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% of law school applicants who are STEM down to 5.7%
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:09 PM Author: Rose police squad lodge http://abovethelaw.com/2017/07/stem-majors-who-excel-on-the-lsat-have-no-interest-in-law-school/
Aspiring lawyers with degrees in the social sciences and helping professions, which includes social work and psychology, made up nearly 48 percent of 2014 applicants, AccessLex found. The arts and humanities majors had nearly 24 percent of all law school applicants, and business and management majors accounted for almost 16 percent. Political science majors alone made up almost 19 percent of applicant pool. Business, criminal justice, psychology and English rounded out the top five.
Compared to the 160 average score of STEM majors on the LSAT, the average score among the 12,693 political science majors who applied in 2015 was 153. Business majors scored an average 149, while criminal justice majors a particularly low average of 146, according to the Law School Admission Council, which administers the LSAT. |
Date: July 20th, 2017 7:11 PM Author: Exciting tattoo becky "criminal justice majors a particularly low average of 146" holy shit lol how |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:13 PM Author: histrionic theater stage ljl at dogshit criminal justice programs with the lowest LSATs and somehow the lowest GPAs to go along with them
presumably these are the smarter of the criminal justice majors too, lol |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:22 PM Author: insane ceo jesus christ, the fact that there are like 6,000 unnecessary colleges might have something to do with it. "Liberal arts colleges" that you've never heard of are a scourge on this land. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819476) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:32 PM Author: cocky sable circlehead Pretty shocked that computer science only has an average of 156 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819578) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:34 PM Author: deranged water buffalo nursing home Only the dregs and washouts of CS are applying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819591) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:42 PM Author: Heady Free-loading Sanctuary Probably cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819682) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:44 PM Author: cocky sable circlehead That and the high percentage of FOBs and ESLs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819700) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:45 PM Author: Heady Free-loading Sanctuary Good point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819702) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:38 AM Author: Chartreuse Corner Athletic Conference Selection bias - the type of CS people that apply to law school are a different type than the CS people who go into engineering / tech / data science / quant jobs / finance etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33822150) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:33 PM Author: Filthy crotch they're not sending their best (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819586) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:34 PM Author: Supple primrose senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819593) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 6:03 AM Author: Bright Abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33822294) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:35 PM Author: Razzmatazz flushed hospital mood Liberal "arts" is an incredible scam. I literally stock shelves with one of these so-called degrees. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819603) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:37 PM Author: Mewling Partner Filthpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819635) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 5:09 AM Author: mustard drunken masturbator Yeah literally stocking your in home bar with champagne (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33822264) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:41 PM Author: Heady Free-loading Sanctuary Interesting to see the very top LSAT scoring majors, in order:
1. Mathematics 2. Physics 3. Classics and Bio/Biomedical engineering
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:42 PM Author: Harsh Greedy Dilemma Useless Brakes not surprising. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819686) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:44 PM Author: Heady Free-loading Sanctuary I'm not surprised to see Math and Physics are the most elite STEMs and that Classics and Linguistics are the most elite humanities. That's exactly what I would have guessed.
A little surprised to see how low polisci sh*theads scored though. Lol at their "science". |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:56 AM Author: curious frum hall Linguistics is probably the most underrated major relative to its actual rigor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33822178) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:50 PM Author: wonderful pink mental disorder office i'm surprised at 3 - would think philosophy > Classics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819732) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:52 PM Author: histrionic theater stage are classics majors available at every TTT school? philosophy definitely is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819746) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:53 PM Author: Heady Free-loading Sanctuary That is a little unusual but maybe there are more grads from mediocre philosophy departments?
Proper Classics requires you to learn either Ancient Greek or Latin and so that would weed out a lot of dumbs and does every school have such a program? |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:52 AM Author: Chartreuse Corner Athletic Conference I would guess selection bias is at play here as well. Philosophy degrees are offered all over at tons of crappy/mediocre colleges while mostly only decent to great schools offer classics degree.
Just as big of reason though is that having to learn another language to obtain a classics degree is going to seriously weed out lower iq students from considering this option. While philosophy degrees at lots of reasonably good schools will be a mixed bag of smart students genuinely interested in philosophy and people taking it as a fluff major.
Along the same lines is that learning another language possibly requires a more disciplined / more structured learning environment whereas you can still read and learn a lot of philosophy on your own, audit courses etc. - so students genuinely interested in both classics and philosophy (a higher IQ subset of both of these populations) might opt for a formal degree in the Classics while studying philosophy on their own.
If we controlled for all this though - e.g. compared philosophy at a few top schools to classics at those same top schools - my bet would be on philosophy coming out on top. |