<p>This is the scenario:</p>
<p>Bill is a junior planning to double major in poli sci and English and go on to law school. He is only two courses away from fufilling the requirements for the poli sci major. He is five courses away from fufilling the requirements for the English major. In his poli sci classes, he has achieved only a 3.2 GPA. In his English classes, he has achieved a 3.5 GPA, and feels he could maintain that GPA or even raise it with his next five English classes. </p>
<p>Here's the problem: Should he drop the poli sci major in favor of a single English major with a high GPA? Or should he keep both majors, one with a low GPA, one with a high GPA? Would law school admissions penalize him for double majoring if one of the majors was lower in GPA than the other? </p>
<p>What would you do? After all, Bill only has to take two more courses to get a whole other degree, if at a lower GPA. Is there more prestige in law school admissions if an applicant double majors, or do they care more about what GPA is achieved in the major, whether there were two or just one?</p>
<p>they care about the GPA achieved OVERALL is much more then the gpa in the major....</p>
<p>bump....................................</p>
<p>GPA is for every class you took regardless if you passed or not. Plus law schools do the GPA passed on the LSAC gpa not just your gpa from your school.</p>
<p>no law school really cares about the major GPA. law schools care about bumping up their admissions numbers, including the overall GPA of admitted students, and this means that they're going to be far more concerned with the LSAC GPA of an applicant than any other form of GPA (major GPA, non-elective GPA, etc.). and the LSAC GPA is nothing but the overall GPA slightly altered for classes retaken, P/F credits, etc. (the same thing, really).</p>
<p>i opted for two degrees in UG. from everything i could see, no law school cared that i was graduating with two BA's, though it didn't hurt to have two, either. if bill only has two more courses to take before graduating with another major or degree, i would suggest taking thenm unless for some reason he knows that he will do very poorly and will hurt his overall GPA. unless this happens, there is no way that he would be any better off by not taking the additional major or degree. law schools will not look any more or less favorably on an applicant who has achieved a 3.2 GPA in polisci classes and is a polisci major than one who has achieved a 3.2 GPA in those classes but is not a polisci major. that differences is generally negligable to law schools.</p>