I have recently been thinking about what I should major in during college. I want to be a lawyer, and eventually a politician after that, and wondering what college majors would be good for those career choices. I know for sure I don’t want to do pre-law, but I have been thinking about majoring in economics. I’ve also been thinking about political science, but I’ve heard that majoring in that is a joke.
You can major in just about anything before law school. Many scientists become lawyers.
Anything with a lot of reading and writing will be very helpful. Law school requires a lot of reading and writing.
You don’t major in Pre-law, Pre-law should just be a special set of advisers.
Typical majors for law school would involve English, philosophy, political science, or economics. A few philosophy classes as well as a few speech classes or experinces will be helpful no matter what. In all cases it should be a major with lots of reading and writing.
Don’t take advice on college majors from high school students.
https://www.lsac.org/docs/default-source/data-(lsac-resources)-docs/2015-16_applicants-major.pdf shows that students taking the LSAT have a wide range of undergraduate majors.
Don’t forget the logic, which is present on the LSAT and needs to be applied to understand laws as they are written and to write laws that cover the intended situations without covering unintended situations.
^that’s where math, CS, or philosophy classes come in 
Personally, I think English is the best way to go. It’ll help prepare you for the LSAT and Law School without entirely being useless if you decide against law school. You definitely don’t want to do a STEM major unless you plan to do patent law - having a high gpa is crucial to the application process and they don’t take your major into consideration.
History, political science, public policy. Poli sci isn’t a joke — if you are interested in politics, you should find it fairly interesting.
I would like to do Political Science, but I feel Economics or Business Economics would be the best way to go, and be beneficial for future job prospects, applying to law school, and in case I change my mind. Anyone know the big differences between Economics and Business Economics, and which one is better to major in if I want to be a lawyer? Also how do I find out if I even like economics because I won’t take it until senior year and I don’t want to wait until then in case I don’t like it?
Pick a college that has Econ & Poli Sci. Then you can decide later. Take a couple classes in each area your freshman year and see what you think. You generally have until end of sophomore year to declare a major. You don’t have to know going in.
Regarding economics versus business economics, if these are at the same school, then business economics will include some course work similar to what business majors take; it may be offered at schools without an undergraduate business major.
Across different schools, economics majors vary from a liberal arts focus to a semi business focus (the latter being like business economics at schools with it), and may have varying levels of math intensity (highest is math beyond single variable calculus, moderate is single variable calculus, light is no calculus required).
If you want to do political science, then do political science. Economics isn’t necessarily better either for future job prospects or for applying to law school.
Easy. You want to be a lawyer and then a politician–then major in acting since you’ll be doing a lot of it for the rest of your career.
On a more serious note–but not necessarily more correct–avoid majors where there is a lot of absolute “yes or no” type problems or issues. Analytical reasoning is the key to doing well on the LSAT & in doing well in law school.