I liked what jonri had to say about college and career. The one thing I would like to add is that son needs to know that law is a business. It’s not all great thoughts and protecting peoples’ rights. In fact, most of it isn’t. It’s a business. He should think carefully about what he thinks being a lawyer is and what kind of lawyer he might want to be before he settles on law school as a goal. And, as others have noted, you can major in anything and go to law school. I went pre-med [darn that organic chemistry] to math [darn those finite dimensional vector spaces] to psych & then law school. One of my recent clerks was a classics major from Reed (my own alma mater) who started up a highly-rated restaurant in NYC before going to law school. Anything is possible.