Marquette 3/3 BA/JD program worth it?

Vercengitorix
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 03:44:22 +0000

@Demosthenes49: I am not stuck in the 3/3 program if I commit. I can back out at any time but then I go back to being a regular honors student who must complete all four years of undergrad before law school, instead of three.

I haven’t decided what specialization I’m going into, but elder law is on my list, and so is tax law.

@Hanna: No, you do not, you can keep the 2.5k if you’ve already completed the year, but you forfeit the further years’ money. You also can’t skip senior year of undergrad if you go opt out of MU Law and go elsewhere. I would be spending one whole year taking electives in order to finish my BA.

@JonLaw: Speaking for myself, it’s because I am a history major and our modern world economy is structured such that the great value which a humanities degree provides (critical thinking skills, research experience, reading comprehension, and verbal communication) is overlooked in favor of people who know how to type equations into calculators, meaning that if I don’t want to make 35k per year working for the Washoga County Historical Society I must roll the dice with law school. There are really no other worthy options for those of us who have at least part of a brain yet were not endowed at birth with amazing mathematical skills.