<p>I am considering switching to the Undergrad B school at my university (I am currently in the college of arts and sciences). </p>
<p>Is undergrad b school to law school and unheardof transition? Will adcoms at top 10 law school look down upon my application if I switch to the b school???</p>
<p>I think an undergrad background in business will be useful, particularly if I end up going to law school.</p>
<p>An input is appreciated, thanks</p>
<p>Business isn’t the most common undergraduate major among law students, but it’s hardly uncommon.</p>
<p>My wife has an undergraduate business degree from Berkeley, and a law degree from there as well.</p>
<p>I’m currently in McCombs and there are a lot of people considering law school. It’s fairly common and business brings a useful background (or so I’ve been told) especially if you think you might want to work in business sometime.</p>
<p>My dad planned to go to law school and did accounting undergrad. He ended up getting a CPA and never went back for law school. I guess there’s always the risk you’ll get caught up in a business job and the opportunity cost of law school won’t seem worth it.</p>
<p>“I guess there’s always the risk you’ll get caught up in a business job and the opportunity cost of law school won’t seem worth it.” </p>
<p>This could qualify as a benefit. Accounting is a very respectable way to make a living, and one that students often dismiss without much consideration.</p>
<p>Does anyone else have experience with/knowledge of this?? I know that the majority of law students come from a liberal arts background.</p>
<p>I was a finance undergrad major (highly ranked Big Ten program) and went to a tier 2 law school. I ended up in BIGLAW for some time and am now in-house counsel for a large company. As a general rule, law schools sincerely don’t care about what you majored in - your GPA and LSAT scores mean more than anything. There are probably hundreds of threads that state this very fact and I can’t emphasize enough that it’s entirely true. The only exception is if you want to work in intellectual property/patent law, where an engineering or hard sciences background might be required, but that’s more about jobs after you graduate from law school as opposed to getting into law school itself. </p>
<p>Personally, I was extremely happy that I majored in business, particularly since I always wanted to end up in corporate law. One major advantage is that an undergrad business degree in and of itself has value in terms of finding jobs compared to the average (i.e. not from an Ivy League-caliber school) liberal arts degree, so if you find in 2 or 3 years that you don’t want to go to law school or can’t get into one that you deem worthwhile considering the expense, you can actually use your undergrad degree. At the same time, there are a number of legal theories that are tied to economics and the very core of law school thinking is rational (if not dispassionate) thought - that actually gave people that had backgrounds in logic-based fields an advantage over those that might sound great in a coffee shop argument but have a hard time separating personal viewpoints from legal reasoning (i.e. a lot of political science and sociology majors). Regardless, if you’re interested in business, then you should absolutely major in it - the last thing that you should do is pick a major based on what you think law schools like or don’t like because it really doesn’t matter. If you want to go to law school, major in what you’re interested in because you’re probably going to get better grades studying what you like than something that you don’t care about.</p>
<p>^ I had already made up my mind that I will switch to the B-school- I just wanted in-depth, purposeful analysis based on facts to evaluate the consequences of my pre-conceived conclusion…I also go to one of CC’s top universities, and it has a prestigious liberal arts program, but I still think a business degree would be more useful. Thanks for your input, glad to hear that top grades in liberal arts are not viewed as superior to top grades in B school (though the coursework is distinctly different) from a law school adcom’s perspective. </p>
<p>Still would like to hear more concrete facts supporting frank’s claims. Anyone?</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind I want to go to a top law school-so specifically how do B-school students fair in admissions to top 10 law programs? And I would most likely practice corporate law.</p>
<p>On the Pre-Med board, there are proud students purposefully skipping the science majors even though they had an eye on the medical schools since some of the humanity majors are highly praised by the medical school Adcom. Other reason include a more relaxed curriculum and possibly a higher GPA. I am glad that suggestions haven’t been made (at least not yet) for students aiming for the business world with a Law degree in mind to skip the business UG for them to be looked upon favorably by the Law school Adcom.</p>
<p>Honestly, it doesn’t matter what you major in. I know a couple law students who were math majors. They had high enough GPA and LSAT score that they were accepted to several of the top ten law schools. You just need high GPA and LSAT score. Law school admission is not like Med school admission…</p>
<p>One option is (and this is what I’m doing) is to double major in the b school. I go to top 15 school that has a highly ranked liberal arts program and I wanted the benefit of that but also getting a business degree is I decided to go that route later.</p>