<p>Hello! Does anyone know of any BA/JD Joint Degree Programs in/around Tennessee, California, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, North Carolina, or South Carolina?
I'm currently a sophomore in High School and need to start looking at colleges. These are some of the states I'm looking in, and I really want the college I'll go to to have a BA/JD Joint Degree Program.
If you know of any amazing schools that have it that are in a different state, I'll look at some of them, too.</p>
<p>Here’s a list of such programs, which includes several from those states: [Accelerated</a> JD program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_JD_program]Accelerated”>Accelerated JD program - Wikipedia).</p>
<p>Although it is not in any of the states you mention, I’d put in a good word for the BA/JD program offered by my alma mater, Shimer College in Chicago, in cooperation with Chicago-Kent: [Shimer’s</a> B.A. to J.D. Program](<a href=“http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/ba-to-jd-program.cfm]Shimer’s”>http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/ba-to-jd-program.cfm). Shimer isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but it is an amazing school in many different respects; the Wikipedia article gives a good overview: [Shimer</a> College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimer_College]Shimer”>Shimer Great Books School - Wikipedia) .</p>
<p>Sorry to pop your bubble but…there are a few joint programs…well…its basically early entry into law school…BA/JD in 6 years instead of seven. You go to undergrad for 3 years and then law school for 3 years. But they are VERY restrictive and only the kids with the highest LSAT scores get in. And its frankly ill advised.</p>
<p>You are better off going to college for 4 years and experiencing life to its fullest, grow up and mature, find a major and then decide if law school is for you. Plus law is very competitive and many law schools want gravitas…work experience and maturity. </p>
<p>The vast majority of joint programs in law school are related to other graduate degrees, like MA/JD; PhD/JD; MD/JD.</p>
<p>Thanks, visviva!</p>
<p>SovereignDebt - I know what it is, thank you. And I’ve found 6 or 7 online already, just in different states. Thanks for the advice though.
Just one question - you keep bringing up maturity, but you don’t know me, so how would you know how mature I am/will be?</p>
<p>You should not, I repeat not, even think about these programs (with the exception of Columbia). If you lock yourself in, you lose negotiating leverage for merit money. Law school is almost all about prestige – the higher the better. But if you need to attend a program like Shimer for whatever personal reason, make sure that they give you plenty of money. And they will only offer you cash, if they think you have the opportunity to go elsewhere.</p>
<p>okay, thanks</p>
<p>it is not worth the time and money to go to a 3rd tier law school unless you can go very cheaply. Even the lower paying public sector jobs are getting hard to get, because of an extreme excess of law school grads. The law schools keep increasing their enrollments - there has been a dramatic increase in law school seats in the last 20 years. </p>
<p>NPR just had a report today about law schools exaggerating the starting salarlies and job prospects of their graduates. One of the tricks is they hire their own grads for temporary jobs right before the job surveys are conducted.</p>
<p>thanks for the info</p>