<p>What are some good feeder schools for law and what are some good subjects to study in college that might help admission chances?</p>
<p>Good feeders? The Ivies. Stanford. Duke. Northwestern. The elite LAC's. Georgetown. </p>
<p>Good subjects to study? Whatever you find to be easy and whatever is unlikely to give you bad grades. Many of the humanities fits the bill. Some of the social sciences like sociology, psychology, or poli-sci also work nicely. As long as you do the work, it's very unlikely that you'll get a truly bad grade in any of those fields. Contrast that with an extremely difficult field of study like physics where you can work like a dog and still get an F.</p>
<p>well the school I attend (UCLA) sends a lot of kids to IVIES. TO tell you the truth, the top 25 colleges in the nation plus the top LACs are feeders into law school without a doubt</p>
<p>Yeah, that sounds right but I noticed that you forgot UChicago. The key (rather suprisingly) is doing very well academically at the school and on the LSATs.</p>
<p>I deliberately omitted Chicago just like I deliberately omitted MIT and Caltech. The truth is that these are difficult schools in which to get high grades, and, sadly, law schools want to see high grades, with relatively little regard for how you get them. In other words, for the purposes of law schools admissions, getting an easy A is much better than getting a hard-won C. </p>
<p>That's not to say that you can't get into a top law school from one of these schools. Many do. It's just harder to do so. </p>
<p>This topic has been discussed numerous times in CC. I would suggest you go back through all the previous threads and read all the arguments so I don't have to repeat them.</p>
<p>too often people jump to the conclusion that if a school sends a lot of kids to top law schools, it means that that school is a good path to a top law school.
you have to ask a follow up question. of the people who entered that college hoping to go to a top law school, how many of THOSE kids ended up attending a top law school.
a lot of the supposed "feeder" schools are top schools, so they will have a lot of smart kids who end up at top law schools. BUT they probably also have a lot of kids who thought they were the best and brightest until they were at a school full of the best and brightest.
you can't really draw any conclusions unless you know something about the kids who don't make it from those schools.</p>
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<p>you honestly think its better to just do an easy major and take the easy way out? seems like colleges would know better than to judge based on gpa, but then again, we've discussed this before, and yeah theres the whole US news ranking thing...</p>
<p>I am not disputing that it is a tough school to get a high GPA in, but I still think it deserves to fall under the category of a feeder school given its reputation in law schools. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>well i just think the goal of the post (adressing the original question) was to find the easiest way to get into law school, since technically, you can go to any school and do any major, as long as you take the LSAT to be considered for admission</p>
<p>I understand what your saying, but I didn't get the impression wanted schools to get into law school without working hard. I am just saying that if he is willing to put in hard work, Chicago is right up there. If not, by all means eliminate it from the search.</p>
<p>to be truthful, no one can get into law school w/o working hard, that's a given...it's just that some paths to law school are easier than others, and some people feel like going to schools like MIT, caltech, chicago, berkeley, etc puts them at a disadvantage since the gpa's are supposedly deflated</p>
<p>Yes, thats my fault I misspoke. But I figured it is still important to throw those schools out there when people are asking for feeder schools, because I really think they are. If the person decides the rigor of Chicago is not for them, then thats fine, but why not give people all options?</p>
<p>also Chicago does surprisingly well given its grade deflation</p>
<p>remember feeder schools are subject to the correlation/causation problem just like anything else. </p>
<p>also, law schools and other admissions practices depend of course on appearances by necessity, and so you should not build your life around a system that is obviously flawed to this degree. when you work in a real job and have to solve real problems, people are obviously going to see how prepared, smart, or apt you <em>really</em> are. since you actually come into contact with these people, these are the ones that matter. also if you plan to endeavor on something that is, oh no, more important than getting into law school, say maybe starting your own business or raising your kids, you might begin to wonder what would have happened if you really made the most of out your undergraduate career. </p>
<p>your life is meant to be lived by you, and only incidentally judged by a committee who has admittedly very weak tools to gauge your ability. IMO you'd be a massive tool to bow down to these exploitation-of-the-system tactics. but greybeard can say all of this much better than i can:</p>
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I wouldn't make the decision of what college to attend based on what some law school admissions committee might think some day. Select the college that's the best fit for you (intellectually, financially, geographically, socially, religiously - whatever factors combine to make a good fit in your estimation), then matriculate and give it the old college try. Explore your interests. Read broadly and deeply. Give your studies the serious effort they deserve. Lead an examined life. Then, if you believe your interests and aptitudes are pointing you toward the practice of law, apply to law school with an untroubled conscience.
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<p>nothing wrong w/ that i suppose</p>
<p>Just go to a decent school. It might hurt your chances if you go to some fourth-tier school that nobody has ever heard of, but other than that, it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>Then again, no one was ever questioning any of that, and I'm sure that no one would choose a school soley because they have good law school placement, that's unheard of. Most of the people who use CC are aiming for top schools, all of which will have top law school placement, simply because, well I think its obvious. What I'm trying to say is, I doubt the poster had the intention of basing his/her entire life around law school, so I'd assume that he/she would know enough to pick the school that is right for him/her, not the one that will get he/she into law school (which btw, still leaves open the door, since there's a ton of schools that "feed" into t14 law schools).</p>