Is a double major beneficial?

<p>It is possible at many schools --but it is pretty pointless. Basically, you just add 45 credits after the 180 required for the original major, for each extra major.</p>

<p>I've heard of someone doing 5 (news years ago). The guy hardly slept and did volunteer work on the side, too! He took four years, i believe. <em>shrug</em></p>

<p><a href="http://www.youth.net/ysc/educnews/onemajor.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.youth.net/ysc/educnews/onemajor.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>hey justice~, are you from the hacienda hts area? just wondering cuz of the link you posted</p>

<p>Geez... I go to the beach, and all of a sudden, everyone needs me. It's like the working world, all over again. ;)</p>

<p>LFK - I think that the engineering problem is due mainly to the low grades and partially due to lack of writing & research ability. For me, double-majoring was the best academic decision I made during undergrad - it kept the "other side" of my brain alive. It (due to the major and the courses I took - heavy emphasis on dead language) wasn't great for intense writing instruction, but, as said earlier, legal writing is a beast unlike any other. Technical writing is the closest thing to it. Research - the type where you run around the library finding sources and then develop a complex thesis & argument - is great preparation for legal writing. Psychologically, liberal arts courses are good because the whole research paper thing isn't completely foreign when you start law school; you don't feel like everyone else has some sort of advantage. </p>

<p>PM or email.</p>

<p>Yes, Aries. But, the point is that it is not "necessary." Nonetheless, in some specific situations, such as yours, it can be very beneficial if done for compelling personal reasons.</p>

<p>I missed you, BTW. :D</p>

<p>The only necessary things for law school admission are a bachelor's degree and an LSAT score. :p</p>

<p>By "compelling personal reasons," you mean "masochism." ;)</p>