<p>ok, lol...i know that its been said time and time again that your undergrad major dosent matter so much in law school admission.</p>
<p>I plan to double major and i would like to take a second major that would help prepare me for the LSAT (or for LSAT type thinking). I was thinking maybe philosophy? Im already dead set on history.</p>
<p>I was thinkin philosophy too. I'm not sure though.</p>
<p>English. Philosophy.</p>
<p>You can help yourself a lot more by majoring in a subject that interests you, and then by doing well in that major. There is no course of study in college that will prepare you for the LSAT. If anything, I would recommend taking a class in elementary logic, but you certainly don't need to major in philosophy to reap the benefits of that class.</p>
<p>Does. Not. Matter. I would suggest studying something that you find fascinating that you would get good grades in because you liked it.</p>
<p>It's been <em>cough</em> years since I took the LSAT, but I don't think any specific coursework would have helped</p>
<p>(If you plan to practice law, there are some courses of study that would help in certain kinds of law. Just off the top of my head... engineering or a hard science for intellectual property law or business for -- you know -- corporate law.)</p>
<p>something that will give you time to study for the LSAT would be a good major!</p>
<p>My real advice is study what you gravitate towards, the rest works itself out...</p>
<p>That takes less than 8 weeks. Study something you are interested in and passionate about. Read, read, read.</p>
<p>my general advice is if you're only planning to major in a course of study that will "prepare you for the LSAT" do not do such a thing, as you would have wasted college, studying something that you wouldn't really want to, just for the sake of the lsat. that is a waste of time and your own confidence. don't let the lsat tell you "hey you, you wanna do me good, then major in this". there are so many ways to study for the lsat- you don't need a specific major. besides, having an bachelor's degree in "Business Administration" vs. "Philsophy", is much better overall; you'll look sophisticated and qualified with BA, but look convoluted, irritating, and argumentative with a bachelor's in philosohy. and you can almost get no jobs with a degree in philosophy; you'd have to go all the way to your doctorate for it. </p>
<p>don't base your undergrad major just for a stupid test. that shows you're letting something conquer and diminish you.</p>
<p>majoring in games, arguments, and reading comprehension sounds awful. i agree with everyone else, study what you like.</p>
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<p>This is absurd. Could you provide reasoning behind this or is it just the folk-psychology working through your brain-cells?</p>
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<p>So simply because a major requires a masters or a doctorate, it is inherently worse? The point of college is not to prepare students for jobs, it is to educate them. It is assumed that when corporations hire students straight from undergrad, they will provide students with the requisite training. I could just as well have everything wrong; however, it is hard to believe so when some of my friends scored jobs with Goldman-Sachs and their majors have nothing to do with the business school or the SFS.</p>
<p>Hilariously enough, it is the business students who having the reputation of being the laziest and not-so-bright students here at Georgetown. I guess you have never attended a school possessing courses more rigorous than "portfolio theory" or some other garbage.</p>
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not all philosophy majors are like nspeds. kidding!</p>
<p>Computer Science. Nothing is more logical than computer science. I doubt being a philosophy major helps but then again I am not a philosophy major. Its just an anecdotal and gut-feeling I have.</p>
<p>Rhetoricaly, nspeds has improved loads recently. He's really extremely clear now. I think that might have been the philosophy training. :)</p>
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Computer Science. Nothing is more logical than computer science. I doubt being a philosophy major helps but then again I am not a philosophy major. Its just an anecdotal and gut-feeling I have.
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<p>UHHH... there is something more logical than computer science: logic. </p>
<p>How did you miss that? Just hubris?</p>
<p>A area of Computer Science is Fuzzy Logic.</p>
<p>philosophy is of course not all about logic, and neither is computer science. the two majors at my school both require only one course that deals explicitly with logical truth, truth tables, etc. the other courses essentially involve or use logical abilities, but so do a lot of other good things.</p>
<p>Sreis,</p>
<p>I never meant to imply that, though, as you may already know, I do think philosophy should be all about logic:D</p>
<p>I should note that some departments offer up to six courses in logic, with extensions being offered in the mathematics department. There is intro, predicate or symbolic, incompleteness, completeness, set theory, modal, metatheory, and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>that reminds me of an article about a computer science graduate student who on the first day of class saw his professor use up 4 whole blackboards to prove that "if you turn on the light switch, the lights will turn on." in any event, i do believe that philosophy logic courses are much more friendly to outsiders, if anyone is interested in taking a logic course. if you have a choice, you will most likely get much more out of the philosophy one.</p>