Hey, everybody. I just graduated from a Mississippi community college in the Jackson area (Yep, that’s the one!). I graduated Summa Cum Laude (4.0) and with Distinguished Honors from the Honors Institute at the school. I’ll be transferring to Ole Miss in the fall on a full ride. I’m going to be a junior continuing my study in the field of Music Education. I will complete this degree (hopefully in spring of 2017), but I’m really torn between grad school for music (most likely elsewhere besides Ole Miss) or law school (perhaps at Ole Miss; perhaps elsewhere). Anything you would like to provide, I am entirely open.
@ashermitchell It’s tough to respond to this because they are two very different things. It all depends on what you want to do for a career. If you want to pursue music, the music grad program may be best. However, if you want to become a lawyer, you’ll obviously have to go the law school route. You seem ambitious, so you could always do both!
I suggest you take a couple of courses dealing with law, such as business law or criminal justice. Take a political science course. Take the history course that John Winkle used to teach called Constitutional Law. If it interests you, take the LSAT. If you do well on the LSAT and it still interests you, pursue it.
Journalism classes and writing for the school newspaper can be quite helpful for a prospective law student, in that you learn to ask all the right questions.