I want to get into law school to become a lawyer. What are some good majors to get into law school that will prepare me for the lsats? I want to do 1 major and 1 minor. What do you guys suggest my major and minor are to get into law school?
Pick an undergraduate school that is AFFORDABLE, because law school costs beaucoup bucks.
Any major you like well and can do well in is fine (though a few areas of law need or can benefit from specific undergraduate majors, like engineering or science majors for patent law). GPA and LSAT score are most important for admission, and keeping cost down is essential to keeping total debt after law school down.
Practice in reading, writing, and logic are skills that may help LSAT scores and law school studies.
Agreeing with the above: I know law students and lawyers with just about every major conceivable (including theatre). Whatever your major, you will find law school a bit less of a jolt if you take at least some classes that require rigorous analytical thinking, a lot of essay writing and lots and lots of reading. Being a strong, fast reader and practicing is the best thing you can do for the LSAT.
True story about how much law schools even notice what your major is: a very very strong applicant to a top-10 law school was wait-listed. Early in the summer she got a phone call from the law school saying that they had gone to the wait list to fill a place and were reviewing the candidates to see who to offer the space to. The person calling was extremely apologetic, saying that in the first round that they hadn’t noticed that she was a double major in physics and french, or they would have been really impressed with her GPA. In other words: they cut on GPA and LSAT. They didn’t even look at the major.
As others have said, just about any major can be good prep for law school.
However, before you really settle on law school, do some research on how bad the law market is right now.
Ok so like a major in English which I am very good at. But what should my minor be? I want to work as a corporate lawyer or a general counsel for a hospital.
I agree with @juillet. Check out the market.
Over saturated market of law school grads with hundreds of thousands in debt.
First, check out the state of the law job market as mentioned above.
In terms of general usefulness in the practice of those types of law, consider additional course work in math or philosophy courses with proofs (to practice logic skills), social studies (economics, sociology, psychology, etc.), statistics, science, business, and courses where you may look at something from someone else’s point of view. I.e. a well rounded liberal arts education.