<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Anthropology?
Pre-law?</p>
<p>anything else?</p>
<p>It doesn't matter.</p>
<p>No, really. Law schools care about your GPA and your LSAT scores, not your major :D</p>
<p>(Also, pre-law isnt a major)</p>
<p>anything. really. from the hard sciences to the soft sciences to the humanities to the arts.</p>
<p>would there be anything to give you a head start on law school?</p>
<p>1) even if you're majoring in the sciences, be sure to take classes that give you opportunities to write extensively and assign lots of reading</p>
<p>2) explore law with internships or any other job you can get inside law firms to be sure its what you want to do. There are lots of people out there who picked law without testing the water first. Given the 3-year and big-dollar committment, not the smartest approach.</p>
<p>My uncle is a Law Professor (was at Fordham, now at U of Missouri, went to Columbia for law school) and says that one of the best majors to do is English. It gives you alot of practice with compositions. Those kind of writing skills come in very handy in Law School.</p>
<p>I don't think it matters at all. My husband and I are both lawyers. Our majors were psychology and economics.</p>
<p>In my opinion Classics is an excellent pre-law major. Every Classics major I've ever met was very articulate and could write well.</p>
<p>Great idea to get internships or part-time work while in college in various law environments to get a feel for whether this is the profession for you. There are a whole variety of options---DA office, Public Defender, law firms, etc. </p>
<p>If you eventually decide to pursue law--talk to a few older law students/recent grads to get tips on how to do well at that particular school. A few general: read the commercial outlines for each course before/during the course and skim a few related law review articles (ideally ones written by your professors!) at some time during the course.</p>
<p>Haha, Joyce. My husband and I are both lawyers also. He was an anthropology major and I was a graphic design major. I think my graphic design classes (at Carnegie Mellon) were more helpful to me as a practicing lawyer than any of my law classes since they exposed me to a lot of problem solving.</p>
<p>The most important thing is to major in something that you enjoy and that you will do well in.</p>
<p>Classics, English, are great degrees, but I'd wonder about the practical applications if you decide not to go on to law school. My suggestion is to find a major that teaches you to think critically, that you enjoy, but that also has practical applications. You might not be feeling law in 4 yrs, and then what are you going to do with a classics degree? Sure, there's options, but make sure you are ok with them.</p>
<p>Yes. It really doesn't matter what you major in, and groovin is right---the best bet is something you like that would further a career you'd enjoy if you did not go to law school.</p>
<p>When I was in law school, some of the best students came from the hard sciences (chemistry, genetics, etc.). No one needs to major in 'pre law.'</p>
<p>Doesn't matter. My best friend at Harvard law was an art history major, my friend at Yale was an econ major. Totally irrelevant. Just go to a top LAC or grade-inflation Ivy caliber school to set yourself up well.</p>
<p>I don't neccesarily think that Classics prepares you for law school so much as the type of people who are classics majors tend to be very articulate already (self-selection)</p>
<p>History. </p>
<p>I am still a junior in high school, and I take courses/ ECs that reflect my interest in law, such as Latin and policy debate.</p>
<p>Any liberal arts major, especially the social sciences. English works well also.</p>
<p>History, economics, English, classics are classic choices.</p>
<p>English, Classics, History, Philosophy...</p>