Major for law school?

Question

i am planning to go to the u.s for my undergrad i want to major in psychology....after that i want to attend the best law school & become a lawyer...is psychology a good major?i hv heard people say that the major doesnt matter but still...

Pre-Law is not a recognized major

Answer 1

I am an associate at an AmLaw top ten firm.

Your question is complex. Why do you want to major in psychology? If it is because you are personally interested in it, and you might do something other than go to law school, then go for it. If there's a chance you might want to go into counseling or social work, there's no reason not to major in psych. You can still get into law school -- no law school will hold a non-law related major against you when considering you for admission.

But if you know you're going to law school, and you want to major in the discipline that will be most useful to you, there's truly only one answer to your question. Major in English. Learn to read (i.e., to comprehend and analyze what you are reading). Learn to write (i.e., persuasively, objectively, technically, analytically). Assuming you know how to read and write, learn to read and write better. Concentrate on becoming the best reader and writer you can. That is what will help you as a lawyer more than anything else you might learn as a college student.

If you have an aversion to an English major, then major in philosophy. Sounds "useless" to you? Wrong. Learn to think. Learn to argue. Learn to push contradictory ideas up against each other, and evaluate them. Learn the significance of the context to that evaluation.

Do not concentrate on trying to learn substantive material that you believe will help you in law school. It won't. You will be taught all the substantive material you need while you are in law school. You don't need to understand "political science" to succeed in law school (or as a lawyer); you don't need to know a lot of "history" to succeed in law school (or as a lawyer); you don't need even need to know a lot of LAW to succeed in law school (or as a lawyer). Law school will give you what you need in those respects and, where it does not, you will gather it on your own in your practice of the law.

What you need to know before you show up at law school is how to read, write, and think. In law school, you will be taught to read, write, and think like a lawyer. You can always minor in psych.

This answer is about what you need to succeed in law school, not about what you need to gain admission. As to the latter, your major is unimportant. Approximately 90% of the admissions decision for all the top law schools is a formulaic weighted analysis of your undergraduate GPA combined with your LSAT score.

Answer 2

A lot depends on the law school. In California if you are over 25 you don't even need a BA degree, but that doesn't mean you'll find a single accredited law school that will take you.

Most lawyers get LLB degrees or take a Political Science major.

Psychology may actually be a good fundamental, but you should check with a few key law schools you might be interested in to see if they have problems with such a major.

Answer 3

If you wish to have a career as an attorney, you should major in Pre-Law, not psychology. You'll need the degree in Pre-Law to get into Law School here in the US.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

i anticipate you mean acceptable to do nicely IN regulation college, and to not get into regulation college. maximum regulation pupils/legal experts will inform you that there's no particular significant that's "acceptable" for regulation college. even nonetheless, social technological awareness majors tend to do nicely, those incorporate historic previous, english and political technological awareness. In regulation college, you would be analyzing hundreds of pages of cloth, maximum of which develop into written fifty to seventy years in the past. you will want better analyzing comprehension skills. those majors grant them. technological awareness, philosophy, engineering, and math majors do nicely with the aid of fact they could understand reasoning and good judgment. those skills are necessary in information arguments that's what lawyering is approximately. i might say to bypass bypass to a regulation college and ask the admissions counselor to grant greater tips.

Answer 5

Generally speaking, you should go for poli sci. However, I believe none of that seem to matter as longest u can maintain a good gpa and do well on ur LSAT

good luck!!!

Answer 6

it depends on what type of lawyer you want to be. If you want to be a patent lawyer, you need an engineering degree.