Hi everyone,
I’m really into MBTI and thought it would be interesting to see whether similar Myers Briggs personality types gravitate towards similar colleges. So if you could share your Myers Briggs type, the college you attended or are going to attend, and your major or intended major, that would be great. Looking forward to seeing the results!
If you haven’t taken the Myers Briggs test, here’s a pretty good one that’s free:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
You might use search feature - every once in awhile someone posts similar thread.
I would not recommend that method, but iirc my dd was/is ENTP and also though MB was fun when they did it in HS.
College -Brown U (runner up Chicago)
INTENDED MAJOR -physics, actual major math-CS
Doesn’t the Myers-Briggs test lack both accuracy and precision?
I go between ESTJ and ISTJ.
Big school, plan to major in business.
@whenhen according to who? I heard it is very good at determining job specialties, which relates to majors.
I doubt there will be a correlation between school size and MBTI type though.
iNFj, Boston University, journalism
The [url=<a href=“http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-myers-briggs-personality-test-is-pretty-much-meaningless-9359770/?no-ist%5DSmithsonian%5B/url”>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-myers-briggs-personality-test-is-pretty-much-meaningless-9359770/?no-ist]Smithsonian[/url] for one. There are a number of other papers that I could link to which question Myers-Briggs validity, but I’m not on campus right now.
Yes. It’s a fun pastime I suppose, but it’s [of no real value](13 Reasons Why The Myers-Briggs Test Is Absolute Nonsense | Thought Catalog) or [url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die]meaning[/url] beyond that.
@ErenYeager - according to virtually the all psychology experts.
Oh, and [it’s been discussed here before](Myers Briggs Type Comparative College Study - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums).
INFP, philosophy w/ physics or poli sci minor. Maybe dual major in english and phil. not exactly sure yet.
I actually find MB very insightful for helping understand myself and others. And I’m a very classic INTJ - repeatedly tested over 30 years. Nonetheless-
Me - INTJ - Northwestern - econ and math
Husband - ESTJ - Northwestern - biology
Son - ISTJ/ISFJ - Northwestern - history / polit sci
So there you have it 
I think part of it is whether you want a college that reinforces your own “type” or helps you expand and broaden yourself. For example, I think my innate INTJness could have been enhanced if I’d gone to, say U of Chicago, but that might not have been a good thing.
@Pizzagirl That’s an interesting point… it does makes sense that your type would be “reinforced” at some colleges more than others.
More answers would be appreciated, if anyone else wants to share
ENTJ. I was a fish in water studying psychology at Harvard. I felt like everyone “got” me.
I want to see the same thread, but using astrological sign rather than M-B.
ENFJ . . . though I actually think I’m more introverted than when I took MB years ago.
Somehow wound up at a STEM oriented school, as a liberal arts major. Go figure. Luckily I enjoyed college, but looking back I realize that I should have gone to a more liberal arts driven school.
Law school didn’t completely fit either, though I was a bit more in my element.
INTJ: Case Western Reserve University, Electrical Engineering
Pisces
“I want to see the same thread, but using astrological sign rather than M-B.”
Cool! We have:
Capricorn - Northwestern
Sagittarius / Capricorn cusp - Northwestern
Leo- Northwestern
Leo - Wellesley
I think that proves … exactly nothing, LOL.
Pssh. Your ratiocentric concept of “proof” is of no significance TO THE STARS.
@marvin100 great articles you cited, especially the 2 nd one.
As a standard psychological instrument, the MBTI is of little use - it’s on average not reliable. [iMost* people who retake the test often get different results, often within as little as a few weeks; I’ve taken the actual real one three times (several years apart) and have gotten different results each time. It has also low validity - there’s no way to confirm the concept of the constructs measured. Myers and Briggs didn’t exactly adhere to modern research standards when setting up their personality types; they based them on Carl Jung’s archetypes, which aren’t really based on empirical research, either. Research shows that people aren’t really hard categorized into introversion vs. extraversion, for example - like most other things in life, people are normally distributed across the spectrum. (This is my MBTI problem; I always score square on the line between I and E.) As that Psychology Today article mentions, there’s no evidence that the poles for some of the categories are actually opposing - thinking and feeling aren’t opposite ends of a spectrum.
Also, I’m a psychologist by training, so it’s pretty easy to game the test into giving me the result I want if I try.
It’s super fun, though! I love personality tests.
I’m an ESTJ. I went to Spelman College (a small, historically black college for women) and I majored in psychology.
FWIW, the first time I took the (actual, legit) MBTI I was 19, and I got ENFP. The second time I took it, I was in my mid-20s and I got ENTJ. The third time, I was in my late 20s, and I got ESTJ. When I used to take the online free versions of these I used to score all over the map, but I pretty consistently score as an ESTJ now (although occasionally I get ISTJ depending on the kinds of introvert/extravert questions they ask. The ESTJ description fits me better, but the ISTJ is pretty darn close.)