<p>I don’t agree that law schools prefer a liberal arts degree over a business degree. My law school classmates were all over the map when it came to majors. My good friend was in Haas and went to Harvard. My law school roommate was an engineering major from UCLA. In fact, I would argue that the more technical or analytical your major, the better you will do in law school. But at the end of the day, all that matters is that you have good scores. If you are shooting for a top 5 law school, you are going to need 3.8 minimum and a 170 or above lsat (99th percentile) to be competitive. At that level, you either have the smarts, or you don’t, plain and simple.</p>
<p>I can totally understand why philosophy has a lower gpa average. Philosophy is pure thought, in many ways. You can bs your way around poli sci, and if you’re a decent writer and you work hard and regurgitate materials, you can get a high gpa. But that doesn’t mean your smart, and your lsat scores will show that (a few months of hard preparation will not get you to the 99th percentile unless you’ve just got the smarts). In philosophy, you’ve only got your ideas to stand on. So in some ways, the gpa average in phil. is, I think, more indicative of a person’s natural smarts. And if you think you’ve got what it takes, you should go for it. It will help your reasoning abilities immensely, not only for the lsat but also for law school studies.</p>
<p>I remember my civil procedure professor stating one time that the 2 majors that historically performed the best in law school were…Math and Philosophy.</p>