UC Berkeley Legal Studies or Sociology

<p>Actually I checked and sociology might be slightly harder to get into (average gpa of admits was about .2 higher). But anyway, to back up what I said above:</p>

<p>Legal studies majors do poorly on the LSAT (perhaps too much memorization and not enough critical thinking?)</p>

<p>[Average</a> LSAT Scores for 29 Majors with over 400 Students Taking the Exam](<a href=“http://www.phil.ufl.edu/ugrad/whatis/LSATtable.html]Average”>http://www.phil.ufl.edu/ugrad/whatis/LSATtable.html)</p>

<p>Legal Studies majors get worse GPAs</p>

<p>Berkeley
Fall 2008<br>
Enrollees Cumulative UC GPA (after one year)</p>

<p>Legal Professions And Studies 14 2.98
Social Sciences 235 3.41</p>

<p>I pulled this off of statfinder.ucop.edu</p>

<p>custom tables –> persistence, graduation, and college GPA by entering class –> transfer students from california community colleges –> Fall 2008 (though you can select whichever years you like, the trend persists) –> California residents –> Berkeley –> UC GPA –> simple table –> most recent field of study –> run table</p>

<p>Obviously 14 is an extremely small sample size, but the figures still roughly agree with the past years and with what i’ve heard from friends.</p>