Classics: best pre-law major? Forum

[Luke_Lawyer19]

What do you guy's think about the claim that Classics is the most advantageous pre-law major?

Does the claim stand or does it fall?

[IAFG]

The best pre-law major is electrical engineering.

[Luke_Lawyer19]

How so?

[A. Nony Mouse]

Who has made this claim?

[IAFG]

You will be the most employable.

[rad lulz]

I dunno IAFG, OCI employers asked me to read and analyze passages from Catullus on the spot and I KILLED IT

[09042014]

The best pre-law major is electrical engineering.

Computer Science. Just as in demand, but it's easier.

[Luke_Lawyer19]

Read this: http://www.princetonreview.com/majors.aspx?cip=161200

[ph14]

Economics would probably be one of the more useful ones. Maybe English too.

[IAFG]

Read this: http://www.princetonreview.com/majors.aspx?cip=161200

Knowing legal terminology is less than worthless.

[Clearly]

Whatever gives you the best security in case law doesn't work out.

[09042014]

Read this: http://www.princetonreview.com/majors.aspx?cip=161200

I dunno grammer and someone is paying me 160 thousand dollars a year to be a lawyer. Maybe the classics dood can work for the document processing firm I use.

[qwertyboard]

The one you know you will get a 4.0 GPA.

[Aristophanes]

Read this: http://www.princetonreview.com/majors.aspx?cip=161200

Looks like the relevant info comes from this article:

http://harvardmagazine.com/1998/05/forum.html

(Scroll down to "The Credentials Culture.")

Unfortunately, the article doesn't present any hard data regarding Classics majors' apparent success rates in law school.

[TheThriller]

I am a classics major so take this information for what it's worth:

If you are not 100% deadset on LS then choose a major that will at least make you somewhat employable when you graduate

If you are 100% deadset in LS then choose the easiest major possible.

Classics is neither easy nor practical.

[IAFG]

Read this: http://www.princetonreview.com/majors.aspx?cip=161200

Looks like the relevant info comes from this article:

http://harvardmagazine.com/1998/05/forum.html

(Scroll down to "The Credentials Culture.")

Unfortunately, the article doesn't present any hard data regarding Classics majors' apparent success rates in law school.

I seriously question whether it is a classics education that helps in LS or those to stick with a classics major also happen to be successful in LS.

[09042014]

You also have to account for the fact that Classics isn't usually a major at shit schools.

[shotsfired12]

They play baseball in puerto rico.

[isuperserial]

I would probably say that you should choose whichever you are either best at or most enjoy. Many times this will be the same thing. Then if your major doesn't require much writing or logic, then pick up an English or Philosophy minor to assist you with reading berks.

Ultimately, there is no correct answer to this question unless you want to go into patent law or something, in which case Engineering/Sciences x1000.

[JamMasterJ]

anything patent-bar eligible

[Scotusnerd]

anything patent-bar eligible

If I knew I was gonna end up in law school, I would have definitely gotten a degree that was patent-bar eligible.

[JamMasterJ]

anything patent-bar eligible

If I knew I was gonna end up in law school, I would have definitely gotten a degree that was patent-bar eligible.

agreed. Makes the job search a bit easier, AND the work looks really interesting.

[Tekrul]

Not really a suggestion for a major, but I took Symbolic Logic and Epistemology in the Philosophy department. They may as well have been named, "How to Kill Everyone on LSAT Day".

For the major, everyone's already given you the best advice. Take something that will get you a 4.0, or if you plan on getting WE before LS, something that will make you employable/eligible for patent bar.

[lukertin]

agreed. Makes the job search a bit easier, AND the work looks really interesting.

rofl no

[dr123]

Read this: http://www.princetonreview.com/majors.aspx?cip=161200

lolprincetonreview