Choose the Right College Major for Law School

Graduate School Law School
1

"Conventional wisdom is that career-oriented college majors in fields like business or law enforcement are more marketable and useful than liberal arts majors. But that’s not necessarily true if you’re planning to attend law school.

Law school applicants from certain difficult liberal arts disciplines like mathematics and linguistics tend to achieve stellar LSAT scores and are accepted to law school at a much higher rate than the bulk of their peers with preprofessional majors, where average LSAT scores are lower, according to Law School Admission Council statistics." …

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2017-12-14/choose-the-right-college-major-for-law-school

2

correlation don’t equal causation, Dave, as any AP Stats student knows.

Any biz student at say, Wharton, or Cornell or MIT, can easily ace the LSAT. And the simple reason is that all such students are excellent test takers by definition.

Those that go into law enforcement don’t have the same testing requirements…