i am currently a junior transfer student with a major in political science. when i transferred schools my adviser told me that if i wanted to go to law school political science was the best major, so i signed up for a full semester of pol classes and have discovered that i really am not that interested in political science at all. so i was wondering if it wold be a bad idea to change majors or just suck it up and finish. the biggest problem that i have right now is that all of the classes that i am enrolled in are all polsci classes and i dont want to feel like i have waisted a full semester. any advise would be great, thanks
See if you can still enroll in classes this semester in other areas that are compatible with law school (many are, e.g. psychology, communications). If you are able to do that, drop the political science courses they replace before the drop deadline. When you find a law school-compatible area of study that you do like, change your major to that.
If it isn’t too late to add classes, then with the information you provided, I’d suggest dropping some and picking up other courses toward a different degree that you are more comfortable with. The thing with LS is that they don’t care what your major is, just that you have a high GPA, so you should pick a major that you think you are interested in enough, or are good at enough (preferably both) so that you will do really well in those courses and obtain the highest GPA possible for you.
As far as actual subjects go for LS preparation, I personally think you adviser failed you: it’s quite known now that Political Science major score statistically low on the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) compared to other majors. The highest scores statistically come from Philosophy, Economics, and Physics/Math majors. Notice I’m talking about the admissions test and not actual LS success, but you do need to get into a good LS before you can graduate from one.
You can major in anything and go to law school; and although certain majors do score higher on the LSAT, there’s no evidence showing that certain majors cause higher scores on the LSAT. It could potentially be that people who are more inclined to select certain majors also score higher on the LSAT and would score highly no matter wha major they chose.