Future law student

Transfer Students
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I am currently a community college student wishing to transfer in the near future. I’ve been in Korea most of my life and haven’t gone to school for the past eight years because I had many issues in school and out of school… But now I’m willing and motivated to study and I am getting A’s in all my classes but I still do no know what I should major in. I either want to study law or psychology because I could relate to both but I have no idea how it works here. I am confident that I could study in all areas but really do bad when it comes to math. However my goals are pretty high and either want to go to Berkeley or UCLA. If not, I was thinking of Pomona or Scripps. In the social and behavioral science area in IGETC, I just took psychology and sociology.

If I was to study law, should I take economics and political science in community college? Or could I take them later and just follow through with my IGETC? And would I have to major in legal studies when I transfer?

I know I still have another year until I transfer but I’m freaking out here because everyone I know is saying I should choose my major as soon as possible in order to transfer. I felt like I rambled on, please help me!

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Pre-law students can do any undergraduate major. What counts are GPA and LSAT scores; see http://lawschoolnumbers.com . Of course, some undergraduate majors and subjects may be relevant or necessary for specific types of law practice.

You do need to be ready to declare a major by the time you transfer. This means taking the prerequisites for your major. For UCs and CSUs, you can use http://www.assist.org to determine which courses at your community college you need to take for the majors you are interested in.

Be aware that the LSAT has a logic puzzle section. This may be where math and philosophy majors tend to do well on, due to the logical reasoning practice that they get in their majors. See http://www.lsac.org/jd/lsat/preparing-for-the-lsat for LSAT practice questions.