Best major (choosing between better employability and poli sci).

HappyAlumnus
Thu, 14 May 2015 01:20:49 +0000

@SoccerMomGenie, thanks for your post. It’s brilliant and if there were a “sticky” or something on this board, it should be posted there. Anyone applying to law school should read it.

@STEMsupport, we all agree that GPA/LSAT are very important in law school admissions. The issue is whether or not:

(A) GPA/LSAT (or maybe URM status) are the sole criteria that law schools use, or

(B) GPA/LSAT are definitely the main factors, but if once someone has GPA/LSAT numbers within a range that’s acceptable to the law school, law schools will then consider other factors, however secondary, particularly when there are more eligible applicants than slots to fill (e.g., work experience, general employability, undergraduate school/major).

My view is (B).

There’s another current thread in which the topic is also being discussed, and one other poster goes so far to say that even a re-applicant to a school from which the person was banned due to behavior issues would have only GPA/LSAT considered when reapplying, to the exclusion of other factors (position A).