<p>I'm planning on going to law school but I'm still not quite sure on what to major in. I'm interested in sociology/philosophy. Also, I hear philosophy would help me in LSATs.</p>
<p>My biggest concern is me changing my mind about law school after majoring in sociology or philosophy. Would it still be possible to get anything else career wise other than teaching?</p>
<p>i think if you wanna go to law school.....</p>
<p>pick a major where you know for sure that interests you and you can really indulge in. law school committees will be impressed if you really applied yourself in a major whether that be philosophy, pol science, art history or whatever.</p>
<p>philosophy majors have very few options, most notably teaching like you said. sociology has bit more, but also consider psychology, as that will give you the most options of the three.</p>
<p>good luck</p>
<p>Really, you can major anything at all and go into law school. My dad's a lawyer and majored in finance, and I recently met a math major who was pre-law.</p>
<p>And know that you can take philosophy, etc., without majoring in it.</p>
<p>Ah, the old "teacher" myth. </p>
<p>I was hired right out of college by a business consulting firm with a dual-major degree in Creative Writing and Classics. Yes, it happens.</p>
<p>I wrote business plans/financing proposals and managed the company's marketing assets. I also ran their web services department during its genesis. Business is not a particularly cerebral environment - force of personality and some base level of competency will usually override/defeat book knowledge (with some exceptions - actuaries, accountants, traders and such do need to have a clue). Therefore, I personally find the idea of studying "business" as an academic discipline absolutely absurd. Consider the fact that a substantial number of successful business owners/managers/executives do not even possess a university degree...</p>
<p>Anyhow, I found the generic business world mundane, and left in short order to return to school and pursue degrees in Physics and Geology, eventually working up through an MS. I work in the energy industry today and am altogether satisfied with my decision. If all else fails, you always have other options.</p>
<p>In the past, higher education was essentially intended as an atmosphere for intellectual enrichment; today, most people apparently attend school to "get a job" (a role once filled by the classic apprenticeship), rather than to learn - or, more specifically, learn how to think. With our public school system failing miserably in that regard, it has fallen upon the universities to pick up the slack - but at that point, it's far too late for most students, and it's not as though the tier 1 research universities are particularly concerned with actually educating their undergraduates. Higher education is big business now - effectively a type of service industry - and those vocational programs are big draws.</p>
<p>Still...you will find, curiously enough, that many professional schools actually prefer students with supposedly "useless" liberal arts degrees (and other "academic" majors - e.g. Mathematics, Economics, and so forth) because those students have developed a breadth of skills that students who studied vocational majors typically do not have. Between my Classics seminars and writing workshops, I was researching and writing a miniature thesis every week while friends of mine in Business Administration were taking multiple choice scantron exams. Guess who turned out to be the more effective "self starter" (a clich</p>
<p>what about majors like drama and music? i was told they're kind of like engineering majors.</p>