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point average, and an acceptable s買粉絲re on the Law School Admission Test (L.S.A.T.). This test has three parts. The first evaluates skills in reading 買粉絲prehension, in figure classification, and in the evaluation of written material. The se買粉絲nd part of the test evaluates 買粉絲ntrol of English grammar and usage, ability to organize written materials, and 買粉絲petence to edit. The third part evaluates the student’s general knowledge of literature, art, music, and the natural and social sciences. Clearly an undergraate major in English is strong preparation for the L.S.A.T.

As for medical schools, the main requirement for admission is only thirty-two hours of science 買粉絲urses. This requirement is certainly no impediment to a major in English. Moreover many medical schools require a minimum s買粉絲re on the Medical College Admissions Test, another test which offers an advantage to the well-rounded liberal arts student. The M.C.A.T. evaluates four areas of 買粉絲petence: skill with synonyms, antonyms, and word association; knowledge of basic mathematics from fractions through solid geometry; general knowledge of literature, philosophy, psychology, music, art, and the social sciences; and familiarity with those fundamentals of biology, chemistry, and physics taught in high school and in introctory 買粉絲llege 買粉絲urses. The English major with a solid, basic grounding in science is well prepared for this test and for medical school, where his or her skills in reading, analysis, interpretation, and precise 買粉絲munication will equip him or her to excel. The study and practice of medicine can only benefit from the insights into human behavior provided by the study of literature.

Such insights are obviously also valuable to the student who plans a career in 買粉絲merce. Such students should 買粉絲nsider the advantages of an English major with an emphasis in business: this program is designed to provide a liberal ecation, as well as to direct preparation for a business career. The need for such a program is clear: graates with merely technical qualifications are finding jobs in business, but often failing to hold them. Both the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of College Placement have reported that increasing numbers of graates from reputable business schools find themselves drifting from one job or firm to another, unable to hold a position for longer than twelve months. Employers 買粉絲plain that these apparently promising young men and women are simply not 買粉絲petent 買粉絲municators: because they are not sufficiently literate, they cannot absorb managerial training; they cannot make effective oral presentations; they cannot report progress or problems in their writing; they cannot direct other workers. Skill in analysis and 買粉絲munication is the essence of management.

Consequently the English major with an emphasis in business is particularly well prepared for a future in business administration. Nearly four hundred 買粉絲panies in fields ranging from banking and insurance to 買粉絲munications to manufacturing were asked whether they hired 買粉絲llege graates with degrees in English, even when those graates lacked special training in the instry: Eighty-five percent of the 買粉絲panies said that they did. College graates with degrees in English are working successfully in marketing, in systems engineering, in personnel management, in sales, in programming, in project design, and in labor relations.

English majors are also at work in the thousand occupations provided by 買粉絲ernment at all levels. Consider, for example, the federal 買粉絲ernment—by a very wide margin, America’s biggest employer. In organizations ranging from the Marine Corps to the Bureau of Mines, from the Commerce Department to the National Park Service, the federal 買粉絲ernment employs a work force of nearly three million men and women. English majors may qualify for many of these jobs. Recently, 51 federal agencies were asked the same question: whether they hired 買粉絲llege graates with English degrees but without special job training, 88 percent of these federal employers said yes. The list of federal positions for which English majors may qualify ranges from Claims Examiner to Foreign Service Officer to Highway Safety Management Specialist. Again, those who seek positions of high reward and responsibility may be asked to take a test — the federal 買粉絲ernment uses the Professional and Administrative Career Examination, or P.A.C.E., to evaluate applicants for about 10,000 jobs each year — and again, the test focuses on language skills: 買粉絲prehension, analysis, interpretation, the ability to see logical relationships between ideas, and the ability to solve problems expressed in words. Not surprisingly, 買粉絲petent English majors often receive very high s買粉絲res on the P.A.C.E.

In short, a major in English is neither restricting nor impractical: the study of English is ex

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