Right, the liking and being good at Physics thing isn’t a problem, it is the not being as good at English part that I would reflect on.
Because the vast majority of lawyer jobs are fundamentally reading and writing jobs. Even patent attorneys.
And I feel like the lack of clear communication on this point is part of why so many people fall into law school and then end up hating being a lawyer.
Just to begin with, you don’t see many lawyers on TV just reading and writing for long hours.
Moreover, kids thinking about law school often talk about areas of the law they think would be cool based on their interests in the non-legal subject area–like, they are interested in environmental issues so they talk about environmental law, or they are interested in business so they talk about business law, or patent law because they like STEM, or so on.
But what is missing in all this is what the LAWYERS specifically do when it comes to the environment, business, STEM, or so on. And what the lawyers do is not necessarily something most people with those interests actually want to be doing! Indeed, it can be frustrating to be directly seeing people doing things you would find interesting, but instead you have to do the lawyer stuff.
Anyway, this is all quite a tangent, but I do think this is part of why maybe law schools do not necessarily compromise too much on GPA standards for STEM kids.