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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the pp who studied theater; I easily got into my top choice ls, and am now a tax attorney.

It doesn't matter what she majors in. The folks mentioning poli sci or history as pre-law majors are giving old info--nowadays I would avoid those majors unless she really loves one of them; people are still majoring in them thinking it will "be good for law school" so the applicant pool is flooded with them. I think that is part of what they liked about me -- my performing arts major was a bit different.

But she should pursue whatever interests her, and if that is marketing, it's fine.

What matters are grades and LSAT score, and if she can do any volunteering in the legal field that might be good too (I had volunteered a bit in the field of wrongful convictions -- the movie Dead Man Walking is what inspired me to go to law school). [/quote]

Did you study somewhere like Yale though, for Drama? I can't see anyone getting into Law from some podunk SLAC with drama. [/quote]

Nope, not Yale. My undergrad was even less competitive than "some podunk SLAC with drama." I studied theater at an open-admissions urban college. I think that helped me -- the law school I attended hadn't ever had an applicant from that school before. Also I had been working as an actress for awhile -- professional stage work, not famous-in-the-movies work. FWIW, my law school is first tier, though not at the top of the tier. I get that people on DCUM hate this, lol -- there is this (kinda desperate?) DCUM belief that there is a right way to do this stuff that involves competing like mad to get into Ivies, having the "right major" (as we see on this thread) etc. But that just isn't the case -- do what you love, be passionate about it and good at it, and the rest will follow. The other roads can lead to misery. [/quote]

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