<p>I'm sorry for asking about this, for I'm sure some other poor lost undergraduate student asked something similar before.</p>
<p>Would Religious Studies Major be acceptable for law school? I've read through some posts on the forums, and I've got the general idea of how law schools care more about your LSAT score than what your major is; and the difficulty of your major does not really count?</p>
<p>Would Religious Studies be pushing it?</p>
<p>I sort of want to get into Intellectual Property, but I'm not sure if it's too late or what since I'm already at the end of my Sophomore year... thinking about changing my major 'cause the one I switched to just isn't cutting it for me. Religious Studies sort of fits perfectly into what I'd like to study but I don't know...</p>
<p>If anyone could shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it! ;)</p>
<p>From what I know, the two most important factors are your GPA and LSAT. I don’t think they’d make a big deal about it, I know a couple of world religion majors that attend Law School. However, Law Schools would rather have a 3.6 Chemical Engineering major rather than a 4.0 Religious Studies major.</p>
<p>Hmm…so majors do matter in a sense? :[</p>
<p>If post #2 was right they would. But I think it’s wrong.</p>
<p>I think someone who is knowledgeable about majors and law school should make a sticky thread covering the subject. Maybe a list of whcih majors are “good” for law school and which ones are frowned upon.</p>
<p>All the normal ones are fine. Just avoid the vocationals and you’re fine.</p>
<p>Philosophy/Theology majors are among the highest scorers on the LSAT.[Legal</a> Blog Watch](<a href=“Legal Blog Watch”>Legal Blog Watch)
I’d bet, though, that it’s the philosophy majors who account for the high scores.</p>
<p>Anyway, religious studies could be a very appropriate major for law school. There are many aspects of religion that involve legal controversies, including issues of religious freedom, church/state relations, bioethics, etc. </p>
<p>Though A broad liberal arts is the most appropriate preparation across most areas of legal studies, I don’t think the study of religion has much to add to intellectual property law. Other areas might be a more relevant background for that particular legal specialty.</p>
<p>IF you know that you want to do IP, start by reading the first sticky thread at the top </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/235271-overview-patent-intellectual-property-law.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/235271-overview-patent-intellectual-property-law.html</a></p>
<p>As the parent of a Religion major, being a religion major did not hurt my D in the process (she even did the study abroad program in her major). There are also a number of joint degree JD/MST programs at Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory, Harvard and Yale.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the responses, everyone!</p>
<p>sybbie719: that’s very reassuring to know, actually! Thank you so much! 
I hope she’s doing really well, wherever she decided to go!</p>
<p>I’m not 100% set on IP, so I’m sort of drifting around all over the place but I’ll definitely read through that thread more thoroughly ;)</p>