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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get the highest undergraduate GPA possible. Major is totally irrelevant. In fact, a Theatre major would stand out in a sea of polisci majors applying to law school 
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Major is irrelevant to law school admissions, but it can help with recruitment.  I graduated law school during the 2008 recession and those with a compelling story were more likely to get offers than those with an indecisive resume.  You still needed a good law school GPA, but there were too many of those for everyone to get a job.  It was a huge leg up to have a finance degree and to be going into securities law, a hard science or engineering degree to go into IP litigation, or an MPH to work in health law.  Even the theater majors billed themselves as trial specialists.  A generic English or Poly Sci degree was of absolutely no help.

If my kid wanted a law degree I'd encourage them to study and undergrad major that intersects with a legal area.  There are lots of options.[/quote]

classmate got a master's in chem, then went to law school and ended up in pharmaceuticals/patent law.[/quote]

Patent law is a bit of its own thing.  Requires a science degree (real science, not Poly Sci).

I had a literature degree from a well-known but not exactly prestigious school.  Grades were OK.  Got into pretty much everywhere I applied on the back of a 179 LSAT.  There is no real substitute for a high LSAT.

So, I'd recommend that your kid study what she'd like where she'd like to.  Concentrate on doing her best, taking part in activities of interest and then prepping for the LSAT as though nothing else in the world exists in the run up to the test.  [/quote]

Not only that, but so many of the Patent Lawyers I know of graduate degrees in hard science (many PhDs) and a law degree.  They are a very bright bunch.[/quote]

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