please enlighten me

<p>i'll be attending princeton this fall, and i'm just looking into different types of careers.
English isn't my favorite subject (I intend to major in science), so does that mean that I'm not fit for law? Although I like reading prose passages, I'm not particularly good at complex literature stuff (indeed, i very dislike old english literature). And is LSAT mostly a test of english reading comprehension?</p>

<p>also what types of work do lawyers do if they work in a firm (work in office, go to courts, etc.?)?</p>

<p>And compared to med schools, how hard is it to get into a top law school? </p>

<p>i have no idea about lthe field of law, so informative answers would be appreciated.</p>

<p>oh, and could someone maybe post some link to a website that would inform me what the field of law is/demands?</p>

<p>relax - you are just starting college - there is no need to decide on a career path now. give yourself a chance to get to college and see what interests you. there are more careers for smart kids than just law or medicine.</p>

<p>Is your interest in law sincere? I'm just asking because if it is not, save yourself the trouble, really.</p>

<p>my INTEREST is sincere, but I don't know anything about law.</p>

<p>I'm just trying to get a feel of different fields, and I thought a good way of doing it was asking about it.</p>

<p>how can you have a sincere interest in something that you know nothing about?</p>

<p>i see so many kids who are bright who therefore assume that they should consider law or medicine because that's what people tell them to or because they know those are fields for smart kids to go in to. </p>

<p>i honestly can't figure out from your posting why else you would be considering law. there are so many things out there that you probably aren't even aware of yet - let college be the experience it should be - opening you to possibilities you may not now know about.</p>

<p>but if you still want to know more about what it is like to be a lawyer - read this thread that ran in the parents forum a year ago - </p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78046%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78046&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>it will give you a good sense of the things people like and dislike about the practice of law and the different types of practices.</p>

<p>unbelievablem, I agree with you. The advice I would give young people (and their parents) is to explore the options upfront. Take a year between high school and college and work. Take 5 or 6 years to complete your undergraduate, while working. Make good grades. Take a few years after that and work and take a few classes on the side in things that might interest you and take old people to lunch to ask them about what they do. If at this point there is some specialized education you want, then go for it; you will still have a good 40 years to make something of yourself. Do all of this and keep asking the questions you are asking now, all the while.</p>

<p>especially these days, when college admissions are being seen as increasingly competitive, i think sometimes students go thru that process and think they need to immediately know what goal they are striving for next -- sometimes you can focus so much on where you think you want to be heading that you can forget the value of the journey.</p>

<p>Exactly. The main cause of having to know is putting artificial time and effort constraints on the process.</p>

<p>but then there's the other side.
my harvard interviewer said his only advice would be to go into college knowing what kind of stuff I want to do, rather than exploring for 2-3 years because while the exploration process is fun, it does take away some of the opportunities that one could've seized earlier.</p>

<p>o and thanks for the link. it's helping a lot.</p>

<p>"but then there's the other side. my harvard interviewer said his only advice would be to go into college knowing what kind of stuff I want to do, rather than exploring for 2-3 years because while the exploration process is fun, it does take away some of the opportunities that one could've seized earlier."</p>

<p>I would rather wait instead of waking up one day during junior or senior year saying, "what have I gotten myself into?"</p>

<p>your harvard interviewer's statement is one man's opinion - was this an alumni interview? if so, consider the source. perhaps he was successful in life knowing what he wanted from the start - that doesn't mean his advise is the gospel.</p>

<p>DePaulBlueDemon, you are a wise person. You can also wake up after a masters degree and four years of career and realize you should have done some more exploration early on. </p>

<p>This is where I find myself now. Although rebuilding an education and career over the next several years will be tough, I’m going to try to follow my own advise. It sure beats doing something I really don’t like for the next 40 years. My point is, there is no need to race down one road and see if it is a dead end or not. Don’t let your education alone teach you what you want to do; it can’t. Don’t depend on a university counselor to reveal the best career path, unless it is a university counselor you want to be. I believe the better path is to get out there and work some, even work a lot, even at expense of holding to the normal time frame to get an education. Get far enough to see the road signs on as many roads as you can.</p>