That’s not at all unusual. I am certain, if you scratch the surface, you will see that they were English majors with proven math ability. And at least 95% of people hired right out of college by consulting firms will leave within 2-3 years, some to go to business school or other graduate school, others to take different jobs. I am not certain I have ever heard of someone hired out of college sticking with a major consulting firm as a career job.
@cobrat : Great reading comprehension. I tell a poster who has said that he dislikes economics that, in his case, the only value of an economics major is showing the world that he’s interested in business or finance and has “decent” math skills, and you “correct” me by pointing out that not all economics majors know high level math but that a lot of math will be required for someone who wants to get a PhD in economics. Which is all true, but utterly irrelevant to someone who has already made it clear that he has no real interest in economics as an academic discipline.
Which hardly makes the OP unusual. The vast, vast, vast majority of college economics majors have neither interest in nor hope of getting a PhD in economics. They are majoring in economics because they believe it shows their interest in business and finance, or maybe even policy analysis, and because it gives them marketable analytic tools, mainly consisting of math applications. Furthermore, even if they take a math-lite path through their econ majors, taking whatever the minimum is for their BA or BS (and, by the way, show me an economics BS program that does not involve substantial math), if they are successful at all they will have demonstrated well above-average math competence, i.e., decent math skills. Which is all anyone but a handful of people in the real world ever need.