<p>Very interested in the 3 year Bowdoin and 2 year Columbia program in legal studies that gives you a J.D and a B.A. Does anyone have any input on it? Know anyone who has done it? Also, how selective is the program among legal studies majors?</p>
<p>as messed up as it sounds, Harvard, Yale and Stanford each have better law schools than Columbia does, and if you’re going to Bowdoin you have a genuine chance of getting in to those, so it makes more sense to finish up your degree before applying to law school.</p>
<p>as a bowdoin grad and an HYS law student, i second tzar’s comment. suck the marrow out of your education at bowdoin and aim for the top three law schools. nothing against columbia, but i don’t see the point in rushing your undergrad degree. the law is nothing to rush into, even if you know it to be your vocation.</p>
<p>agreed, but Columbia Law School is nothing to scoff at… and it saves $50,000 of tuition to Bowdoin. How good would you say a Bowdoin student’s chances are at HYS Law?</p>
<p>if your GPA is above the 75% percentile for columbia and your LSAT is within their range, then you’re a competitive applicant to HYS. i don’t think columbia is anything to scoff at, but at the price you’ll likely pay for law school, you don’t want to curtail any opportunity. again, all this depends upon your LSAT, so best not to set up expectations that may differ from your opportunities when they arise.</p>
<p>With th strict requirements that it takes to do that progrma, you can basically get into yale or harvard so I say get through the four years. the college experience is worth it</p>