lindyk8, thanks for making the effort to provide a link. I was hoping for something from the Stanford GSB (or any GSB) that said psychology was an advantageous or preferred degree, rather than something from Stanford’s Psychology Department in which they’re trying to sell their program to prospective students. While it claims that psychology is often recommended for an MBA, you’ll also find people who would recommend philosophy, history, or computer science for an MBA. There’s nothing unique about psychology when it comes to entering an MBA program. From what I can tell, business schools are open to any major except an undergraduate business major. Not that I’m expecting you to provide it, but I’d love to see an actual breakdown of majors that were accepted into MBA programs.
anhydrite, you’re doing what people so often do when they find themselves on the losing side of a discussion, which is to put words into the mouths of others, and change the focus of the discussion. My comments were always in the context of finding a job with a four-year degree. I even said, “four years” in the line you quoted. I never said anything about the value of humanities degrees to society. You’ve taken a few short sentences that I wrote, and blown those up into something they weren’t. I actually love classes in the humanities, but it’s just reality that in general, people have an easier time finding a job with STEM degrees than humanities or social science degrees. Do you disagree with that?
And yes, I still do believe the primary reason people go to college to prepare themselves for the job market. Not everyone, but most. Discovering themselves or expanding their horizons are secondary.
Just to help demonstrate that I don’t have a disdain for humanities, here’s a quick, little blurb I wrote a few months ago on a thread about whether Stanford’s humanities programs were deteriorating -
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18385313/#Comment_18385313