Anyone use Rate My Professors .com?

[sanantone]

How well do philosophy majors do in life?

They do well when they go to a top law school or go into a medical professional. According to Payscale, the mid-career salary for having a philosophy degree, alone, is not that bad and is higher than majors such as biochemistry and information technology. You can go into a field that requires any generic bachelor's (many business jobs fall into that category) and work your way up. So, even though employers rarely specifically ask for a philosphy degree, the analytical skills of philosophy majors help them excel in the jobs they do get.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/top-best-...03186.html

Highest Paying Bachelors Degrees | PayScale

I do not consider GMAT, LSAT, GRE, SAT and ACT test takers more intelligent people. Just tests written by the Edu-Gov complex.

Here we go again... We can rarely have a long discussion on this forum without someone bringing in government conspiracy theories or blaming the government for everything that's wrong in the world. Regardless of what one thinks about graduate admissions tests (there is evidence that they aren't all that great at predicting success), you need them to get into many graduate programs. If you're scoring low, then your options will be limited to lower-tiered schools in most cases or Caribbean medical schools and possibly programs that offer no funding for assistantships.

I also learned a ton from history and genealogy. Most studied on my own. One who majors in History vs general Gen-Ed courses are not the same thing. I respect a history major....GenEdu not so much.

According to Trainrunr, who you seem to agree with a lot, history and other majors like it are a waste of taxpayer dollars and are only being kept afloat by general education requirements. Of course, since my posts do not align with your opinions and ideology, you do not like the facts I posted showing that history is a popular major that does not need to be propped up by general education requirements. Just because someone chooses not to major in history does not mean that it is not important to learn the basics of history.

I apologize for contributing to the off-topic discussion in this thread. My original points were

1. I, personally, would want to get something out of a course I paid several hundred dollars for and spent 8-16 weeks completing. Some people aren't paying for their education, so they don't care about throwing away money.

2. Review sites suffer from self-selection bias. Those who have a complaint are more likely to write a review.

3. I'm not sure if RMP is all that useful for graduate students since most of the reviews are written by undergraduate students.

4. Many students complain about things I find petty while not paying attention to things I think are important.

5. I think RMP is better used for finding which instructors are awful rather than looking for an easy A, but some people don't care about learning and it shows.