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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From Harvard Law's Website:

"Harvard Law School considers applications from all undergraduate majors. There are no fixed requirements with respect to the content of pre-legal education. The nature of a candidate’s college work, as well as the quality of academic performance, are reviewed in the selection process. However, in preparing for law school, a broad college education is usually preferable to one that is narrowly specialized. The Admissions Committee looks for a showing of thorough learning in a field of your choice, such as history, economics, government, philosophy, mathematics, science, literature or the classics (and many others), rather than a concentration in courses given primarily as vocational training."[/quote]

Their site used to say that outright say that they prefer curricula that deals with subjects on a theoretical level, but I don't know if they would still phrase it that way.  But their mission is not really to produce lawyers but leaders: judges, legislators, presidents of countries, business leaders (i.e., CEO), public organization presidents, intellectual thought leaders (including via film, writing, etc.) [b] This is why their law school curriculum is so heavily focused on policy and theory. [/b] It isn't really surprising that they would look down on majors like criminal justice.

I would assume other top law schools would have the same hang-up.  [/quote]

You think that law school curriculum varies from law school to law school? Lol. It really doesn't. [/quote]

1L is the same everywhere, but upper level classes vary a lot. I went to GW and our admin law offerings, especially if you consider government contracts to be admin, were more robust than other schools. [/quote]

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