My daughter(rising Junior) is attending Rochester Institute of Technology and has a 3.2-3.3 GPA majoring in Physics and minoring in Math. This major and minor are some of the most difficult programs at the school, and she is the only woman Physics major for her class year. She is a freshman Physics TA. She wants to become a patent lawyer. It concerns me that her GPA might be low for law school admission even though she is taking a rigorous undergraduate major. It seems like from reading posts that undergrad majors don’t matter and that only GPA and LSAT scores are what law schools look at. Would like some advice that I could pass on to her. Thank you.
@borghugh: A 3.3 is fairly low, but with a killer LSAT (170+) she can still get into decent schools. Plus, her job prospects are much better going into IP work than other law work, which offsets the potentially poorer schools. With half her college left, however, the obvious answer to take some fluff classes and boost her GPA. Why worry over a problem when she can fix it?
In patent law, the undergrad degree can sometimes trump the law school. Many of the top firms and companies also want a graduate degree.