1. Cowardice

2. Ineptitude

3. GPA preservation at all costs (including one's dignity)

4. Self-teaching Engineering, making college unnecessary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039062)

B.A., [MAJOR OMITTED], [University]

***...LET'S MOVE THINGS ALONG HERE, DOO DEE DOO DOO...***

J.D., Law School, [Optional: class rank]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039105)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039129)

https://www.businessinsider.com/ceos-majored-in-engineering-2011-3?op=1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039462)

also i doubt i would have been any good at engineering.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039161)

i think the ex-bankers in strategy might have cool jobs but you have to do banking

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039212)

i know some very smart engineers who would basically go retarded whenever they had to write even a 3 page paper in college. some of those people, i shit you not, actually discuss on their borts how law is SOOOOOOO CR b/c of $200,000+ all in comp starting out, but it's not like they could ever write a motion or a memo b/c their brains just do not function in that scholarly way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039254)

for me reading anything biological turns my mind off i can't even begin to care

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039300)

i like the rectitude and forthrightness connoted in saying "I am an engineer."

nobody makes "let's kill all the engineers" jokes, for good reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039296)

during 2L interviews, i got a biglaw job partially bc i interviewed with the IP group (even tho i had no intention of doing IP work)

this led to seven years of on-and-off poasting while i toiled under the hum of fluorescent lights

i staved off several rounds of layoffs by scripting basic stuff/running stat analysis at the law firm and (luckily) getting good results for the client, despite being a 120 lawyer

i thought i was done with the law after seven years but then i moved inhouse to a quant/BD firm, partly bc the GC believed that i was also a quant due to my engineering background

so here i am, continuing to poast as a lolyer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039387)

i've made a habit of being the dumbest person in the room and there ain't any shame in that when i know that just hanging with those guys is an honor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37041781)

*cue laugh track*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37039298)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37041794)

Connections are all but required too, especially if phenotype is lacking.

Tellingly, one needs to be Elite AF i.e. HYP *and* MBB to trump his liberal arts background. Liberal arts basically puts you on even footing with a high school graduate otherwise.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37044965)

Also lol at an engineer from like Cal State doing well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37044995)

when the burnouts run to the startup game they're seemingly always doing some college admissions / junior Wall Street recruiting advice site like that's all they were ever good at (it is)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37045121)

Matthew Shepard — Liberal Arts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108482&forum_id=2#37111567)