GPA and law school question

Vissanik
Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:09:49 +0000

Hello all, I am only going to be a freshman at Stanford next year, but I plan to attend law school in four years. I have been considering double majoring in econ and chinese, the former because it is practical and the latter because I find it interesting and think it might at the very least give me an edge in admissions for being somewhat unusual in my scope of study and/or perspectives I bring to the table; however, the core of my problem is wether it is good to maximize my gpa by only single majoring or to take the risk of having my gpa take a slight hit while majoring in two subjects, one of which may have the benefits I mentioned previously. Thanks for your advice.