<p>I'm about to enter my senior year at a LAC, where I'll finish up a major in English Lit. I already know that for personal and financial reasons I will be taking some time off from school, but eventually I do want to practice law -- environmental or some kind of international. I still have yet to take the LSAT so obviously I need that score before I can properly assess where I should apply and what my chances are for those schools. I assume that I will do decently on the LSAT; I tend to do well on standardized tests and will give test prep the attention it warrants when it is time to do so.</p>
<p>I guess this is my worry: I do know that my school is well-regarded for tough grading. I have a 3.4 and I want to be proud of myself for that. It's decent but it's not exceptional -- plenty of people in my major do better than that -- and I'm worried that that won't be good enough to get into a highly-ranked law school. I also worry because I have taken lab sciences but those grades tend to be lower than grades in humanities classes. I worry that I picked a "soft" major, but I also believe that the critical/analytic thinking and communications skills should be prized in the law field. But I'm pretty obviously not an all-arounder.</p>
<p>So this post isn't about my thrillingly enormous self-esteem problems and will be potentially relevant to other forum readers, I just wanted to ask -- can my GPA cut it, even though it's not ~stellar~ or in what people think of as a "hard" major?</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure what you are asking, but with your GPA you will be competitive at a lot of schools. With a strong LSAT, even top 14s. </p>
<p>Major makes little difference in admissions. </p>
<p>Try a site like lawschoolpredictor.com to give you an idea of what your rough chances are at schools given various LSAT scores. For example, with a 170, Cornell or Georgetown are about even shots.</p>
<p>to the OP: I’m pulling for you! I think law school adcoms will recognize the fact that English (in addition to lab science courses) are more difficult than courses in other majors.</p>
<p>Best wishes on your LSAT studying. I myself am in your situation except I am not in your year.</p>
<p>The unfortunate reality is that law school admissions generally won’t differentiate between majors/classes taken. It’s the GPA that counts in the end. That being said, a solid LSAT score (>170) will get you into several t14. I would study hard for the LSAT and re evaluate once you have a score.</p>
<p>A "hard"major is engineering; otherwise, law schools don’t care. </p>
<p>fwiw: there are only a couple of LAC’s known to grad schools with more rigorous grading: Swat and Reed. If you are somewhere else…and if the mean gpa of your college is a ~3.3/3.4: check out gradeinflation.com</p>
<p>In any event, you will also be applying to top LS’s and competing against kids from your own college who have better gpa’s.</p>