<p>Since most undergraduates have to decide after their second year in college what area they will want to pursue after graduation, let's list the PROS and CONS of law school and grad school. Who belongs in LS and GS? Which is better overall?</p>
<p>Law school is better, overall.</p>
<p>Well what's the difference? Isn't law school just for law, while in grad school you can pursue many different things (i.e. philosophy, French, or economics... etc.)?</p>
<p>Isn't this comparing apples to oranges?</p>
<p>I'm not sure what the question is because there are so many types of grad school. I'll speak to law school though. I think that more than anything, law school fine tunes critical thinking. This makes it a good backgroung for many careers. People I went to law school with work in a wider variety of legal areas, run companies, work as bankers and just about anything you can think of.</p>
<p>The premise of this thread is wrong. The only prerequisites for law school are a bachelor's degree and an LSAT score. There's nothing compelling you to make that sort of decision after your second year, or before you graduate from college, or within ten years of when you graduate, for that matter.</p>
<p>Who should go to law school? People who want to become lawyers. That's not to say that your law school education is wasted if you don't practice law, but for most of the alternative careers people talk about for lawyers, business school is a cheaper (two years versus three), more direct route where you're more likely to make useful contacts.</p>
<p>Law school is a form of professional training. It is training you to be an attorney. </p>
<p>Graduate school, if you are referring to the PhD, is training to be a researcher in a specific field. Although not all PhDs are working at universities, the majority of them are in either lecturer or tenure-track ladder faculty positions. </p>
<p>They are, as a previous poster stated, like apples and oranges.</p>
<p>And most people do not decide what they want to do after their second year of college. Most don't until after they graduate.</p>