<p>You really can major in anything. My mom, who is a rather successful lawyer majored in Latin and Greek in college. She went to Georgetown Law.</p>
<p>Here's the admission stats for Berkeley prelaws</p>
<p><a href="http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm%5B/url%5D">http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm</a></p>
<p>Note the crazy stats required to get into Stanford!!! It's harder to get in than Harvard.</p>
<p>Well come on.... Stanford has a much better rep than Berkeley in the law department.... not minding that the belated William H. Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor both graduated from Stanford Law School.</p>
<p>As a random note, the Berkeley Law School is actually known as Boalt Hall.</p>
<p>Wow, I hadn't expected such great responses.</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior in high school and I'd like to stay in CA for at least undergrad studies and I'm scoping out my possibilites.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the help, everyone.</p>
<p>No one is arguing that Boalt law is better than Stanford law. What is shown in the Berkeley career center data is that, for UCB students, it's harder to get into Stanford than Harvard, GPA-wise, and nearly the same LSAT-wise. Anyway, yes Stanford has a much better reputation as a law school than Boalt, Stanford Law often being considered a top three school, but Boalt is only one slight tier below, in the top 10, near the bottom of the top ten.</p>
<p>Exactly, noone is arguing that it is better, I certainly wasn't, just making a little side note.</p>
<p>LSAT/GPA of the admits</p>
<p>UCSD
Harvard: 173.8, 3.87
Duke: 169.6, 3.61
Georgetown: 168.3, 3.60
NYU: 173.4, 3.73
Michigan: 167.2, 3.76
UCLA: 167.4, 3.64</p>
<p>Berkeley
Harvard: 171, 3.93
Duke: 170, 3.79
Georgetown: 170, 3.82
NYU: 171, 3.83
Michigan: 170, 3.84
UCLA: 168, 3.8</p>
<p>Berkeley may have more students at Harvard or whatever. However, the stats of admits from Berkeley were about the same or even slightly higher than admits from UCSD for any given law school. One would expect the admission to require higher stats from UCSD since UCB is a more prestigious school but that doesn't seem to be the case. So it looks to me going to UCB has no advantage over going to UCSD. That UCB has more students at Harvard..etc probably has more to do with more applicants from Berkeley scoring high on LSAT than with UCB's prestige. If one gets 170 on LSAT and 3.7 GPA, it probably makes no difference on admission whether he's from UCB or UCSD. The question is "where is harder to get 3.7?". I don't think going to a more prestigous school increases your LSAT score since it's more like an aptitude test (like GRE/SAT rather than MCAT).</p>
<p>The credit response is wherever you can get the highest GPA and have the most fun. All that will matter when you apply to law school will be your GPA and your LSAT. HTH.</p>
<p>I have to agree with like everyone UC Berkerly is the best for pre-law.. i no that this is sorta off topic, but my grandpa went there for pre-law and he said that he loved it... now i no that schools back in like the 50's are different than they are today... but i dunno if this will help. and yeah...</p>
<p>There's no such thing as "pre-law." HTH.</p>
<p>What exactly was your comment about, then?</p>
<p>Don't let this drag on please, as I stated twice before, it was a side-note.......</p>