Pre-Med to Pre-law?

ilikepizza123
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:30:47 +0000

So I’ve kind of had a rocky start to my undergrad. Coming out of high school (2013 graduate) I knew I wanted to be Pre-Med and I knew I wanted to go to MSU. I was accepted to MSU and was offered a spot in their honors college but my parent’s encouraged me to take a full tuition scholarship through the honors program at Wayne State University. I was miserable at Wayne State. I felt like there was no campus life and I wanted the Big 10 school feel. I dropped out about halfway through my first semester and reapplied and was accepted again to MSU. I spent a lot of time at MSU before transferring in what was supposed to be my freshman winter semester of college, but with each visit to MSU and as the time came closer to transfer, I realized MSU wasn’t the right fit for me and I backed out at the last minute. I decided to take courses at my local community college to give myself more time to figure out what I wanted to do with my undergrad. I started volunteering at a local hospital and reaffirmed that I wanted to continue on the pre-med pathway.Meanwhile, I made a few visits to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and finally found home. I applied to Michigan and was accepted to transfer for the winter 2015 semester. So I picked up my associates, finished at my local community college with a 3.97, and packed my bags for Ann Arbor. Well here I am, 4 weeks in the semester and everything is just peachy except one thing- I think I’m making the wrong choice being a pre-med. I hate orgo so far and the thought of biochem, more physics, upper level bio, etc. is nauseating. I know I want to make a difference and work with people in my career but I’m starting to wonder if I’m just in love with the idea of being a doctor and am forcing myself into believing that I want to be a doctor (lots of other reasons I wanted to be a doctor and will have a hard time leaving this path, but I’m trying to get to my question). I don’t want to go into too much detail about what led me to consider law, but with my background (lots of science classes, kind of all over the place as far as transferring, close to the end of my sophomore year of undergrad) how difficult would it be for me to transition to being pre-law? Also, what kind of extra curriculars, internships, etc. do law schools look for with their applicants?