Which Major for Pre-Law? Philosophy, Politics, and Law major vs. Law, History, and Culture major

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Philosophy in general, and Logic in particular, can be excellent to challenge and stretch ways of thinking, which in turns is useful for the LSAT and law school in general, by making the mind more nimble, more critical, etc.
However it is not a technique designed to train for a multiple choice test that can be tricked, where direct LSAT classes can be helpful. Those classes don’t teach thinking, they teach tricks hence the sometimes opposite directions given by College Logic and LSAT prep.

Seems like there is an analogy to such things as the SAT. A student strong in high school math is likely to get a high score on the SAT math without prep or needing to use any SAT-specific tricks. But less-strong-in-high-school-math students may be helped by learning SAT-specific tricks in SAT prep. However, those SAT-specific tricks are unlikely to be useful beyond the SAT, unlike how general strength in math is likely to be useful in college math and math-using courses.