Going to Graduate
School or Law School?
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A comprehensive study of college students' scores on major
tests used for admission to graduate and professional schools (LSAT, GRE,
GMAT) shows that students majoring in
Philosophy received scores substantially higher
than the average on each of the tests studied.
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Philosophy Majors received
higher scores on the LSAT than students in all other humanities
areas, higher scores than all social and natural science majors
except economics and mathematics, and higher scores than all applied
majors. Philosophy Majors scored
10% better than political science majors on the LSAT.
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Philosophy Majors outperformed
business majors by a margin of 15% on the GMAT and outperformed
every other undergraduate major except mathematics.
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Philosophy Majors' scores
on the verbal portion of the GRE were higher than in any other
major, even English.
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Philosophy Majors scored
substantially higher on the GRE than all other humanities majors
and were alone among humanities majors in scoring above the overall average.
(The study compared the scores of 550,000 college
students who took the LSAT, GMAT, and the verbal and quantitative
portions of the GRE with data collected over the previous eighteen
years and was conducted by the National Institute of Education and
reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education.)
Think about majoring in
Philosophy