<p>I want to get into civil/structural engineering, but I also want to do law school afterwards. I am only looking at UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, Stanford, Both Cal Polys, Stanford, and Cornell. Looking at their majors and minors, they do not offer Poli Science as a minor. What should I major/minor or double major in?</p>
<p>Since all ABET-accredited engineering degree programs have humanities and social studies requirements, you can just take political science courses of your choice as your breadth courses. Why would you need an official minor?</p>
<p>No specific major, minor, or course work is needed to go to law school. Engineering majors tend to do better than political science majors on the LSAT anyway, according to <a href=“Page Cannot be Found”>LSAT Scores of Economics Majors: The 2008-2009 Class Update by Michael Nieswiadomy :: SSRN; (list of majors on the last page of the PDF).</p>
<p>UCSD structural engineering may not be what you think it is.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus , I know that we do not need to major in polisci, etc., but my gpa is not the best, and I would prefer a better strong suit with Structural engineering on the side. I would prefer history, econ, etc. and then minor in the science/engineering.</p>
<p>If the goal is to go into patent law, take a look at the requirements for the patent exam.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.uspto.gov/ip/boards/oed/GRB_March_2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.uspto.gov/ip/boards/oed/GRB_March_2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>See page 4 for undergraduate degrees that automatically qualify. See page 5 for course work requirements in science and/or engineering if your degree is not one of the automatically qualifying ones.</p>