Undergrad route for law school?
I dont know much at all about law school, but i do want to go to graduate school (either business or law) and i'm really getting into politics lately. I dont know what to study in college, I am going to a liberal arts college and I might major in finance/econ, accounting, or political science.. although im not sure. Are those majors good for a pre-law student?
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- Good law school prep majors tend to be English, Economics, Political Science, or even hard sciences depending on what you intend on specializing in (patent law/intellectual property, general litigation, environmental law, etc.) Your major might not matter nearly as much as your grades, activity, and especially LSAT score. But back to the major, law schools typically admit people from a variety of majors ranging from art and music performance to engineering and aerospace science. **By the way, most "good" law schools don't let you work full-time. There are many night programs out there, but again...what caliber of degree do you want?
- *study business. it can be a route to law school. the nwith that degree you can work in the field of business while paying for law school
- I am currently a Legal Studies Major with a Political Science/Pre-Law Minor attending UCF. Let me assure, for law school preparation, this is the way to go. The legal studies program will give you the necessary hands-on experience to succeed in law school. You will know how to brief a case from Day 1, instead of struggling through it with your fellow students. You will know how to do legal research and writing, a major source of failing grades for 1L's. You should take classes in Contracts, Property, and Ethics--all 1L classes. The Political Science training will provide you with the theoretical component of your law school preparation. Most of your Constitutional Law and International Law classes will be through the Poli Sci Dept. Also, your classes on the workings of the Courts, Executive and Legislative branches are Poli Sci. A word of advice--DO NOT take Con Law or International Law without having completed Legal Research and Legal Writing FIRST!! Not being able to write a case brief or a legal outline has been the cause of many failing grades. And if you do not mind a brief plug for my school--UCF is currently the 4th ranked legal studies program in the nation and #1 for programs that are not attached to a law school. When law school admissions reps come to UCF, they do not come to do presentations, they come to recruit--and they bring scholarship money with them. Every time I attend a recruiting function, students from our program get singled out for private tours, meetings with key faculty, etc. Other programs exist around the country, and having met with those student (I was on the Trial Team), I believe that I have made an outstanding decision to attend UCF.
