alt Hacker News> Citation heavily needed.
Have a look at the scatter plot for math and verbal SAT scores:
https://www.statcrunch.com/reports/view?reportid=21828&tab=p...
There is a significant correlation between higher scores on one and higher scores on the other.
> Because here in the real world the barrier to entry in SW engineering jobs is significantly lower than the law bar or med school. Not to mention cheaper.
The barrier to either of those professions is getting good grades and then scoring well enough on a standardized test, and the entire premise is that the professions pay well which is how people pay back the loans.
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>There is a significant correlation between higher scores on one and higher scores on the other.
That really doesn't mean SW engineers could be good lawyers or doctors. It's a very superficial evidence.
Your high sat scores won't prevent you from puking at the sight of corpses or diseases.
There's way more to performing in medicine that sat scores.
I can become a SW engineer without a degree of any kind, it's only helpful, but becoming a doctor requires everything you mentioned