Undergrad law? A few questions, extremely confused D:

floridadad55
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:56:48 +0000

In my opinion, it does not matter what you major in if you intend to apply to law school.

The only problem I see in majoring in law as an undergraduate is that it would be pretty worthless unless you indeed wound up going to law school. Majoring in law, undergraduate, might make law school a tiny bit easier. If you think about it, if someone wants to be a lawyer, they could really kind of skip college and simply start going to law school, but that’s not the way it is done.

It also doesn’t matter where you go to law school if you want to work in corporate law, in that all the top law schools are pretty much the same. But if you don’t get into a top law school, I would seriously consider not going to law school, because of the vast over-supply of lawyers. You can get a graduate law degree in corporate law by going an extra year to law school, but most people don’t do this, and it is unnecessary, because while you are at law school, you will just use your elective courses to take corporate law.

In my opinion, political science and history are really the best majors for law school, but it really doesn’t matter. What will matter more is your gpa and your lsat.

What I think you need to know, however, that given the over-supply of lawyers, and the 3 years of study, and extra money involved, going to law school, in my opinion, may not be a wise course of action.