NYT: The Default Major: Skating Through B-School

The New York Times recently ran a piece called: The Default Major: Skating Through B-School. basically, it's calling out all the default business majors and their general apathy, laziness and lack of knowledge relative to years past.

Specifically, this is what they are calling out:

Intelligence: And when business students take the GMAT, the entry examination for M.B.A. programs, they score lower than students in every other major.

Group Projects: While some group projects are genuinely challenging, the consensus among students and professors is that they are one of the elements of business that make it easy to skate through college.

The ease of classes: One senior accounting major at Radford, who asked not to be named so as not to damage his job prospects, says he goes to class only to take tests or give presentations.

The weakness of management and marketing: In contrast to finance, she says, the marketing final she took earlier in the week consisted mostly of multiple-choice questions that had already appeared on previous tests this quarter. For the management final, students could bring a cheat sheet. Ms. Berry’s sheet, in tiny multicolored script, is a thing of beauty: the five-factor model of personality. Bounded rationality. Anchoring bias. Distributive versus procedural theories of fairness.

Interesting critiques, but with any article summarizing a study you don't have the underlying data, you want to question the results. First, the GMAT scores - are these controlled by school (meaning a history major at school X outscored a business major at school Y)? If not, what about SAT score? Are schools that don't have business majors are usually harder to get into, ie biased towards students with higher GMAT scores?