Choosing best degree for getting into law school

[Empireapple]

I was told by someone once who graduated second in their law class that the most important thing to be successful in law school was to be a good reader. I agree to get a degree in what you can get the best GPA in, get great scores on the LSATs and keep up with your personal reading so you are a excellent at it. Good luck!

[bluebayou]

I was told by someone once who graduated second in their law class that the most important thing to be successful in law school was to be a good reader.

Good reading skills are necessary, but not sufficient for success in LS. (Gotta pair those reading skills with critical thinking/analysis skills to ace L1.)

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@twoinanddone

Spanish. There are a lot of law jobs where Spanish is required or desired.

Thanks. I am following that, next semester I start Spanish.

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@crankyoldman

If I’ve read your post correctly, you’ve got a long road ahead-undergraduate and then law school, so you’ll be paying-potentially-for seven years of higher ed. The Received Wisdom is to go to the best law school possible, so major in something you like so you’ll get a high GPA, which is one of two very important law school application numbers-LSAT being the other.
And you don’t want to major in CS. I’d suggest you reconsider that, but how about business as your major? With a CS background, that would be a good fallback position. And if fallback isn’t important, you can pretty much major in anything. My LS had everything from BSNs to engineers to Art History majors.
However, as pointed out above, it’s pretty tough to mix a good salary and helping people. Those two rarely go together, and if you have a ton of debt for either or both undergrad/law school, you’ll need to follow the money, if possible.
You may want to stay where you are; if you’re well paid now, why start over? There are all sorts of volunteer opportunities for CS experts in underserved communities.

Thanks for the reply, sorry took so long to reply, I thought for some reason this thread had been closed. Anyway, all my schooling is paid for, so not concerned with debt or cost. I know what you mean about helping underserved people and making good money don’t usually go together…which is actually kinda sad. A lot of reasons for starting over. But you are correct, I’m going to keep my IT stuff up as a fallback. I’m steering away from a CS degree because all of the math. And don’t really want an ‘Information Technology’ degree. I’ve looked at a lot of the programs, I would sleep walk through the whole thing. A couple of IT certs beats most of those programs.

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@ucbalumnus

@UCBUSCalum

It appears money is also important to you.

It tends to be important to law school graduates trying to figure out how to pay off their law school student loans.

https://www.lstreports.com/schools/ may help with how good the law job prospects are for various law schools.

WOW…that site is awesome! Thanks for the link!

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@Empireapple

I was told by someone once who graduated second in their law class that the most important thing to be successful in law school was to be a good reader. I agree to get a degree in what you can get the best GPA in, get great scores on the LSATs and keep up with your personal reading so you are a excellent at it. Good luck!

Actually, I have a friend that’s a lawyer. Funny he said the same thing. He told me to learn to speed read. But reading was the biggest thing he said.

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@alliea

I would consider information systems if IT is your strength. It’s very similar to computer science but it is normally offered in either the business school or the arts and science school at universities (as opposed to comp sci which is usually in the engineering school). Because of this, the math level is normally not as high, although you may still have to take some math courses.

Thanks. I have given that thought. I don’t know, I want to learn something out of college. Most of the Info Sys/Info Tech programs are lame. I would sleepwalk through most of it. A couple of the major IT certs go much further than one of those programs would. Although, some schools offer a Cybersecurity degree program. Which might be a good option…

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@coolguy40

The good news about law school is that you can major in anything. Business and technical degrees are very useful in many fields of law, but it’s not required. I had a cousin who got a degree in electrical engineering and worked for a few years before going into law school. He eventually used his degree to become a patent lawyer. As long as you have top grades and you score high on the LSAT, you’ll be fine.

Wow that is pretty awesome. Definitely motivating.