| For me, my E.E. degree did nothing but help my chances of being admitted to law school - but I was able to maintain a pretty decent GPA. It seems to me that top 10-20 law schools will discount your undergrad major, and focus more on the numbers (how else do you think they got to the top?). However, the bottom half of the top tier and below seem to give credit to those who had the tougher majors as undergrads.
It's been my experience that those with engineering backgrounds do better on average in law school. Likely because they've been trained to work through problems, which is what most law school exams focus on. I think most admissions offices are realizing this, and taking it into account. With that said, a horrible GPA won't make up for any degree, including engineering. As far as which undergrad major prepares you the best, it's tough to say - but if you want to do patent law, then engineering/science is obviously a must.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), the #1 factor to getting into law school is the LSAT. A good or a bad LSAT score will trump anything else that you've done. |