<p>And you didn’t answer my question. That’s the internet for you.</p>
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<p>Inmotion is ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Haha. So your credentials do not equal your inflated ego. Because if they did, you would gladly state them.</p>
<p>I do not need to state mine because they are irrelevant. I’m much older than you.</p>
<p>I’d like to stay rather anonymous. Morris I just disclosed most of my credentials. Why does it matter if you are much older than me? Does that automatically make you more impressive? Another mediocre person leading a mediocre stale career.</p>
<p>Today must be a bad reading comprehension day. No ego today, morrismm, just dropping some truth on a hater. Maybe if I were actually being belligerent in this thread your words might carry a semblance of weight to them. But right now it just looks like you’re bitter because I’ve called you out in the past on posting that blatantly made-up conversation between your daughters. It’s okay to be a zero; I for example only make $15 an hour after taxes.</p>
<p>Honestly though no one is going to oblige you and your questions when you’re being so clearly belligerent, not to mention cowardly for not answering them yourself. “Irrelevant”? ok</p>
<p>My god guys, why is there so much arguing about which major is better than which? I fail to understand how someone who wants to learn about East Asia Literature would benefit from an accounting major just because accounting has a higher salary/is seen as more difficult. Bottomline is that the individual, not the major and I’d argue to some extent school, are what gets the job. </p>
<p>Also lol at the idiot who says that “the Joseph Wharton school of business” isn’t a business school.</p>
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<p>Are you kidding me?? It does not make me more impressive, just older.</p>
<p>Stop cherry-picking what you respond to morrismm. This isn’t the parents’ forum.</p>
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<p>Morris, your response makes no sense at all and it just supports on my inquiry (Why does it matter if you are much older than me?). I reason why I asked is because it was totally irrelevant. So let me ask you, what was the point of bringing it up?</p>
<p>cream, sorry buddy, but major really does count for something.</p>
<p>Dawgie and WBlower, if you could start college over again and select a major which would it be? From your previous posts my guess would be engineering.</p>
<p>It’s tough to say. I’m not smart enough to actually be intellectually stimulated by something like computer programming, so to me it’d just be a torrential and relentless bore-fest to do something like EE. “Bore-fest” sounds too benign though, as boredom can quickly add up to tons of stress. Plan A would be pre-med. If I got a B on my transcript, I’d enlist and go to Afghanistan/Iraq to do some killing.</p>
<p>Also, I used to share your attitude towards accounting until I actually majored in it, and I suffered the consequence. My GPA has fallen under 3.5, and thus, in taxguy’s eyes I am a failure. If your school actually requires you to take math with econ, then you probably go to one of the better schools. The rest of the world takes econ-lite basically, and little math is taught. Accounting has the same sort of dichotomy. At a decent school, the class is full of nerds who all think they are going to be CFOs, read the textbook over the summer, and have higher SAT scores than you, and even then it’s around 20-30ish% of the class who fail or change majors in junior year. At a mediocre school, your class is full of girls whose sole ambition in life is to be clerks and have work-life balance.</p>
<p>I would pick engineering (not civil) or math. I would definitely double major that with philosophy. Whistler, do I use caps on these majors? I think no, but I need your assistance here.</p>
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<p>Girls do not say “female” under any circumstances. I guarantee that this conversation never happened and I doubt you have children.</p>
<p>Also, it’s not “D’s”, it’s “Ds”. What did you say your GPA was again?</p>
<p>Amazing post…:)</p>
<p>thanks for making this decision easier. I’m going to take Econ next year (senior year) I just hope it’s interesting 
(is it interesting? lol).</p>
<p>I just graduated with a B.S. in Economics my plan was to get my undergrad in Economics and pursue a Ph.D. or find a job in consulting or trading. My Economics professors told me Senior year of college that if I was truly serious about acquiring a Ph.D in Economics I would switch to a Math major. The Math major will help significantly with the math in graduate school.</p>
<p>All in all I love all the economic classes I took as a Econ major. Classes like Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, Business and Economic forecasting, Sport Economics, and several economic history classes( European, Asian, Islamic, etc.). </p>
<p>Economics is a great major and it is even better when you can back it up with minors or majors in programming, IT, finance, or management.</p>
<p>By Dawgie, “I would pick engineering (not civil) or math. I would definitely double major that with philosophy.”</p>
<p>Dawgie, you think that you made a mistake by pursuing the accounting major? I do not think that a double major in engineering and philosophy would give you more opportunities than those credentials that you have right now. And your salary would, most likely, never exceed the 100k mark, or would take you 10 or more years to get there. However, by being a CPA and CFA, you have no limits at all.</p>
<p>The good thing about accounting is that you do not need to get PhD, or any advanced degree, to be successful, unlike in economics or psychology–you just need to get you license. When I was a freshman, I could not decide between accounting and finance majors, but what pushed me more towards accounting is that I know what I am going to do after I will graduate from college–get my CPA. With finance, I do not know what to do next: I know that I would get a job at some kind of bank or insurance company, but the salary I had would be 50-60000$, and in New York–it is nothing. The CFA/CFP is an option, but it does not really give you the same weight as the CPA license gives you in accounting. But in order to satisfy the CPA requirement, I might just double major in finance, and be happy :). I also thought about the masters degrees in accouting/finance, but it seems that having a masters degree does not really give you any benefits (salary wise), besides a higher chance in getting jobs, and an opportunity to become a professor at a community college. </p>
<p>Dawgie, how do you managed to get those credentials so fast? Do you have a masters degree in something, or do you have a double major?</p>
<p>Why engineering + philosophy? Philosophy helps reading comprehension skills and reasoning for GMAT, and engineering is obviously good for the quant section. Also, these majors are great for the LSAT too if you so choose to do that. Look up LSAT on wiki and highest averages per major. These are considered more difficult majors which is looked upon favorably. In addition, engineering = higher starting salary. Stick with it for 4-5 years and move on to MBA to avoid the lower earnings potential in the long run. Also you can obtain the CFA without a finance or accounting degree. IMO, this is the optimal combination. You can choose to go Masters in Accounting too with that beast GMAT background (Scholarship $$$$$).</p>
<p>How did I get my credentials so fast? Pure hard work and above average level intelligence. 3 months for CPA, 3 months for CFA level 1.</p>
<p>Dawgie’s got a point about the philosophy major and logical reasoning. In multiple studies on LSAT (A test based on logical and analytical reasoning) scores for different college majors the top 3 in order are:</p>
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<p>Interesting to note that the engineering majors score below economics and philosophy majors, while accounting and business majors score well below the top 3.</p>
<p>I also agree that engineering plus MBA is a terrific route to take if you can handle the course loads and are interested in the subjects.</p>
<p>However, it’s important to distinguish between engineering disciplines. electrical, chemical, and computer hardware engineering disciplines are in decline in the United States. Civil engineering is a roller coaster ride of ups and downs because of the cyclical nature of construction. I firmly agree with the BLS’ assessment that petroleum engineering labor demand will outstrip labor supply for the foreseeable future. If I was going to do any engineering discipline it would be petroleum. Industrial and environmental engineering should be reasonably stable.</p>
<p>@ Juggernaut, where did you go to school?</p>
<p>So, what’s the consensus on this one, exactly? Would my job prospects be better coming out of a top school with an economics degree (currently planning to attend U of Chicago in the fall) or with a more vocational-type of business degree (accounting, finance, actuarial science) from some place like UIUC?</p>