What do you do at a college/university (more details inside)?

Question

I have a question. Let's say that I want to be a lawyer when I grow up. So this means that I want to study law when I go to a college/university. Well, if I go to a university and I tell them I want to be a lawyer, do I JUST study law there, or do I study everything (ie: math, science, history etc.)?

Answer 1

You need to go to a college and get a bachelor's degree before you can go to law school. This takes about four years -- there you will study everything as that's part of what they call "general education." You'll need to choose a major -- many people who want to go to law school major in political science but there are also many who major in business and you can actually major in just about anything and still go to law school (as long as you do well in it)

Then, when that's through and you go on to law school, there you will indeed just study law (law school lasts 3 years by the way).

Answer 2

You will have to fulfill general requirements that will be in all sorts of different areas, but you get to choose a lot of the actual classes. Also for law, you may be able to get a pre law degree. But you have to go to an actual law school after you get the pre law degree. You may decide to get a different degree in the first place and go to law school after. For example, getting a history degree and then going to law school isn't a bad combination. Or if you want to be a patent lawyer, you may want to get a degree in engineering. The point is that in order to get a law degree, you have to attend more school beyond regular college.

Answer 3

You take pre-law classes at the university along with your general requirement classes in order to graduate. Then you take the LSAT which, I think, determines if you're prepared enough to attend four years of law school. After four years you take the bar, and you must pass it in order to practice law.