What top undergrad gives you the best chance for a top law school?

[sakky]

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I do know for fact that UNC, Notre Dame, among some others don’t require any courses for admission for masters of accounting program.

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<p>Are you sure?</p>

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The following prerequisite coursework is required by applicants to the program:
Accounting:</p>

<pre><code>Measurement and Disclosure I (Intermediate Accounting I)
Measurement and Disclosure II (Intermediate Accounting II)
Accounting for Decision Making and Control (Cost Accounting)
Audit & Assurance Services
Federal Taxation
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<p>OTHER: (Introductory Level)</p>

<pre><code>Finance
Management
Marketing
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Information Technology / Computer Science
Statistics
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<p>[Prerequisite</a> Requirements](<a href=“http://business.nd.edu/MSA/Admissions_and_Financial_Aid/Prerequisite_Requirements/]Prerequisite”>http://business.nd.edu/MSA/Admissions_and_Financial_Aid/Prerequisite_Requirements/)</p>

<p>UNC, I will grant you, does not seem to have prereqs</p>

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do think that master of accounting could indeed be the ONLY legitimate ‘Plan-B’ option for those unemployed college grads to fall back on, outside of medical/dental/pharmacy school and top 10 law school.

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<p>Actually, I’ll offer one: Learn Information Technology skills. It’s not that hard for somebody of reasonable intelligence and dedication typical of a college graduate to earn IT vendor certifications such as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE), or SAP certification. Heck, a reasonably dedicated person could probably complete all 3 certifications in just 6 months. Nor do you need much technical education. I can think of people with multiple CCIE’s (of which there are 7 flavors) who never even graduated from high school; surely a college graduate can complete at least one. </p>

<p>Nor are such vendor certifications necessary; you can learn IT skills without it. It’s not that hard to learn the LAMP skillset bundle(Linux+Apache+MySql+PHP/Perl/Python) that allowed you to build and manage a complete web-server. It’s not that hard to learn sendmail/postfix/exim (which together comprise the most widely used email servers in the world) or BIND (the most widely used DNS server in the world). It’s not that hard to learn R (one of the most widely used statistical packages in the world). To be clear, I’m not talking about learning how to develop software such as Apache or BIND. I am simply talking learning how to use it, which basically involves just reading the (admittedly long and tedious) manuals. </p>

<p>What makes the suggestions in the preceding paragraph so appealing is that every one of those cited technologies is open-source freeware. All you need is to build a practice homelab consisting of a bunch of servers. Hardware is cheap and becomes cheaper every day - you can build an excellent lab for just a few thousand dollars. That’s surely far cheaper than spending 5-figures of tuition for a MAcc.</p>