<p>I'm an English major, and it's actually one of the larger humanities majors at my school.</p>
<p>
[Quote]
yesterday - take a look at this, it was published in the Journal of Economic Education and shows LSAT score/major from 1992, 1995, and 2004 and compares them. All 3 years, #1 is Math/Physics, #2 is Philosophy/Religion, and #3 is Economics.
Average</a> LSAT Scores for 29 Majors with over 400 Students Taking the Exam</p>
<p>English went from 10 to 9 to 11 - pretty good, but not top 3. I guess it's since even though one third of the test is reading comprehension, the other two thirds are logic games and logical reasoning and math/physics majors would be good at that.
[/Quote]
The most interesting thing about that one is that pre law is at the near bottom.</p>
<p>Obviously prelaw is a bad choice if you want to go law school...</p>
<p>^ Well that's because "Pre-Law" majors are just as useless as "pre-med" - Medicine is for Med School, Law is for Law School, so they prefer it if you use your Undergrad years to actually learn something, so a pre-med or pre-law degree sort of is a joke. </p>
<p>I think English is an excellent major for pre-Law students, for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>I'm an English major too.</p>
<p>So what English classes are y'all taking this semester? </p>
<p>I'm taking classes called:
Language and Humor
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Images of Masculinity in 20th Century American Literature and Film</p>
<p>Just curious to see what's offered in other English programs.</p>
<p>I was an English minor but I honestly couldn't tolerate the classes. They'd take what seemed like a genuinely interesting subject (it seemed like most of the English classes always had the most intriguing topics) and then go grammar Nazi on it, scrutinize the meaning of everything, and shred what could have been an interesting course, not to mention every paper, essay, in-class response was all graded on subjective measures.</p>
<p>I prefer the subjects where no matter how many different professors you give it to, you receive the same grade: it's either correct or it isn't.</p>
<p>^ Yep Plattsburgh I agree - i've had professors who've told me I should become a writer and they gave me A's on all my papers and read them to the class. I've had professors who thought I was okay and an average B+ student, and they refused to give A's at all. But it's not about whether it's correct or not in Writing - it's about, Is the prof in a good mood? Does he/she like you? Is it his style of writing? Once I adjust to the prof's style of writing/expectations, I usually do well though. </p>
<p>I also LOVE to read, but I don't like tying a book to a chair and beating it and sucking out it's marrow (I just made 2 literary allusions - guess who English majors? :D)</p>