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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not a major for academically smart kids.[/quote]

True, outside of the top undergrad business programs (Wharton, Mit, Cornell, and about 5 others) it is not where smart kids land. Look at the smartest kids from the top private high schools and top publics: Engineering, other stem, Liberal Arts (typically prelaw or prePhD goals, for the smartest).[/quote]

Again not true at all.
If a university has a business program, it's usually higher demand and more competitive to get in. 
Students are smarter on the average.[/quote]

A student at IU Kelley may be smarter than the average IU student, but those students in IU Kelley are NOT on average the same level of smarts as students from the top rigor/most academic group of top private and top public high schools. Those kids do Stem, Engineering, Liberal Arts at top schools, and if they want business they go to the big names, Wharton et al. 
OP asked why DCum looks down on it—that is why. And it is consistent with what the PP teacher said regarding their high school, and what the vast majority of UMC parents see in their circles. [/quote]

I don't think you know what you are talking about.
It's especially competitive to get into the business programs at top schools if they have business programs.
UPenn, Cornell, Georgetown, Emory, Michigan, Notre Dame, Berkeley, NYU, USC, UVA, UNC, etc.

At many of these schools, you have to competitively apply to the program after you get accepted to the university.
Thus, if they are in a business school, they are smarter on the average.

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I don't see your logic. Because you have to apply separately, the kids are smarter. I'd venture to guess the average Physics student is smarter than an honors english student, but the english student will have to apply separately to get into his/her honors program.[/quote]

Don't you understand 'on the average'??
On the average, students at MIT are smarter than students at UAlabama. 
O the average, students in business programs are smarter than English major students.

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Yes, I'm saying just slapping that to anything can be false.
On the average anthropology majors are smarter than sociology majors. Proof? none, but the anthropology major at X and Y school has to be applied to.
On the average, you have massively idiotic takes-just, on the average though.[/quote]

Are you pretending to be dumb?
It's a common sense and simple logic.
It's competitive admission.  
Smarter students get in and less smart ones get rejected. [/quote]

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