communication major as pre-law

Student615
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:54:35 +0000

i am considering COMMUNICATION and English for my major, because i am not much of a sicence person. Although i enjoy and excel at math, i do not want to persue a career in that field.



If you want to study communications, study it because you’re interested and/or you know it will lead you to where you want to go. A communications degree in itself won’t keep you out of law school. That said, it’s a degree that sometimes turns up in “Things we don’t love to see…” quotes from admissions officers (I know the quotes have shown up in this forum, but I can’t locate them at the moment), so if you’re settling on the degree because you’re “not much of a science person,” or simply because you think it’s a practical choice for a law school bound student, you’re not doing yourself any favors. Be a bit wary.

Have you attended any sort of “major fair” at your college, or spent time in the career planning office? Make sure you know what’s out there…the non-mathy sciences, other humanities, liberal arts in general. And have you taken communications courses, or are you just assuming that it would be an okay path?

I know people who’ve majored in communications and gone on to find and excel at wonderful careers. I don’t have a grudge against the degree, but the reasons you give for your preference make me skeptical (especially given that it’s not exactly a recommended major for law-bound students, even if it is an acceptable one).