Harvard Law School

Demosthenes49
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:58:12 +0000

@Popcorn11201: HappyAlumnus is correct that you shouldn’t focus on HLS. That’s not because a different school would be a better fit, it’s because law school is a professional school and you should attend one based on its cost/likelihood of generating employment. But that’s a question for long down the line.

As someone entering undergrad, there are a few things to keep in mind as you go through. You should try to keep your GPA as high as possible. Law schools care about GPAs and not majors or class difficulty, so taking fluff is just fine.

Your major should be something you enjoy. I always recommend people at least minor in something that provides job skills. Law school doesn’t work out for the vast majority of people. 95% of people don’t score high enough on the LSAT to make it worthwhile. Of those who do, plenty don’t make it into big firms (even from HLS). That could happen to anyone, including you, so you need to make sure you’ll have backups ready to go.

You should intern in a law office. DA/PD/Legal Aid/Big Firm, it doesn’t matter that much. The point is to take a look at what law is really like rather than what they show you on TV. See what lawyers actually spend their days doing and then decide if that interests you.