Majoring in your native language...

Graduate School Law School
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<p>My university offers a major in my native language. It consists of literature, film, and translation courses. About half of the classes are conducted in English.</p>

<p>Here are the advantages and disadvantages of this major, at least as far as I see them:</p>

<p>Pros:
- I can graduate in only a year; other majors that interest me would require at least a year and a half of classes. I'm really interested in graduating as soon as possible because I already lost a lot of time by changing my major several times and studying part-time during some semesters.
- I will probably get all A's. I have already taken three classes for the major, and received the top marks every time. This would booster my overall GPA, which has already suffered along the way here and there.
- I know all of the professors. Two of them would surely write me excellent letters of recommendation, if necessary.</p>

<p>Cons:
- Law schools, if I ever decide to apply there, might think that I chose the easiest way out. But don't they care mostly about numbers?</p>

<p>What do you guys think? Does anyone have any experience with this?</p>

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<p>Law schools only care about your numbers. So long as you get a 4.0, even if it’s in basket weaving, they’ll be happy with you.</p>

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<p>@Romulus:</p>

<p>My Father told me that when he was in College that one of the most favored majors was “Underwater Basket Weaving”</p>

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<p>I feel that underwater basket weaving would be difficult…</p>

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<p>I feel like that’s just a big waste of money and lazy. If I were on the admission committee, I would investigate the curriculum to see how language vs literature intensive it was. If the focus were on the former, I would ding you without a second thought, but if the focus were on the later, I wouldn’t care.</p>

<p>It also really depends on where you’re applying. I’d imagine top law schools might care more. There’s also the question of whether or not they will even know it’s your native language?</p>

<p>In any case, I wouldn’t do this if I were you. If you plan to do anything in politics or seek a judgeship in the future, it will make you look lazy.</p>

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<p>@rankinr: is your name blatantly ethnic and immediately obviously associated with said language?</p>

<p>@destinyhelp: underwater basket weaving gets the reeds of the basket wet so that they’re more malleable and you can make the basket tighter.</p>

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<p>A full-time semester at my university costs around $2600. I don’t dorm.</p>

<p>As far as laziness goes, it’s not like I’m taking [my native language] 101. I’m just at an advantage compared to other students because I already know a lot about the subject matter.</p>

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<p>@burningbright: If (por ejemplo) I were to go and get a degree in Hispanic Literature and do scholarly study of de Cervantes Saavedra and Garc</p>