% of law school applicants who are STEM down to 5.7%
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:09 PM Author: dead dog poop home
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.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819408) |
Date: July 20th, 2017 7:13 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Nursing Home
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
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819428) |
Date: July 20th, 2017 7:41 PM Author: Khaki Vivacious Azn
Interesting to see the very top LSAT scoring majors, in order:
1. Mathematics
2. Physics
3. Classics and Bio/Biomedical engineering
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819679)
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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:52 AM Author: slate school deer antler
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.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33822173) |
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