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Why do so many Philospher majors excel in law, business,
education, the ministry, and medicine?
According to a recent study:
- On the LSAT, Philosophy and Religion majors outscored
majors in Economics, Business, International Relations,
and Public Administration.
- On the GMAT, Philosophy majors scored higher than
majors in Economics, Statistics, Accounting, Business,
Management, or Marketing
- 48% of Philosophy majors who applied were accepted to
medical school, compared with 43% of Biochemistry majors,
42% of Pre-Med majors, 35% of Biology majors, 25%
of Nursing majors, and only 22% of Pharmacy majors.
What happens to Western’s philosophy and religion majors?
In recent years, our alumni have been accepted at top-flight
graduate and professional schools, including University of
Georgia, Villanova University, Rutgers University Law School,
Case Western Reserve Law School, and Duke University Law
School. They've worked as a job corps instructor, a newspaper
editor, a computer programmer, a building contractor, a counselor,
a community service director, an architectural assistant,
and an emergency medical technician.
Who else majors in philosophy?
As the following list shows, philosophy majors are ready
for anything:
- Steve Allen (writer & comedian)
- Amartya Sen (winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics)
- William Bennett (former Drug czar & NEH leader, BOOK
OF VIRTUES)
- William Jefferson Clinton (President)
- Woody Allen (director & comedian)
- Mary Higgins Clark (mystery writer)
- Gene Siskel (movie reviewer)
- Philip K. Dick (on whose science-fiction classic Blade
Runner is based)
- John Elway (quarterback, Denver Broncos)
- Ivan Frolov (editor of PRAVDA)
- Rebecca Goldstein (novelist & MacArthur prize recipient)
- Harrison Ford (actor)
- Vaclav Havel (former President of Czeckoslovakia)
- Mark Hulbert (financial columnist for FORBES magazine)
- Carl Icahn (business person & corporate raider, bought
TWA)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights leader)
- Bruce Lee (martial arts & actor)
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- Steve Martin (comedian & actor)
- Kate Millett (author of SEXUAL POLITICS)
- Iris Murdoch (novelist)
- Freeman Patterson (photographer, author of THE ART OF
SEEING)
- Neil Peart (drummer for rock group, RUSH)
- Pope John Paul II (vicar of Christ)
- Mick Schmidt (former Philadelphia Philly)
- John Silber (former president of Boston University
- Susan Sontag (essayist)
- Dave Thomas (SCTV)
- Alex Trebeck (JEOPARDY)
- David Foster Wallace (novelist & MacArthur prize
recipient)
- Moses Znaimer, (Owner of CITY-TV and MUCH-MUSIC, Toronto)
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