Interested in some of your opinions as to the pros and cons of a psychology undergad degree as prep for Law School.
UG major doesn’t matter for law school. Biggest pro of pysch is that it usually–not always–is pretty grade inflated, so it is easier to get a high gpa.
The best prep for law school is taking courses that require a lot of reading and a lot of papers. Psych fits that bill.
Your undergraduate major will make no difference for law school.
Just make sure it’s a major u can live with if law school doesn’t happen.
Here are some suggestions for undergraduate major and course selection for pre-law students:
http://lawschoolnumbers.com/application-prep/choosing-your-major-for-prelaw
http://lawschoolnumbers.com/application-prep/making-undergraduate-courses-count-for-law-school
Totally agree. Take a major you enjoy. Just make sure you get a top-notch GPA and score high on the LSATS.
Reed College '74 [Psychology] Boalt '77 Worked for me. I actually would probably have majored in linguistics if Reed had hired a professor in that field before my senior year. Actually, maybe it helped that I was drawn to to a new (but semi-related) field while writing my thesis. Bottom line: the undergraduate major does not matter. What matters is your ability to read, comprehend, reason, and write. Psych is as good as anything else. Heck, classics is fine too.
Why do you hope to go into law? Like others have said, choose an undergrad major that can leave options if you veer from law. Right now, there’s a severe glut of mediocre lawyers – many saddled with $100Ks of debt and no future in the legal field.
^ Truth, but I read the OP as parent questioning kid’s potential major. I could be wrong.
I don’t think there are any general pros and cons. There are only pros and cons for individual students. If that is your favorite subject (as it was mine), major in it. Psych AB '99, JD '02 here.
I think any major is a good fit for law school. Most law schools provide one year of required courses and then two years where you can semi-specialize in some area. So an education major can take a number of education law courses. I agree with the comment that a courseload that requires reading and analysis is the best.
A lot of journalism students go to law school. A journalism professor told me that it makes sense since new reporting requires asking the right questions and filtering out the unrelated.
Philosophy and Rhetoric are excellent preparation for law school.
@dadmus: Any major is fine for law school. Particular majors tend to have better job prospects (CS/EE especially) but a switch from psychology is unlikely. More importantly, law school does not work out for the large majority of students. Psychology is fine, but the prospective student had better be prepared for the possibility of entering the job market purely on the strength of that degree.
Too bad that they don’t teach such critical thinking skills in J-school. 
The best “prep” from a psychology major would be As on the transcript.
The next-best “prep” would be good study skills and good research and writing skills.
I see no problem with that major if the goal is law school.
How about giving some thoughts to the next further step, goal of law school…a working lawyer.
I think psych is a cake major that cannot compare to the hard social sciences, to the extent there are any. Your GPA better be north of 3.75 to be taken seriously, and at a top school. Avoid that major, IMO, unless you intend to become a therapist.
One of the benefits of a site like this is that you get a lot of different viewpoints. One of the drawbacks is that you have no way of evaluating whether someone who posts a comment knows what s/he is talking about. I have been a member of the California bar since 1977. I majored in psychology. I was accepted to three of the top five law schools in the country (per the rankings at that time). I suggest you ignore @SeattleTW unless s/he wants to advance some facts to support his/her point of view. The apparent disapproval of social sciences in general indicates to me that s/he does not know what s/he is talking about, but feel free to draw your own conclusions.
By way of contrast, @cbreeze makes a very good point in suggesting that you think about the end result. Law is a business. It is not for everyone.
Psych is a joke and similar to sociology. I suspect your curricula consisted of magazines, journals and other secondary, pop culture sources. True to form and ever so predictable, most psych majors enjoy psychoanalyzing everyone.