How important are high-school "career" classes?

Zealously
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:49:39 +0000

Long story short (because I don’t feel like typing out a whole paragraph right now), my high school offers many vocational classes like health science (clinical rotations), culinary arts (running a restaurant for a school), and law (mock trials). I’ve been drilled ever since I was young that I was to become a doctor, so I naturally took the medical vocational classes. However, I didn’t really enjoy them that much and have decided to pursue a different course in college about the topics I am truly passionate about: law (political science, argument, rhetoric).

However, I already have this rigorous health science class under my belt, while other prospecting law students from my high school have taken the Law I/Law II courses at my school as well as doing well in mock trial competitions. Would my experience in taking the medical vocational class be detrimental in applying to colleges/law schools, as I didn’t take advantage of these law classes in high school?