Study Pre-Law and Major in Business/Finance

Hi,

I want to know if someone can study Pre-Law and major in either Business or Finance simultaneously?

Do yourself a great favor: NEVER ever say “I’m want to study Pre-Law” ever again. There is no such thing and just screams of naiveté. Practically anyone can apply to and be admitted to a Law School. The 2.0 GPA stoner in your high school can be admitted to law school. What you want is to be ready yourself as a viable candidate to legitimate law school programs. This is achieved through a high GPA and great LSAT tests. The ability to read and process tons of text and the ability to write well are extremely important.

I agree studying “pre-law” is a bad choice- there are so many other more interesting subjects and majors that will position you better for a good law school. However, to say there is no such thing, is false. There are schools that offer pre-law: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/prelaw/

Looks like CCNY has come up with a catchy new “major” to lure students. A major that is meaningless.

Also, OP, Dartmouth does not offer undergrad business. You need to look at a website before posing questions.

A college inventing catchy sounding “majors” for the course catalogue isn’t anything new. Google “forensic accounting” – hoping to snag some of the CSI-fallout? Really? SMH

No one ever objects to pre-med, but I’ll certainly agree that “pre-law” is a misbegotten thing. Having law school as a goal is fine; there are many paths to get there. One of the best clerks I ever had was a classics major. He found reading cases to be child’s play after Aristophanes and Livy in the original tongue. :slight_smile:

most schools do not offer a “pre-med major”. You major in biology, life sciences, history or whatever and take the pre-med track of courses.

That was my point. Thank you.

Dartmouth does not have a pre-med or a pre-law majors. However they do have advisers for med and law school at the Career Services Center (and you can major in virtually anything at Dartmouth and still go to med/law school).

D’s Bff was a classics major (D was a religion major), it did not hurt them in the law school process or as practicing attorneys.