<p>Your English professor is an idiot. Did she go to law school? There are plenty of reasons not to go to law school but majoring in English at Cornell is not one of them. Law school is rigorous largely because of bulk, not substance. There is nothing inherently difficult in the material. The subject matter is no more challenging than what you find in many undergraduate courses, English included. I was an English major and some of my law school classes were a breeze compared to my upper level English classes. Memory and information retrieval skills are very important for law school exams. They also happen to be very important in English exams so you may have practiced exactly what you need to do well in law school.</p>