<p>hi, anyone want to help out? I'm soon gonna be a senior so I'm just working on narrowing down my list. I'm hoping to attend law school (hopefully Columbia or Harvard) and focus on international law or human rights. I'm probably going to major in either IR or poli science with maybe a minor in economics.</p>
<p>So, putting all these things together which schools on my list would give me the best pre-law experience in terms of grad school placement, courses, advising, internship/study abroad oppurtunities/quality of professors and etc?</p>
<p>Here's my list:</p>
<p>-U Chicago
-Brown
-Amherst
-Bowdoin
-Tufts
-Claremont McKenna
-Dartmouth
-Emory
-George Washington
-Georgetown
-American
-U Virginia
-U Texas
-UNC-Chapel Hill</p>
<p>All of those schools would be very good. Tufts/Georgetown are known for IR, but you can't go wrong with any school on that list. (provided you do well while at that school.)</p>
<p>What is pre law? You can study absolutely anything and go to law school. Is your question which are the best feeders to top law schools? The higher ranked the college, the better chance at a top law school. Now that can just be because the same people who have the grades and SATs to get into top colleges have the grades and LSATs to get into top law schools, but if you look at a class at H Law School, ivies and other very top colleges are disproportionately represented.</p>
<p>Dartmouth
U Chicago
Georgetown
Brown
Amherst
Emory
Bowdoin
U Virginia
Claremont McKenna
Tufts
UNC-Chapel Hill
George Washington
U Texas
American</p>
<p>I'll elaborate on Suze's advice; for all intents and purposes, THERE IS NO PRE-LAW MAJOR!!!</p>
<p>Sure, many colleges offer it, but as Suze said there are various majors and backgrounds among law school applicants. For example, Columbia did not offer a pre-law major when I was an undergrad. And I knew the Columbia Law dean of admissions quite well and he frequently admonished applicants that Columbia Law sought a quite broad freshman class, in terms of academic background.</p>
<p>You'd be better served by taking an undergraduate class from a professor (and do well) who has a reputation for writing recommendations for successful elite law school applicants.</p>
<p>Pre-law doesn't mean anything, but in terms of overall graduate placement/ undergraduate attention/ undergad opportunities I would list these as follows:</p>
<p>-Dartmouth/ Amherst/ Brown
-Chicago/ Georgetown
-Bowdoin/ Tufts/ Emory/ UVA/ UNC
-Claremont McKenna/ George Washington/ Texas/ American</p>
<p>Hard to trim the list without knowing your stats. IF you can get into category one that is perfect, but those schools are extremely selective.</p>
<p>Get a high GPA and score well on the law boards and you'll get into a good law school. And, btw, unless you want to get into an elite law firm (where you and the other associates will be chained to your desk, make a large salary you wouldn't have time to spend, and will be unlikely to make partner) in certain eastern or western cities you might be better off going to your state university and your state university law school. That's where you'll make the contacts that will be of benefit to you in the long run.</p>
<p>No dittogal88, you apparently misunderstood me!</p>
<p>Some of the elite law schools are tired if not downright cynical about applicants with the stereotypical political science background, including applicants who were legislative pages or the like. Among friends of mine who attended "so-called elite" law schools, there were folks who majored in Creative Writing, Biology, Mathematics, Anthropology and History.</p>