<p>“Haha, no. It’s more difficult to get into Stanford’s law school than Stanford’s Engineering PhD programs, but I wouldn’t call the lawyers “smarter” than the engineers.”</p>
<p>That’s not a fair comparison as they attract completely different people. It’s not as if people rejected from law school decide “Oh well, I’ll just get an Engineering PHD then.” Industrial Engineering and Financial Engineering attracts a lot of the same people.</p>
<p>So your claim is that students that can’t cut it in financial engineering go into industrial engineering?</p>
<p>QwertyKey: Actually, you posted two contradictory statements:
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<p>By “attracts” I mean a lot of the people who would look at getting a degree in Financial Engineering would also look at an Industrial Engineering. Or maybe replace “same people” with “same type of people.”</p>
<p>“So your claim is that students that can’t cut it in financial engineering go into industrial engineering?”</p>
<p>That’s what I was figuring, is that not true?</p>
<p>Perhaps the original topic is more meaningful than semantics.</p>
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<p>No. That’s not true at all, much like all CE’s are not ChE drop outs because chemical engineers make more than civil engineers.</p>