Wellesley College
Department of Philosophy
Departmental Handbook (1997-1998)

TEST PERFORMANCE BY UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR, 1981-82
Total number of respondents: 398,768

Table lists percentages by which majors in each field scored above or below the mean scores of all test takers in 1981-82

 

Undergraduate Major

LSAT

GMAT

GRE: Verbal

GRE: Quant

Size of sample

Humanities

Philosophy

8.7%

11.00%

17.6%

4.6%

3,410

English

5.6%

4.1%

14.5%

-5.7%

17,757

History

2.9%

4.6%

10.8%

-5.5%

15,123

Foreign Languages

5.7%

3.3%

7.9%

-4.2%

17,068

Arts and Music

-0.5%

-1.2%

1.7%

-8.4%

9,670

Other humanities

4.7%

1.8%

7.3%

-5.0%

8,341

Social Sciences

Economics

9.6%

7.3%

0.8%

12.4%

17,562

Government

3.3%

4.6%

(Included below)

Political Science

-1.6%

0.6%

3.5%

-5.0%

27,337

Psychology

0.9%

0.8%

3.1%

-4.0%

24,885

Sociology

-0.7%

-0.5%

-0.7%

-1.5%

8,693

Anthropology

4.0%

ND

16.4%

-1.7%

1,863

Natural Science

Biology and bioscience

4.0%

3.3%

5.4%

8.0%

22,820

Chemistry

7.6%

7.5%

2.1%

18.3%

6,867

Mathematics

12.8%

13.3%

2.7%

26.3%

6,564

Physics

ND

ND

6.6%

29.5%

3,183

Other science

2.8%

0.8%

3.5%

14.5%

9,154

Business

Accounting

3.4%

-1.5%

-9.1%

-2.3%

77,679

Finance

3.4%

-0.8%

Marketing

ND

-8.1%

Business admin.

-4.5%

ND

Management

-5.4%

-7.7%

Other business

-0.9%

-5.0%

Other Majors

Computer Science

ND

5.4%

-1.5%

22.9%

5,035

Engineering

8.0%

10.0%

-7.3%

25.1%

29,718

Journalism

0.7%

ND

5.7%

-8.6%

2,767

Social Work

-10.1%

ND

-9.1%

-20.8%

2,999

Speech

-2.7%

ND

-6.0%

-14.3%

2,159

Education

-8.7%

-4.2%

-10.4%

-15.8%

22,978

SUMMARY OF COMPARATIVE DATA FOR PHILOSOPHY MAJORS, 1977-1982

Academic Year

LSAT

GMAT

GRE: Verbal

GRE: Quant

1977-78

8.9%

11.2%

18.4%

5.4%

1978-79

8.6%

9.9%

19.4%

5.2%

1979-1980

7.2%

10.8%

19.5%

5.0%

1980-81

8.8%

11.4%

17.9%

3.3%

1981-82

8.7%

11.0%

17.6%

4.6%


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