How accurate is this

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<p>My friend sent me this and I thought it was 10/10
Top Tier
Student Athletes who don't suck - This major is OP
MRS Degree - Only works for cute girls</p>

<p>Upper Tier
Engineer (Petroleum, Mechanical, Electrical, etc) - Engineering is OP.
Business - Top tier earning potential, but inconsistent
Economics - See ^^^^</p>

<p>High Tier
Pre-Health (Pre-Med/Pre-Dent/Pre-Opt) - Has high earning potential, but not high tier because it sucks if you don't get into a professional school.
Pre-Pharm - More consistent but lower potential version of Pre-Health
Pre-Law - Way more explosive than Pre-Health, but super not consistent
Math - Solid choice with many options of work.</p>

<p>Mid Tier
Physical Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, etc) - Pretty good I guess.
Life Sciences (Birds, Reptiles, Evolutionary, etc) - Not good, not bad. It's really fun, but hard to make a super decent living with
Accounting - Boring major but meh
Pre-Vet - As difficult as Pre-Health but makes 1/2 as much.</p>

<p>Low Tier
Psychology - Pretty much for people who suck at Pre-Med.
Graphic Design - It's aight
History - I guess if you think it's interesting
English - Any major that involves poetry....
Hospitality (Hotel Management, etc) - I still can't believe this is an actual major</p>

<p>Bottom Tier
Political Science - It's not a real science
Communications - Lol
Social Work - For people who care about others and like not making money.
Philosophy - To make money, or to not make money. That is the question...
Religion - As bad as philosophy, but lower because some people believe this doesn't even exist.</p>

<p>Negligible Tier
Education - The one saving grace is that it lets you meet girls....which would still be easier with a better job.
Women's/African American/Any social group or ethnicity Studies - LOL
Dropping Out - Bad major IMO
Art/Music/Theatre -lol</p>

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<p>Not very accurate – a lot of majors on the lower tiers (Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Ethnicity/Demographic studies) are often tracks people use to go to law school, since they require a particular level of higher order, critical thinking that lends itself to high LSAT scores. </p>

<p>Plus it doesn’t really make sense to make broad, sweeping statements about the worth of college degrees - people go to college for different reasons - they have different backgrounds that shape different motivations for going to college.</p>

<p>Also - “Pre-Law” is not a major. Every major is potentially Pre-Law, so it doesn’t make sense to say “Pre-Law is unreliable but super explosive in earning potential. But x, y, z majors suck.” lol. </p>

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<p>@preamble1776
I think he was saying people who get those degrees w/o a planning to go into law.</p>

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<p>@SwaggyC - You could ask 100 Philosophy and Political Science majors, and 90+ of them would say that they’re planning on law school. </p>

<p>Also, a lot of the ranking doesn’t make sense or isn’t consistent. Pre-Law and Pre-Med are both volatile, especially law - so it doesn’t make sense for it to be an upper tier when you see the amount of law school grads who are underemployed or unemployed - or the amount of doctors that are in debt up to their eyeballs. </p>

<p>And - there’s a serious shortage of teachers in this country (high enrollment, regulations on smaller class sizes, earlier retirement) - so we need English majors and education majors in general.</p>

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<p>@preamble1776

  1. Those numbers aren’t correct
  2. You also acknowledged there are still people who still don’t go into law
  3. This also takes into fact potential…law has a lot teaching has almost none.</p>
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<li>I’ve seen this post on College Confidential 4+ times. </li>
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<p>Law doesn’t have a lot of potential. Are there lawyers in Manhattan who make 800,000+ dollars a year? Yes. But the vast majority of lawyers can’t aspire to such - my mother’s job is to review law school grads for positions at the IRS/Treasury - most of them are YLS and HLS grads aiming for positions that make ~50k a year. There are far more plumbers that make more money than lawyers. </p>

<p>Using the argument that law has high potential is either incredibly antiquated (50 years ago when anyone could break into BIGLAW) or is paralleled to suggesting that baseball has a lot of potential because the New York Yankees are bankrolling. </p>

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<p>(Inquires as to whether or not something OP’s “friend” sent them is accurate)
(Vehemently opposes statements that suggest that it isn’t.) </p>

<p>Okay. LOL. </p>

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<p>Probably my old account before getting perm banned </p>

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<p>LOL.</p>

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Why? It seems like the chances of becoming a successful non-lawyer philosophy major are way higher than the chances of becoming a gazillionaire professional athlete (but presumably both of them would have backup plans).</p>

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What does she do when he leaves her because she’s not cute anymore?</p>

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<p>she takes half his stuff </p>

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<p>It’s accurate in a stereotypical way, but I don’t agree with some of them.</p>

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<p>@halcyonheather - Forgot who said this but, a career is never going to wake up and tell you that they don’t love you anymore.</p>

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<p>@SwaggyC - Prenuptial agreement. </p>

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<p>@preamble1776
If youre a decent MRS major you would avoid this </p>

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<p>If you were fiscally responsible, you’d avoid gold diggers. </p>

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<p>@preamble1776
Obviously those aren’t the targets</p>

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<p>Ah yes, the obvious nuances of professional gold digging. How could I’ve been so ignorant? </p>

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<p>What the OP said about Religion LOL. It’s kinda true though. </p>

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<p>I don’t get why engineers and business are ranked higher than pre-med though.
A lot people who go into business either fail at starting up their own mega-dollar business or end up being a stable accountant, or end up being something in between, none of which have high earning potential at all.</p>

<p>And engineers would only make more than a doctor if said doctor were a primary care physician or had a LOT of debt. And engineers are easily laid off.</p>