<p>I found this interesting:
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Philosophy majors earn more 10 years after college than business administration and nursing majors.
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College</a> Grads: Which Ones Earn the Most?- Yahoo! HotJobs</p>
<p>Yea that’s b/c most philosophy majors go to law school or get a master’s in something else after they realize that they’re BA is worthless.</p>
<p>its not worthless, it helps you into law school.</p>
<p>HAH^ good one corinnejay hahaha</p>
<p>though I’m inclined to say a BA in any sort of humanities is kind of eh, you need to go further than a BA.</p>
<p>^ depends on what you want to do but yeah, for the most part. I don’t get why some people can’t get over that fact. “You need to go further than a BA”…orly? thanks captain obvious. I can’t speak for all humanities majors but I knew I was pre-law when I chose my major, that’s why I said “I’ll just pick something I love.” I swear I’ve run into some science/business/engineers etc. that just despise you for this. and I know the vast majority of people in those majors could care less what I spend my money on but it just cracks me up when you run into those kids that just seem to hate you for it lol.</p>
<p>if you want to get into Law school a math degree is the way to go.</p>
<p>wrong .</p>
<p>@ Art is Melodic Orly? funny, out of the countless Law school seminars and conventions I’ve been to nothing backs up that statement. (if you were being sarcarstic please excuse my post)</p>
<p>@ CBBolts: Thank you for finally finding an article that justifies a degree in the Humanities. God knows how many times I’ve defended it here. I agree, most go on to some form of post-baccalaureate education. Many people obviously neglect to see or believe that.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure payscale only uses data from people with that only have bachelor degrees. That’s what it says on methodology tab.</p>
<p>Statistically speaking, math majors are more likely to be accepted into law school than any other major. There have been multiple threads about this.</p>
<p>Edit: Pardon, math majors score higher on the LSATS than any other major – whether they are actually more likely to be accepted though, I’m not sure (although I’m inclined to think so since there is a direct correlation between LSAT scores and acceptance rates).</p>
<p>X and Y are 2 majors with out significant contributions to the legal field:</p>
<p>Lets say that most lawyers have a degree in X, and most people with degrees in X apply to law school. It does not hold true that degree X is better than degree Y to get into law school unless you superpose a bias onto the admissions committees for X.</p>
<p>Now if there where a considerable difference in difficulty between obtaining a degree in X vs a degree in Y, would not the candidate with the more difficult major have an advantage over the person who chose the easier path?</p>
<p>I like what liberationn15 is saying. The way I see it, the major that will prep you best for the LSTAT is probably the major to go with.</p>
<p>I am down with what liberationn15 is saying as well. On the other hand, I don’t believe that if you want to go to law school, you should immediately consider math and philosophy as a major. It’s not the actual math or philosophy degree that helps (at least I don’t think so), but the abilities of the people skilled in those fields that help them achieve a high score on the LSAT. I think math and philosophy majors generally score well because their understanding of logic.</p>
<p>^ Exactly. While the relationship is certianly correlative, there isn’t any evidence that it is causal.</p>
<p>@ Koreo yeah I can buy that. Anyone that knows the LSAT would know that it’s pretty much an IQ test with a little pizzazz.</p>
<p>What do lawyers do? </p>
<p>Do not not spend their time justifying things? proving things? based on definition and past results … sounds like upper division math… </p>
<p>I’m not one to say that a math degree will result in getting into law school. I am just saying there are similarities in what lawyers and mathematicians do…</p>
<p>Lol, an art person having decent insight into math. Don’t see that everyday. ;)</p>
<p>@ Art is Melodic you just vaguely described 90% of all majors.</p>
<p>so it sounds like all majors prepare for law school, thats neat. </p>
<p>Math is an Art wouldn’t you agree cooldude6?</p>