Consider these numbers from the College Board (SAT/GRE folks) [1]: Total of Reading, Math, Writing scores on SAT by college plans: 1488 -- Visual & Performing

Consider these numbers from the College Board (SAT/GRE folks) [1]: Total of Reading, Math, Writing scores on SAT by college plans: 1488 -- Visual & Performing Arts 1476 -- Psychology 1587 -- Philosophy & Religious Studies 1606 -- Computer & Information Science and Support Services 1612 -- Engineering 1685 -- Physical Sciences 1714 -- Mathematical Sciences As anyone that has been around a US university lately knows, non-native English speakers are overrepresented in CS departments and consequently, this bring down the verbal and hence overall SAT scores for CS a bit. Furthermore, that's a pretty big category for CS that includes some of the far less theoretical areas. I've noticed, more than once, that Philosophy majors feel that they are somehow in a rarified domain where the things they do are far beyond the understanding of the rest of us. A bit like my father, a doctorate in Theology, that was worried that if I went to MIT I would end up being a super TV repairman. Academic papers and books in Philosophy are at times obtuse, but really no more difficult than reading a paper on, say, orogeny, out of my field, so slow going, but not impossible (it's the study of how geologic processes form mountains). Can Philosophy majors say the same thing about my books on Ring theory, Measure theory, Category Theory, Stats, Machine learning, Computability, Compilers, or Operating Systems? I've tried to understand general relativity (to no avail) and my struggles with quantum theory have given me a great respect for Physics majors--they deserve their place at the top of the academic IQ ladder, but Philosophy majors should perhaps take a peek at what some of the rest of us work on. [1] https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/total-group-2016.pdf https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/total-group-2016.pdf