<p>For anyone transferring into a Philosophy program – we must band together like the minute minority that we seem to be!</p>
<p>(I am suspecting that this thread will get a couple of posts and wilt… dammit)</p>
<p>[The 10 Most Worthless College Majors](<a href=“http://www.holytaco.com/2008/06/03/the-10-most-worthless-college-majors/”>http://www.holytaco.com/2008/06/03/the-10-most-worthless-college-majors/</a>)</p>
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<p>Yeah I’ve seen that before. Good thing it’s from holytaco.com?</p>
<p>That was hilarious, albeit a little harsh.</p>
<p>"0rganicGreenTea wrote:
The 10 Most Worthless College Majors</p>
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<p>Way to **** in the punchbowl, buddy.</p>
<p>How dare that child use an N64 controller as a bong, I still play N64 every now and then!</p>
<p>I wonder why poli sci wasn’t on there, my mom is always giving me grief about switching from a chem major to poli sci. </p>
<p>There is no way i would have ever been able to complete the upper division math courses once i transferred. Watching stuff titrate and determining densities is also mind numbingly boring. I wonder what organic chem labs would have been like? Probably a lot of distillations and stuff. That, and most problem sets in chemistry are much less compelling than even describing something as dry as the bureaucratic structures of Nigeria. I basically justed ditched the last 25%-33% of my chem 1 class (including labs, but not the final) because I did so well and was so bored and uninterested. I wish i didn’t do that though, becuase it was a 6-7 unit class and it really hurt my GPA, even with a B.</p>
<p>Learn from this someone. If you can fairly easily get an “A” in a class, do it. Don’t just say to yourself, “this class is so easy, i will just get a “B” instead of an “A” because i want to get a head start on break.”</p>
<p>Ah, all better now. i just had to vent that.</p>
<p>Somewhere i read a lot of chem majors actually end up in law school. Weird.</p>
<p>I’ve also heard that poli sci majors have gone on to Med school.</p>
<p>IMO, the only requirements for med and law school are 1) to be smart and (semi?) ambitious; and 2) to have at least some rudimentary preparation.</p>
<p>And ouch about that B. 
But I’m sure that it doesn’t affect you much if you’re applying to a Poli Sci program that you got a B in Chemistry.</p>
<p>I think for med school you really do need to have more preparation because the MCAT is much more specialized and requires a good knowledge of the hard sciences, whereas just about anyone who’s smart can do well on the LSAT. I will agree though that poli sci is probably the most popular pre-law major (probably because it’s really easy to get a high GPA).</p>
<p>^ True about med school.</p>
<p>I think that the top five for law are History, Pol. S., Philosophy, English and Econ (in no particular order).</p>
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<p>I’m thinking of majoring in philosophy. It’s always something I’ve loved to learn. What are your career plans after graduation, if you have any? I’m thinking of doing writing or going to business school.</p>
<p>A couple of possibilities…</p>
<p>Law school
Graduate school in English or Philosophy (to eventually teach)
Business school (after being in the job market for a while – interested in Management Consulting)
Editing / Science Writing (always been good at this, work in it right now)</p>
<p>It seems that the possibilities for Philosophy grads are endless most significantly because of the critical thinking aspect. General reasoning skills transcend all disciplines, and not only one specific field.</p>
<p>Hey just curious, but what’re you doing over there at USC now?</p>
<p>Proofread research grant proposals, publication submissions, and really a zillion other things. Well not really. But it is a busy office. :)</p>
<p>31 100a 154 - Ucla</p>
<p>Hello freudcarl and jermox, thanks for posting. :)</p>
<p>Do you any of you have any suggestions for this year’s Philosophy applicants? How do you like your programs? How’s the workload? Do you mind posting your stats, or PMing them to me? So many questions!</p>
<p>Hey man, I was just accepted from a cc. I really have no idea about their program or the workload. I can tell you that, for me, only my ethics class transferred as prep work. This may annoy some people, but I had a 2.99 gpa when I was accepted to UCLA. I believe that I showed a high gpa lvl throughout the last couple semesters (around 3.5 I think) so that may be what they have looked at. Also, they may have liked my essay and the fact philosophy wasn’t an impacted major helps. I know they wouldn’t of accepted me at Berkeley; I didn’t even try.</p>
<p>I have to say that UCLA philosophy is difficult, rigorous and demanding on their students. You should take a look at major requirements and see if you’re on the right track for completing them in 2 years (or 3).</p>
<p>I think a lot of philosophy majors are in for a surprise, to put it lightly. I just took philosophy over summer school and the reading load was amazing, as in crazy time consuming. Average of 60 pages a day. One day, I had 120. You really can’t fall behind, otherwise you’ll be looking at a mounting number for your reading.</p>
<p>I got into UCSD, UCD, Berkeley and UCLA. I picked UCLA for departmental reasons.</p>
<p>All I can say is to anyone here that is applying as a philosophy major to any university, research the department, look at the courses offered (to see if they are more along your interest) and don’t be afraid to e-mail the philosophy department to ask questions. I wouldn’t bother the professors, but I would ask the departmental advisers.</p>
<p>It’s going to be an interesting year.</p>
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<p>Further proof Philosophy majors have it easy… I remember having to cover roughly three to four bio chapters a week (averaging 50-ish pages per chapter, except for that god awful 140 pg. neuroscience chapter). Tests every 2 weeks covering no less than seven chapters, and we were expected to know the chapters front to back. Try keeping up that pace for 3 months (regular semester)… </p>
<p>Hell, I could probably still hand sketch the method in which wastes and water are filtered from the blood in the nephron of the human kidney.</p>
<p>It probably didn’t help any that our prof was the head of the department and had previously taught at Stanford. </p>
<p>You have no idea how much pleasure I derived from outperforming all the UCLA students who thought they’d just take their lower division bio at the local CC because it was “easier”. Their constant complaining that it was “the hardest class I’ve ever taken” warms my heart just thinking about it.</p>
<p>On topic: There’s still time to correct your mistake guys try your hand at the sciences or failing that, have a back up plan for when you realize that the philosophy degree you worked for all those years isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.</p>
<p>You must have never taken a real Philosophy class then. Biology is about facts and regurgitating them. You can sketch the wastes and water from the kidney – you can regurgitate the image. Come on now, we’ve all taken Bio.</p>
<p>Philosophy reading is multi-facted, often convoluted and abstract, and requires LOTS of thought (obviously). In other words, you don’t really think that 60-120 Philosophy pages are equivalent to 60-120 Bio, Neuro, whatever pages, do you? Where’s that conversion chart? Fact of the matter is that there is no conversion, and you can’t assign either topic a value based on that. That would be arbitrary.</p>
<p>Your claims about Philosophy and its uselessness as a whole are 100% perspectival, and I can sense that. I’m a Philosophy major. :)</p>
<p>Either way, I’m not naive. I know that the job placement stats for Philosophy grads are pretty dim, but that doesn’t really matter much to me since I’m a pre-law student, and have wanted to go to law school as far back as I could remember.</p>