| Philosophy is the single best major for learning how to attack and defend positions--to argue. That being said, philosophy majors on average score highest on GRE verbal comprehension and Analytical writing sections. Wanna go to a top law school, philosophy is the major to best give you the skills to be worthy of acceptance.
Next to philosophy, ide say classics is a great thing to minor in. Political science is alright too, but as far as I believe, it won't equip you with the skill set needed for law school. Sure, you will know laws and court cases and such that a philosophy major will likely not know, but your writing/reasoning ability will likely not be near as good as if you were doing philosophy.
And as far as I have heard, if you are a political science major going into law school, you may think you have memorized a lot of cases, but in reality you havent memorized a thing in comparison to what they are going to throw at you.
And i can assure that memorizing a few extra cases is significantly easier than rechanging the way you think, debate, and persuade. That takes years to significantly change. |