<p>For undergrad, would going to a particular college grant me an advantage in law school selection. I'm considering NYU Stern, Carnegie Mellon, and USC for a finance or econ. major. Will I be fine going to any of these schools, doing well in them, and getting a good LSAT score for admission to the T14 law schools?</p>
<p>Yes, going to any of those will be totally fine.</p>
<p>Even for the t14 schools?</p>
<p>yes, even for T14 schools. here’s an example from the law school I attended: [url=<a href=“http://www.law.umich.edu/prospectivestudents/admissions/Pages/faq-charts.aspx]faq-charts[/url”>Admissions | University of Michigan Law School]faq-charts[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Higher-ranked undergrad schools tend to send more people to t14 law schools, but a lot of that is confounding variables: the types of people who go to top undergrads tend to be good at standardized tests, so get better LSAT scores on average, and tend to be interested in prestige, so pick higher-ranked schools over scholarships at lower-ranked ones. </p>
<p>If you got a good enough GPA and LSAT score from any of the schools you mentioned, you would be in the running at any law school. No one will exclude you based on having attended those schools.</p>
<p>Alright, and for these numbers, a the major doesn’t matter right? Like all the kids represented there aren’t pre law majors? Sorry if I’m asking some stupid questions, but I’m just unclear on some things. Like, the schools I’m going to for these majors are explicitly business schools.</p>
<p>The pre-law major is the one to avoid. Very few things say “lack of depth” like a pre-law major.</p>
<p>Ah, alright. I looked it up and econ. seems like a very viable option.</p>
<p>As a headhunter for lawyers, I can tell you there are very few undergrad majors that have ever been requested by my clients. Economics is, however, one of them.</p>
<p>Alright. When it comes to econ. though, does the type matter? Like I’m planning on doing a business based econ. major at a business school. Do law schools prefer that I go into a more theoretical one that you’d find outside of a business school? An example would be choosing econ in NYU’s CAS over econ in NYU stern. Or does it just not matter and both are fine?</p>
<p>I’ve heard a pre-professional degree like the one you would get at Stern is probably less desirable for law school admissions than a liberal arts economics degree simply because schools will think that you are doing Law as a last resort. With that said, if you can articulate why your business degree supplements your law school education, it could be an advantage.</p>
<p>Ah alright. Even if I can’t turn it to my advantage, would a solid gpa/good lsat along with the pre professional degree be capable of landing me a spot in a t14 school? Econ at Carnegie (the joint one b/w tepper and HSS) seems like a good idea right now, they have barely any law school placement.</p>
<p>yes get the LSAT score and GPA and your in</p>
<p>A good thing about the pre-professional degree is that you have something to fall back on if you don’t get into a T14 law school. I’ve found that getting into a T14 law school is a lot harder than undergraduates tend to think it is.</p>
<p>just wondering but what is a good pre-professional degree? in terms of what it can do for you?</p>
<p>“Even if I can’t turn it to my advantage, would a solid gpa/good lsat along with the pre professional degree be capable of landing me a spot in a t14 school?”</p>
<p>The solid GPA and LSAT score count more than anything–as long as that GPA is from a decent school. At top law schools you will find a range of UG majors, from humanities degrees to the hard sciences. Your major can have bearing on your employment prospects during and after law school, however: EE or CS for patent law, for example, or Econ with work experience for finance law, etc.</p>