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Message: [QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 2225415, member: 127"] Many graduate degrees require just a bachelors and a good MCAT, LSAT etc but not any specific graduate degree. Teachers, lawyers, MBA seekers, architects etc don't require bachelors in a specific major for their undergraduate degree. In fact there is some evidence that having a divergent undergraduate degree prepares a student better for entrance exams to obtain professional graduate degrees. [URL]https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2012/10/29/future-law-students-should-avoid-prelaw-majors-some-say[/URL] In fact 25% of medical school students major in something other than biology, physical and social sciences. I bet some of those social science degrees, many would consider useless also yet they are included in the 75% number. Society just doesn't value education gathered straight from libraries and being informally educated. A bachelors is the basic requirement for many jobs today. I got married after my junior year in college and had a job but to even apply for many jobs required a bachelors degree. I finished my degree and immediately doubled my salary. I can guarantee you that I wasn't suddenly twice as smart but I earned my right by society to move up and be valued more by spending the time and money to complete my degree. Being an educated person can of course be gained outside college. My father built and fixed cars, any car, while 3 of his high school graduate entrepreneur brothers were brilliant in their fields, having 5 lucrative patents between them plus owning a well known construction company. They had informal educations and in depth understanding in very specific areas. They could have been engineers but would never have been hired without a degree. My father though before he passed away, lamented that the new technology in cars was mandating future auto nuts to be computer oriented and have some type of formal training. He said he always could just listen to a car and know what was wrong , but now cars are computerized, dependent on codes etc needing more specialized outside education and specialized machines to read what he used to do just by ear. I agree that alone many bachelors degrees aren't highly valued job and salary wise (your sociology, geography, anthropology etc degrees) but not having a bachelors shuts out so many future opportunities in today's world and is so much more difficult and time consuming to obtain after you have a family. [/QUOTE]

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