<p>Hi, I'm a high school senior slowly preparing to enter college. I know this is a bit TOO early, but I've begun to worry about what I really want to do with my life. I've always been interested in American Literature and government, so I started to consider majoring in law. After reading many posts here, I noticed that taking the "Pre-law" major was greatly frowned upon. So I was wondering if it would be better if I majored in English and prepared for the LSAT, or if I double majored in Poli-Sci and English</p>
<p>Whichever you will enjoy more.</p>
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<p>If those are the only 2 choices, I would say major in just English. Since that will give you a better chance of having a high GPA and high LSAT score. Another idea is to do a little detective work when you get to college and choose a major, consistent with your academic interests, which is likely to give you a high GPA.</p>
<p>But as you say, you are a bit on the early side. You can and should probably delay these decisions a bit until you get the lay of the land. </p>
<p>JMHO</p>
<p>Plenty of people manage to double-major and prepare for (and do well on) the LSAT. Do what interests you.</p>
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<p>This is normally true, but not when pre-law is one of the options. Major in English.</p>
<p>Majoring in English should prepare you well for the reading load that you will have in law school. There is nothing inherently more difficult about law school classes than undergraduate classes. (I guess this could depend on the undergrad school, but I didn’t find it to be.) Often, it is just the bulk of material that is overwhelming. I found that, as an English major, I wasn’t nearly as overwhelmed by the reading as many of my law school classmates. I was also very prepared for the essay format and the time constraints of law school exams.</p>
<p>^^ Pre-law was not one of the options, at least in the OP.</p>
<p>My apologies; I think there might have been an edit to the post that I failed to notice on my second time through.</p>
<p>Yeah, sorry, I edited as soon as I read the posts</p>
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<p>This depends on how confident you are in your LSAT score, how much more difficult the double major will be to complete, and what law schools you are going to apply to (as more prestigious schools require substantially better stats).</p>
<p>Law schools will not view you as being a better candidate because you double majored, and generally don’t care too much about what you majored in.</p>
<p>To get into law school, you must have good college grades, come from a good college, and get a good LSAT score. To be a good lawyer, you must know how to write goodly.</p>
<p>Any college major will do for law school admission, so you should pick one that you like and that you will do goodly in. I knew people in college who signed up for 6 courses then dropped all but 4 on the drop date, dropping the ones that they thought they’d not do well in (or which required too much work). Nice game if it works goodly.</p>
<p>Go to the best college that accepts you, even if you need to work or to take out loans. The better you do in college, the better the law school that accepts you, if that’s your goal. Although there are many top law school top graduates out there who are unhappy at their top law firm jobs. Ulcers, divorces and analysis are the perks of that life course, IMHO.</p>
<p>Majoring in a pre-law type curriculum is fine for law schools so long as it involves analytical analysis as opposed to a paralegal type of study.
Double majoring can be an asset in the eyes of law school admission committes if it enhances your attractiveness to that particular law school. For example, majoring in a hard science & English may help one wishing to pursue patent law. Certain foreign languages make great second majors & many law school clinics need law students capable of communicating in more than one language.
Your analytical reasoning ability should be reflected in your LSAT score. A theatre major with a high LSAT may be more appealing than a political science or history major with the same LSAT score assuming all other qualities are relatively equal.
Simple blanket statements tantamount to a generalization are rarely correct & usually misleading in my experienced opinion (except for this one, of course). Otherwise there would be very little need for admissions officers as computers could easily make decisions based solely on LSAT, GPA, school reputation & major course of study.</p>