<p>Do law schools look at the difficulty of your undergraduate curriculum or are they more concerned with where you got your degree from and your gpa. If you were to take a bunch of easy, bogus classes, would that hurt your chance of gaining entrance into a good law school?</p>
<p>It might indirectly hurt your chances by hurting your ability to score highly on the LSAT. If you take rigorous course work and get good grades chances are you will be better prepared to take the LSAT. That aside, classwork would be a soft factor at best. If you go to a more rigorous institution and still have a high GPA that may give you a small benefit. They (law schools) are mostly concerned with your GPA and LSAT. Other factors like coursework and the college you attended play a much smaller role in your admission chances. IMO taking some harder courses is worth it because it is rewarding to see how your skills of analysis increase from the challenge of the harder courses.</p>
<p>Let me retract part of my previous statement. After colleges look at your GPA and LSAT they will also want to know a bit more about your quantitative skills. "I want to see people who are intellectually curious and ambitious , and ho have taken some courses outside their typical realm," says Penn's Meeker. Yes this is from U.S. New's Ultimate Guide to Law Schools but it does suggest that coursework does play some role after you achieve a high gpa and a high lsat. This does not mean you need to take Physics, Linear Algebra and O-Chem if you're a Poli Sci major; it simply suggests that taking a few courses to "broaden your horizons" and challenge yourself will benefit you. Remember, this is after the GPA and LSAT are factored in.</p>