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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just major in something you find interesting and know you will get easy As in.

Key advice:[b] Go to a less rigorous college [/b]that offers great merit aid to save money, get As and focus on prepping for LSAT to get a high score, then get into a prestige law school and no one will ever care where you went to college. Grades plus LSAT matter more than your major or college. [/quote]

FWIW, most of my peers at law school who attended a more rigorous undergrad had a much easier time doing well at law school. [/quote]

Meh. It’s pure IQ and being willing to spend time understanding test taking skills that matters for LS. There is no particular preparation that matters. I took the route of less rigorous undergrad with a lot of merit aid and that worked out fine. [/quote]

PP here, and to call my undergrad "less rigorous" would be an understatement, and I graduated from a big law school class at a highly ranked law school cum laude. And I found it pretty easy.  But that doesn't change the fact that my peers who went to rigorous colleges had, for the most part, a much easier time of it than those who didn't. Were there Ivy students who struggled? Sure, and a friend who'd gone to Stanford barely made it through. And there were some students like me who'd never been challenged at all who did well easily. But [i]for the most part,[/i] high rigor = an easier time adjusting to law school. Academically speaking anyway.

And it's definitely not "pure IQ and being willing to spend time understanding test taking skills." Plenty of folks with very high IQs and excellent test taking skills who don't even make it through. [/quote]

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