<p>If you want to be a lawyer major in Philosophy, Econ, Math, Physics or Engineering. The reason these majors do the best as they are all extremely rigorous. Philosophy majors take formal logic, which is directly on the LSAT in the form of logic games. Also, the textual analysis skills philosophy imparts with its extremely difficult texts lends itself well for the LSAT and the work of lawyers.
Poli Sci and History are traditional undergrad majors for lawyers but if you look at the statistics they do not do as well as much of those classes is memorization and not critical thinking. </p>
<p>I’m sorry but to anyone who has been to UCLA can immediately notice how attractive the people are. I have only visited UCB(Many times for football games etc), UCLA(Once), and UCSD(Once) but UCLA seemed the more attractive in regards to people. It might have to do with the weather…girls are wearing summer dresses, short shorts etc. Although, this does not explain why the weather=attractiveness does not apply to UCSD…</p>
<p>Berkeley is definitely more laid back and intellectual in the traditional coffee shop discussion sense. I find the city of Berkeley disgusting. It is extremely dirty, and lots of homeless people. The campus is amazing though and you can feel the spirits of great intellects in the air. The library looks straight out of Hogwarts from Harry Potter and there is dedicated parking spots for Nobel Laureates if that says anything to you.
UCLA is super upbeat, bright, beautiful, and for my tastes a little too fast-paced. Super nice area albeit very commercial when compared to the awesome variety of businesses around the Berkeley campus. A way to describe UCLA would be the “Disney-Channel” college.</p>
<p>Btw. law schools do not “frown” on legal studies majors especially out of Berkeley. It is the crappy state schools “legal studies majors” that they frown upon as the major reduces the study of law and hence the foundation of society to a mere trade school.( Albeit that is what it is, law schools need to face this fact.)
Diversity is what law schools want and as long as you do great on the LSAT and have a high GPA, a Music Major, Theater or Fashion Major still has a great chance for great law schools.</p>