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Business school has weeder courses? Maybe algebra? I thought that was strictly engineering.
by madengr 8y ago
Business school has weeder courses? Maybe algebra? I thought that was strictly engineering.
- ynot269 8y agoyou're forgetting chem/bio majors and organic chem
- ghaff 8y agoHeh. I started out interested in biomedical engineering. The Biomedical part lasted until I took organic chemistry. I wasn't especially horrible at it but I sure didn't like it.
- chapium 8y agoStatistics
- Tyrek 8y agoStats, Intermediate Accounting, Microeconomic Theory are a couple of the 'weeder' courses off the top of my head.
- ghaff 8y agoI did tutoring while I was getting my MBA. Yep. Basically the first year quant courses: stats, micro, accounting, finance, ops. There were students I tutored whose math basically ended with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. I actually had one ask me to explain graphs (as in cartesian coordinates) to them. You can also find a number of books written about 1st year MBA experiences on this general theme.
- AdamM12 8y agoThis is the saddest thing I've read today. Also could you provide book titles?
- ghaff 8y agoSnapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA by Peter Robinson This isn't the one I was thinking of and I only found it because I vaguely know the author. Peter Cohen's The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School is another older one. There's a third I was thinking of but I don't see it on my shelf and it seems to be Google resistant.
- AdamM12 8y agoThanks and also did you tutor undergrads or fellow MBA's? Wasn't exactly clear but sounds like the latter.
- ghaff 8y agoLatter. So college graduates but woefully weak in even basic math. At the time, the school (which was a moderately elite one) even had a "math camp" prior to classes beginning for those who weren't comfortable with their math skills. But obviously there's not a lot you can do for students who are essentially at a grade school level.
- madengr 8y agoHa ha, well the business majors being weeded out with college algebra, was supposed to be a joke. Sadly it seems true.