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Graduate Students

1.2 Admissions Guidelines

Basic requirements for admission are established by the Graduate School; for a summary see either the Graduate School Handbook or Book 2 ("Graduate School") of The Ohio State University Bulletin. In recommending applicants to the Graduate School for admission, the Graduate Committee of the Department of Philosophy pays particular attention to the following:

1. The submitted paper.
2. Letters of recommendation.
3. Undergraduate grade record. Although a cumulative gradepoint average of 2.7 (on the standard 4.0 scale) is the minimum required by the Graduate School for regular admission, successful applicants for the Ph.D. program in philosophy generally have an average of 3.0 or above. An undergraduate major in philosophy is not a prerequisite for admission.
4. Graduate grade record, if any (see sec.1.3 below).
5. Graduate Record Examination scores. Successful applicants typically have an average percentile score of at least 75% on the Quantitative and Verbal portions of the examination and a score of at least 5.0 on the Analytical Writing portion. For information on other categories of admission, see the Graduate School Handbook (Section 4-4).

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