<p>I am a fourth year undergraduate student who has been premed for the last 4 years. I have completed all my required courses, completed the MCAT (the exam for med school), gotten recc letters, have research experience, etc etc. In other words, I am completely prepared for the med school applications. HOWEVER, I am starting to have doubts...wanting to do law school instead of med... I have always been interested in law, ever since high school, but when I entered college, I switched to med... </p>
<p>So this is the current situation. I have not completed any courses that they "look" for. I have not taken the LSAT. I have not asked for any recc letters for law school. Am I too late to make the switch, since I do not have any polisci or business or econ related courses? I am a science heavy student working towards degrees in biology and psychology, and will be graduating this upcoming May.</p>
<p>Nope. Just take the LSAT. If you’re graduating in three months, it’s too late to apply to law school, so you’ll need to find something to do for the interim year. Coursework doesn’t particularly matter.</p>
<p>Thanks bluedevilmike. But I do not have any law related extracurricular activities…would this hinder my application, IF I do take the LSAT and decide to apply? If I do apply, I am shooting for the top tier law schools. For your ref, I have a 3.8 undergrad GPA. However, I heard that the GPA is recalculated…where can I see what my prelaw GPA would be then??</p>
<p>Your GPA will be basically identical unless (1) you have a lot of A+'s, in which case it will be a little bit higher; or (2) your school does weird things in calculating GPA.</p>
<p>At this point, just study hard for the LSAT and see how you do. Start by sitting down in a quiet room, timing yourself, and taking the free test (available on lsac.org).</p>
<p>Unlike pre-med, pre-law doesn’t really have MUST HAVE undergrad courses. Take the LSAT.</p>
<p>I was a pol-sci/history major with a journalism minor, which is a very typical pre-law program, but I knew I wanted to be a lawyer since I was 8. My H was a psych major and a music minor. We met at law school. </p>
<p>I have friends (lawyers) who majored in such areas as economics, engineering, classical languages, art history, music, theater and education. My kids’ friends who are thinking of law school have majored in economics, classics and English with a theater minor.</p>
<p>I can’t say anything about the LSAT itself because I took it over 30 years ago.</p>
<p>It is VERY important for you to know that all of the grades you have received for undergraduate courses will count, up until you receive your first degree. In other words, if you’ve taken advantage of academic reconciliation programs that “expunge” bad grades from your undergraduate GPA record, LSAC will still count these (LSAC is the organization that you send your transcripts to; it calculates your “modified” GPA). For this reason, there are quite a few applicants whose undergraduate GPAs are significantly higher than their LSAC GPAs. And law schools only care about your LSAC GPAs, because these alone factor into their rankings.</p>