Do business schools favor social sciences applicants?

I was just wondering why many business school class profiles show a majority of social science majors. Is it from the economics majors at the Ivies?

Also, why is a large chunk of the class from consulting/PE/VC? These careers seem uncommon for a recent college grad to me - especially for social science majors. These jobs seems like they would be rare.

What is more intriguing to me is why so few "business" majors actually make up the class.

I am confused; are the target schools skewing these statistics?

Thanks.

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^^^^ yup. Many b-schools make an effort include people from different majors in their program

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Are the people that make up the chunk of social science majors different from the people that make up the chunk of high finance people?

 

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