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% of law school applicants who are STEM down to 5.7%

http://abovethelaw.com/2017/07/stem-majors-who-excel-on-the-...
Aromatic partner garrison
  07/20/17
"criminal justice majors a particularly low average of ...
judgmental jew forum
  07/20/17
ljl at dogshit criminal justice programs with the lowest LSA...
Histrionic water buffalo piazza
  07/20/17
jesus christ, the fact that there are like 6,000 unnecessary...
outnumbered chapel
  07/20/17
Pretty shocked that computer science only has an average of ...
Zippy bat shit crazy cruise ship windowlicker
  07/20/17
Only the dregs and washouts of CS are applying.
Thriller Startling University
  07/20/17
Probably cr
Bipolar Quadroon
  07/20/17
That and the high percentage of FOBs and ESLs
Zippy bat shit crazy cruise ship windowlicker
  07/20/17
Good point.
Bipolar Quadroon
  07/20/17
Selection bias - the type of CS people that apply to law sch...
Hyperventilating spot
  07/21/17
they're not sending their best
Disgusting weed whacker organic girlfriend
  07/20/17
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Galvanic mildly autistic heaven turdskin
  07/20/17
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electric address
  07/21/17
Liberal "arts" is an incredible scam. I literally ...
turquoise supple national dysfunction
  07/20/17
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Apoplectic resort
  07/20/17
Yeah literally stocking your in home bar with champagne
Out-of-control Dashing Pit Faggotry
  07/21/17
Interesting to see the very top LSAT scoring majors, in orde...
Bipolar Quadroon
  07/20/17
not surprising.
puce gas station hunting ground
  07/20/17
I'm not surprised to see Math and Physics are the most elite...
Bipolar Quadroon
  07/20/17
Linguistics is probably the most underrated major relative t...
Multi-colored pink church building
  07/21/17
i'm surprised at 3 - would think philosophy > Classics
Yapping hyperactive scourge upon the earth karate
  07/20/17
are classics majors available at every TTT school? philosoph...
Histrionic water buffalo piazza
  07/20/17
That is a little unusual but maybe there are more grads from...
Bipolar Quadroon
  07/20/17
I would guess selection bias is at play here as well. Philos...
Hyperventilating spot
  07/21/17


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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:09 PM
Author: Aromatic partner garrison

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)



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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:11 PM
Author: judgmental jew forum

"criminal justice majors a particularly low average of 146"

holy shit lol how

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819417)



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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:13 PM
Author: Histrionic water buffalo piazza

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)



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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:22 PM
Author: outnumbered chapel

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: Zippy bat shit crazy cruise ship windowlicker

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: Thriller Startling University

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: Bipolar Quadroon

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: Zippy bat shit crazy cruise ship windowlicker

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: Bipolar Quadroon

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: Hyperventilating spot

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: Disgusting weed whacker organic girlfriend

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: Galvanic mildly autistic heaven turdskin



(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: electric address



(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: turquoise supple national dysfunction

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: Apoplectic resort



(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: Out-of-control Dashing Pit Faggotry

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: Bipolar Quadroon

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 20th, 2017 7:42 PM
Author: puce gas station hunting ground

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: Bipolar Quadroon

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".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819701)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:56 AM
Author: Multi-colored pink church building

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: Yapping hyperactive scourge upon the earth karate

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 water buffalo piazza

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: Bipolar Quadroon

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?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680489&forum_id=2#33819755)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:52 AM
Author: Hyperventilating spot

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)