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Noadrusso wrote:I was just wondering if admissions committees consider economics to be a difficult major and potentially give a slight bump to it.
Even if they see the stats, they probably won't care.adrusso wrote:I attend the University of Alabama and in one of my statistics classes the teacher mentioned that the business school and engineering schools give out the least As on campus compared to arts and sciences, communications, nursing or what have you. I guess i'll rephrase and ask if admissions will look at statistics like that or not.
Blasphemy! You shut your filthy mouth.drmguy wrote:Economics is a joke major.
This.drmguy wrote:If your degree says "school of social science," then you have a degree in a joke major.
As an econ major, I have the authority to make the claim.facile princeps wrote:Blasphemy! You shut your filthy mouth.drmguy wrote:Economics is a joke major.
OP, i've heard invariably that admissions don't care.
Also this.IAFG wrote:The only thing that matters is what they have to report for their medians. If you had majored in the hardest major in the world, it wouldn't raise your GPA for their reporting purposes and therefore it won't change how they evaluate you.
As someone who has dabbled in a few econ courses in UG, ceteris paribus, i "assumed" you'd know i was jokingdrmguy wrote:As an econ major, I have the authority to make the claim.facile princeps wrote:Blasphemy! You shut your filthy mouth.drmguy wrote:Economics is a joke major.
OP, i've heard invariably that admissions don't care.
.Please don't tell me that you made a connection between a correlation with LSAT scores and preference of that major in law school admissions. That just plain doesn't make sense.adrusso wrote:I didn't really think about it all. I think I looked up the majors that correspond to high lsat scores and I think economics was up there so I chose that.
drmguy wrote:Please don't tell me that you made a connection between a correlation with LSAT scores and preference of that major in law school admissions. Thatadrusso wrote:I didn't really think about it all. I think I looked up the majors that correspond to high lsat scores and I think economics was up there so I chose that.just plain doesn't make sense.doesn't bode well for the LSAT.
Actually, i doubt it's a case where they prepare you for the LSAT; i think it's more of a case where if you can easily excel at these, it may indicate that you have the capacity to do well on the LSAT.adrusso wrote:No I looked up which majors best prepare one to take the LSAT or have students who score the highest. I think mathematics, economics, and philosophy were the top 3 if I remember correctly. I figured with all the variables of a college gpa, teachers, difficulty of major and institution, it would be best to try and prepare myself for the lsat which I thought law schools cared about the most.
Unfortunately, despite the rigor of the Economics major, it would not make sense to give it a bump, because a ton of incoming law students majored in Economics. They have enough Economics people in law school already.adrusso wrote:I was just wondering if admissions committees consider economics to be a difficult major and potentially give a slight bump to it. I just finished my junior year with a 3.45 gpa and 164 lsat. I feel stupid now thinking I could have chosen a joke major just to have a high gpa and it would have paid off more. Thanks in advance.
LOL no. Nuclear physics is a difficult major. Economics is for liberal arts majors who want to seem math-y.adrusso wrote:I was just wondering if admissions committees consider economics to be a difficult major and potentially give a slight bump to it. I just finished my junior year with a 3.45 gpa and 164 lsat. I feel stupid now thinking I could have chosen a joke major just to have a high gpa and it would have paid off more. Thanks in advance.
And yet a nuclear physics major isn't getting into HYS with a 3.45 so what does it matter?rayiner wrote:LOL no. Nuclear physics is a difficult major. Economics is for liberal arts majors who want to seem math-y.adrusso wrote:I was just wondering if admissions committees consider economics to be a difficult major and potentially give a slight bump to it. I just finished my junior year with a 3.45 gpa and 164 lsat. I feel stupid now thinking I could have chosen a joke major just to have a high gpa and it would have paid off more. Thanks in advance.
I mean the real issue here is OP's 164.IAFG wrote:And yet a nuclear physics major isn't getting into HYS with a 3.45 so what does it matter?rayiner wrote:LOL no. Nuclear physics is a difficult major. Economics is for liberal arts majors who want to seem math-y.adrusso wrote:I was just wondering if admissions committees consider economics to be a difficult major and potentially give a slight bump to it. I just finished my junior year with a 3.45 gpa and 164 lsat. I feel stupid now thinking I could have chosen a joke major just to have a high gpa and it would have paid off more. Thanks in advance.