What are some good degrees for law school?

HappyAlumnus
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 18:21:05 +0000

Anything that’s rigorous and that you’ll get good grades in.

“Hard” majors don’t necessarily result in bad grades; if you love something, it’ll come naturally. For example, I’d do much better in something like calculus than something like early childhood education or social work.

Ideally, the major would also be marketable (in case you decide not to go to law school) and would require you to read and write with precision.

There are only a few “bad” majors for law school: criminal justice, prelaw, any “fluff” major such as basketweaving. Law school admissions committees are not idiots; they’ll look at your GPA and see what your GPA “really” means by looking it in the context of your school and your major–meaning that a 3.85 GPA in dog petting at Junk State isn’t the same as a 3.85 in electrical engineering at MIT–despite what one poster on this board says, without supporting evidence.