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Originally Posted by Calculusaurus  Physics majors get into better business grad school programs than the economics majors do. Not as many apply, but physics will make you think, it will give you a new way of looking at the world and requires an incredible cognitive force to tread through. I'm basically committing public suicide by saying this, but economics is often a load of BS. Arbritrary, meaningless esoteric knowledge might make you sound like a well-toned intellectual in your 400-level ECON course, but does little in making you really THINK. |
Assuming what you say is correct (that physics students get into better bus. grad. schools), it does make a bit of sense. The MBA was initially created so that engineering graduates could get a solid grounding in management, and engineering isn't so far away from physics, so perhaps the people at the application office are trying to get the programme back to its roots. Also they might get let in so that there is more diversity in the group of students studying, this is quite important as some people do the MBA just for networking oppurtunities, so a more diverse group of people = more networks in different areas.
My physics understanding is reletivley low (Just finished high school this year, and I did physics this year), but it was mainly just a lot of plug-and-chuging numbers into equations, perhaps the higher levels get you to 'think' more, I don't know.
Also, a lot of academia is generally just a load of 'BS' and random knowledge -- including physics.
Personally, I'm trying to make some decisions about what to do at Uni next year. I've been pretty set on this whole commerce thing for a while now, and figure I'll do it. Had up until recently been considering doing a LLB (law degree - here in NZ law is a undergrad degree) and a BCA (Commerce degree, similar to your (America's) BBS). However, I don't want to be a lawyer and the only papers I'm
really interested in the law degree are the higher stage commercial law papers, which I wouldn't touch until my 5th year. So I've been thinking about dropping the law and picking up a BA with some general interest subjects like polisci, philosphy and then economics (as a lot of the course can be crosscredited from the BCA would make it an easy major to attain). But yeah, guess I have some thinking to do...