<p>I am an incoming political science major hoping to get into law school.
Any advice would be appreciated! </p>
<p>Net price at each school?</p>
<p>Remember that law school is expensive, so saving money and avoiding debt as an undergraduate can help you keep the total debt down after you do law school.</p>
<p>Law school admissions is mostly about GPA and LSAT score. See <a href=“http://lawschoolnumbers.com”>http://lawschoolnumbers.com</a> .</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus
Boston University will be around 20k and Berkeley 10k. I’m willing to work hard at Berkeley; however, I am not a genius. I’ve heard of Berkeley’s weeder classes and grade deflation and it does terrify me. I got the grades I received in high school due to studying for hours. Are the classes at Berkeley so incredibly hard that I can’t get a good GPA for law school? </p>
<p>Berkeley appears to have higher average grades than Boston University. However, this is consistent with the fact that Berkeley is generally more selective than Boston University.</p>
<p><a href=“UC-Berkeley”>http://www.gradeinflation.com/Ucberkeley.html</a>
<a href=“Boston University”>http://www.gradeinflation.com/Boston.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/”>https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/</a> can show you grade distributions for specific recent past courses at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Political science is the most common pre-law major (although only about a fifth of LSAT takers are political science majors), so you might expect some cutthroatism and grade-grubbing in that major at any school (though it is probably not as concentrated as pre-med cutthroatism and grade-grubbing is in frosh/soph level courses for biology majors that happen to be the pre-med course requirements).</p>
<p>People in the College of Science & Letters are uniform in saying that it is relatively much easier to get high GPA than in other colleges in the university (Berkeley).</p>