.

+1. Agree. My son and nephew are business majors. Both smart, top of their HS classes, athletically active, involved in community , well rounded. My son follows all professional sports, politics, economic trends, current events, loves history. He can talk about all of these topics with his friends, family and other adults. Throughout HS he learned all of this on his own. With the ease of internet, we can learn history and many subjects on our own. My son is doing his own humanities research. He’s interested in business, is in his college’s business program and is deciding between accounting or finance. He likes it. Is it a passion? No. But he wants to be marketable, get a career started and be able to have a decent income. We are middle class and he sees how we really need to watch our money and be careful. He wants a little more. Not a bad idea. I went to college to “save the world “ and ended up having to go back and get another degree to survive economically.

[Anonymous]

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

What would be the point?

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

What would be the point?

+100. Seriously.