LS Admissions: Undergrad Courses

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Hi, currently, I am attending a liberal arts college
and with not knowing what exactly to major in or focus my education in, I decided to take a variety of courses...however, my first year I kept dropping a course and adding courses at the last minute due to my dislike for certain courses that I ended up taking only three out of the usual four courses my whole first year.</p>

<p>Although I will be able to graduate on time thanks to AP credits, I am wondering whether I should worry about it for law school (it certainly is far off! but if I need to worry, I thought I should try to remedy it as soon as possible)</p>

<p>The course load, I am rather ashamed to say, wasn't the hardest three either. I somehow ended up with an art history class and two languages this semester haha.</p>

<p>I got a special permission from one of my professors to take his senior seminar course next year so I was wondering whether I should do that? But the problem is I wanted to do something along the lines of Philosophy and Political Science (to be specific, I am interested in political theory/philosophy) so I didn't know whether I should give up a course slot for that senior seminar to make my transcript look slightly less lazy or not worry and try to finish my majors requirements.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t worry about any sort of senior seminar; I’d try to find out what you really like first! Political science or philosophy, if it interests you, are good majors for law school (as far as I know, at least).</p>

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<p>so i shouldn’t worry about having a rather lax first year and attempt to make it up for it? (I was thinking of taking five classes instead of four next year)</p>

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<p>Surprising, law schools don’t evaluate the hardness of courses taken at colleges. A 3.6 taken in an "easy " major will be better than a 3.3 or 3.4 taken in a hard science or engineering. It’s all about the GPA and LSAT.</p>

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<p>Thanks! So I will just focus on four classes that I enjoy then next semester instead of trying to make my transcript impressive.</p>

<p>And start studying for LSAT :o</p>