<p>sybbie: Are you allowed to post that much of an excerpt from the book?</p>
<p>Everyone else: Except for maybe a handful of schools (Yale, Stanford, Boalt), it really doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, law school admissions deans will dignify their decision-making process in multiple ways, but the truth is that 99% of the law schools are number-freaks. If you have the numbers, you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>Now, I’ll admit, that for borderline applicants, having a stronger major will help. That’s about it. In my 1L class, I had classmates from all corners of academia (think American Studies, Vocal Performance, etc.). Did I have many classmates who did Political Science, Philosophy, History, English, Government or Economics? Sure, but I think that’s more self-selection than anything else.</p>
<p>We cannot confuse arguments here, though. I suspect people in this thread are trying to make the more subtle point that a strong undergraduate major prepares one better to take the LSAT and handle the rigor of law school. I think this claim is certainly true (though people in the aforementioned underrepresented law school majors did very well in the class), but I wouldn’t conflate this with a preference for such majors by law school admissions officers. It just doesn’t matter.</p>