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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is top 1% of individual earners or all includes all adults in 1% households but it's interesting to see that engineering majors aren't more likely than English majors to be in it, while Finance majors aren't particularly well represented.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/what-the-top-1-of-earners-majored-in/

Also interesting is the variation within the social sciences - political science and history majors are more likely to be in it than psych or sociology majors for instance.[/quote]

They major in family money and connections. I'm serious. That's not a knock, necessarily.  But, if you're very poor and have no connections or are the first to go to college, it's very hard (not impossible) to make it to the 1%. I speak from experience (and as someone who has done very well, though I doubt woudl be considered a 1%). I am successful but it was very, very hard.  Grad school was full of people who had parent help and support, who had connections for jobs, etc. Everything came easy for them and they had family fall backs. I had nothing and you really need some grit to get past it.[/quote]

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