<p>None of the information in that link can be considered fact, no more than my assertion. I agree, I’d like to see some facts to. From my discussions with double majors, I believe I’m right here, but you’re correct, that does not make it fact and I digress. Until there is some factual data on this topic we’ll have to deal with conjecture and opinion based on experience and research. </p>
<p>It’s not at all clear that you understand the meaning of the word “fact”.</p>
<p>In any case, here’s another study that includes surveys of students with single and double majors:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/cms-wp/wp-content/uploads/Teagle_Report_Final_3-11-13.pdf”>http://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/cms-wp/wp-content/uploads/Teagle_Report_Final_3-11-13.pdf</a></p>
<p>A quote from the findings: “Double majors generally have higher GPA’s than single majors.”</p>
<p>Agreed, I mis-spoke, not a fact at all, just my informed opinion. My bad and hopefully the OP can forgive my mistake. With that said, after reading both links I still believe a single is the correct answer here, based on my own experience. Agreeing to disagree is completely ok here. :)</p>
<p>Edited: btw, still digging through the second link and can not find any evidence of single vs. double, in regards to gpa averages between the two. Can you point me to a page within that link? Thanks.</p>
<p>That argument is quite irrelevant, confusing necessary and sufficient conditions. A perfectly valid interpretation would be that students who chose to double major are an academically motivated/gifted minority, and that it this ambition/skill that leads to higher grades in general. It does not follow that simply picking two majors will boost grades.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen any assertion that “picking two majors will boost grades”. Can you explain where you have seen this assertion?</p>
<p>There is clearly a self-selection going on for double majors, but your conclusion that this invalidates comparisons of the two groups has not been supported. For example, you postulate that the double major group is more “gifted” than the single-major group, yet if you would bother to examine the evidence provided you will see that the SAT/GRE scores of the two groups are not significantly different.</p>
<p>The one thing that is so far completely unsupported in this discussion is the notion that a double major inherently reduces GPA.</p>
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<p>Indeed, but it also does not follow that picking a double will necessarily lower your GPA, as back2it asserted earlier (as fact).</p>
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<p>If you find someone saying that I will be sure to let them know. </p>
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<p>You do realize most people attend law school precisely due to the lack of career options after college, right? I know Harvard Law grads that wish they never bothered with law school. </p>
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<p>Not sure if serious. many people I knew from high school could not score above 1800 on SAT, despite their best intentions. LSAT is a harder test than SAT. </p>
<p>There are many people out there who struggle with 7th grade level algebra, at age 24. You’d be surprised.</p>
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<p>An MBA is virtually worthless outside of top 15 or so schools. And, to get into a top tier mba program, you need to have decent professional work experience out of college.</p>
<p>even if you get lucky and get into a top MBA program despite lackluster work experience, you will likely get slaughtered at MBA OCI, competing for those jobs against your classmates who all have much stronger work experience than you.</p>