<p>I want to go to law school. However, I also want to be unique and not do what everyone else is doing (poly sci, econ, public policy, etc.) I want my major to look impressive to law schools. I like chemistry, but I dont want to die in there</p>
<p>Questions:
1. How hard is the chemistry major
2. What are teh best majors for Law school?</p>
<p>1) natural sciences are always tough with the labs and all
2) poli sci, econ, and public policy, but it really doesn't matter if you do something else - as long as your GPA is high law schools don't really pay attention to major</p>
<p>for law school, you can major in anythinig you want, take anything you want, period, there are no pre-reqs. I would advise you to be an english/philosophy major or on the flip side, they like diversity, so maybe a bio/chem major would look nice.</p>
<p>That's what I was thinking. However, I am interested in public policy too. I think that would come easier for me than Chemistry. Can someone give me the rundown and comparison between these two?</p>
<p>Chemistry would be like 10 times harder, period!!</p>
<p>Law schools really dont care DMC.....Just perform well--high GPA and high LSAT. Unfortunately, law school is primarily a numbers game. Sure Chemistry is perhaps unique for a law school candidate, but it is much harder than econ, pubpoly, and polysci. If you perform poorly, law schools will not care that you were trying to be unique. As long as you are able to write and think well, you will be prepared for law school. Polysci, econ, and pubpoly are popular among law schools, because the curriculum ensures that students are able to do both of these well.</p>
<p>That being said, if you enjoy Chemistry go ahead and major in it, but do not do it for the sake of being unique. Chemistry is hard work, whether it is B.A. or B.S.</p>
<p>hahaha ok</p>
<p>Ya, I think I will probably do public policy then. It's basically international relations and how political decisions are formulated, right? That sounds interesting.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm doing Public Policy. Public Policy has several different concentrations. One of them is international policy. But yeah, it does deal greatly with formulating new policies and analyzing old policies. We'll be in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy a lot!!! It is freaking sweet.</p>
<p>Here is a link so you can get more info. <a href="http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/</a></p>
<p>majoring in chemistry while being pre-law doesn't make much sense to me. law schools probably won't care that you were trying to be unique. they want you to have high grades/scores, good essays and a very analytical mind. to be quite honest, the 'common' majors you cited do tend to make a person more analytical than a chemistry major would, if only for the amount of reading and writing you have to do. chemistry at duke is tough. i know science people who dropped it after a semester. </p>
<p>pps at duke is very interdisciplinary, so i feel it's really covering the academic bases well through its recent restructuring and major requirements in other disciplines. i don't know as much about chem, but to get the degree, it's as if you're essentially completing pre-med requirements. pre-meds QUIT pre-med all the time at duke because of how hard it is to complete those requirements successfully! why do it just to be unique? something that would be cool? a lot of pps majors (myself included) and law school applicants (myself in the future) will have graduated from college without taking a lab science class. if you enjoy chemistry- take REAL general chemistry at duke. that, if completed successfully, can look impressive.</p>
<p>actually-- if you want to study international relations, it'd be more beneficial to major in political science, as that department has an esteemed IR 'branch' and more of an IR focus than pps. pps is far more american policy based in its nature & deals more with american phenomena in the political & social realm than internationally at times.</p>
<p>Yeah, I just decided to do Economics and Philosophy. Philosophy would be fun and Econ wold be challenging yet fulfilling.</p>
<p>I hate American political history or really anything American (i.e. history, etc.). LOL It just has been too saturated. I don't really even like any American economic theorists. I only like Malthus, Ricardo, and maybe Keynes even though there theories contradict each other.</p>
<p>Im gonna declare as a chem major this coming year and its definitely not easy. Take it if you really like it. Otherwise youre just going to be miserable trying to impress no one but yourself.</p>