<p>What are you guys looking to go to law school planning of majoring in?</p>
<p>any idea of what law schools you might want to apply to?</p>
<p>I'm considering pre-law. I'm double majoring in Peace, War, and Defense, and History and (fingers crossed) hope to minor in Arabic.</p>
<p>I'd want to stay at UNC for law school.</p>
<p>I'm considering Pre-law as well. </p>
<p>I'm going to be double majoring in Business and Economics with a minor in Computer Science.</p>
<p>My son is also pre-law. He is planning on a double major - Political Science and Economics.</p>
<p>Yep mostly Political Science as I imagined. I'm going into Political Science with Philosophy (mostly for debate and logic reasons).</p>
<p>I'm considering UNC Law, Columbia Law, Elon Law, and Duke Law...maybe even Yale. 2 "safeties" and 3 "hard schools". </p>
<p>I don't want to waste anytime in going to Law School.</p>
<p>you should apply to quite a few law schools... it's not like college where you only pick a few that you're really interested in. you just go wherever to the best school you get in (or the best school that offers a scholarship if you're looking to save mone)</p>
<p>^^^ that's pretty much how college decisions are being made nowadays.</p>
<p>Mark, you're going to apply to Elon and Yale? I know it's good to apply to a good number of law schools, but that seems kind of strange. It's like applying to both Harvard and North Carolina A&T for undergrad.</p>
<p>Yale is the most prestigious school in the country and Elon has only been accredited for like a year.</p>
<p>UNC law isn't a safety.</p>
<p>My first choice for law school is UC Berkeley. I'm still undeclared but I think I may double major in poli sci and east asian studies with a minor in ling or anthropology.</p>
<p>well it's all about the money when it comes to Elon. I really want to go to Yale Law school though..just thinking about it makes me all happy and distinguished inside.</p>
<p>OK, young barristers, my 2 cents: choose an undergraduate major you really enjoy, and which will help you hone your writing and thinking skills. These are what you need most in law school. And learn how to stay organized while covering a lot of dense material. As for choosing a school, sure, national schools are great, uber-competitive, will help you find a job anywhere, and cost an arm and a leg-maybe two. If you know where you want to live and practice, consider the public law schools in that state. The cost is much lower, and you'll be tuned in to the network for jobs and connections. So good luck to each of you. (Cloying and heathergee, already thinking law school? "Go get 'em.")</p>
<p>This topic caught my eye since I've been a legal recruiter for over 20 years. Major in what you like - almost any major will do. If you enjoy theater, major in it. It won't matter to law schools - they look at GPA and LSAT almost exclusively. The more you enjoy your major, the higher the GPA most likely. If there is a major that will cause law schools to turn up their noses, however, it is pre-law so I wouldn't automatically put that at the top of the list. Any subject matter pertaining to law that you learn in undergrad will pretty much be irrelevant in law school and law schools don't care that you have wanted to be a lawyer since you could walk. I agree with Merkur in that if you know you want to practice in North Carolina, go to UNC or maybe even Elon. If you want to go to New York, Boston, DC or other major cities, go to the best law school that will admit you. If you go to Elon, plan to graduate in the top of the class and on law review in order to have a chance at good firms.</p>
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<p>have you gotten to UNC yet? that'll be pretty tough..</p>
<p>Before you plunge too deeply into your plans to become the next Perry Mason, please allow me to stress that at some point during your undergraduate years, you should absolutely find a law firm to work/ intern at, if only for the summer.</p>
<p>Whether or not your time could be better spent building an orphanage in Guatemala (or whatever you overachieving CC'ers want to do), trust me on this: You have NO idea what the world of legal practice is like until you have thrown yourself into the heart of it. I work at a small, single-lawyer practice that works almost entirely with Hispanic clients -- no immigration issues, though, just Personal Injury and basic traffic and criminal matters. </p>
<p>The stress, the hours, the paper-shuffling, it is all so intense - and like I said, this is not a large firm, by any standards. </p>
<p>I would also really advise you to Google the following phrase: 'law school: is it really what you want' -- the first response should be a link to the Tucker Max/ Rudius Media message boards, and reading through the first few pages of advice can be very helpful as well.</p>
<p>Now, I love my job, and I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from his or her dream, but I just wanted to try and make clear that the day-to-day routines of the legal profession are rarely glamorous -- but the best way to learn if it is truly 'you' is to step right in and experience it all first hand.</p>
<p>Scuba, very good advice (really for any career possibility). My son thought he wanted law school and did internships in two different practices (one summer was corporate and one summer was more the personal cases). He decided that it wasn't for him--finance ended up calling his name.</p>
<p>Cartera, it is interesting that one is still able to enter law school from any major (which I think is a great thing, btw). Back in the day when I was in school, people entered from nursing, music, drama, even engineering. Glad to see law schools are still open to diverse student backgrounds.</p>