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Finishing my last 2 years of undergrad, and am majoring in philosophy. I have 11 classes that i HAVE to take, besides that i can take whatever i want. Any suggestions on what i should take? i could prob minor in something, do minors look good to law schools? thanks in advance!

Whatever you can get A+'s in.

Don't waste your time on a minor, just take classes that you want to take that will get you good grades.

kalvano wrote:Whatever you can get A+'s in.

This. DO NOT take intro to logic unless you are good at math/puzzles/logic stuff. It will not help you with the LSAT (maybe marginally), and you will struggle to get a B+.

Moomoo2u wrote:

kalvano wrote:Whatever you can get A+'s in.

This. DO NOT take intro to logic unless you are good at math/puzzles/logic stuff. It will not help you with the LSAT (maybe marginally), and you will struggle to get a B+.

Hopefully a philosophy major could get an A in intro to logic. But I agree with not choosing classes thinking they'll help you with the LSAT.

I kind of assumed that intro to logic was required for philosopholks. Anyway, word of advice: take some combination of classes that would be (1) interesting and/or (2) useful.

Take language classes. They are fun.

Thanks for the advice, i guess ill focus mainly on classes that i feel will increase my GPA.

Moomoo2u wrote:

kalvano wrote:Whatever you can get A+'s in.

This. DO NOT take intro to logic unless you are good at math/puzzles/logic stuff. It will not help you with the LSAT (maybe marginally), and you will struggle to get a B+.

I attend a reasonably reputable school and I took intro to logic last spring. Probably the easiest class in the school... No, don't take it for LSAT prep, it won't help.

Edit: I said something too harsh, took it out.

prezidentv8 wrote:I kind of assumed that intro to logic was required for philosopholks. Anyway, word of advice: take some combination of classes that would be (1) interesting and/or (2) useful.

At most places it is. I'd assume that OP has already an intro to logic class.

I'm still a little miffed I didn't get to take Intro to Physics 3 or whatever it was I tested into while I was in undergrad. They made me retake multivariable calc, because they didn't think the one on my high school transcript "counted." So that was a free A, but I resultantly ran out of electives.

So if you could take some sort of physics course on wave mechanics, you'd be putting one of my ghosts to rest. Thanks in advance.

ahduth wrote:I'm still a little miffed I didn't get to take Intro to Physics 3 or whatever it was I tested into while I was in undergrad. They made me retake multivariable calc, because they didn't think the one on my high school transcript "counted." So that was a free A, but I resultantly ran out of electives.

So if you could take some sort of physics course on wave mechanics, you'd be putting one of my ghosts to rest. Thanks in advance.

ill work on that ^_^. i just checked out your profile, how did you only manage to get a 137 on the lsat when your GPA is that high?( i mean no offense at all, i would just assume with a 4.1 your lsat would be really high also.)

Take engineering classes and non-romance languages.

SarahKerrigan wrote:

ahduth wrote:I'm still a little miffed I didn't get to take Intro to Physics 3 or whatever it was I tested into while I was in undergrad. They made me retake multivariable calc, because they didn't think the one on my high school transcript "counted." So that was a free A, but I resultantly ran out of electives.

So if you could take some sort of physics course on wave mechanics, you'd be putting one of my ghosts to rest. Thanks in advance.

ill work on that ^_^. i just checked out your profile, how did you only manage to get a 137 on the lsat when your GPA is that high?( i mean no offense at all, i would just assume with a 4.1 your lsat would be really high also.)

Those aren't his real stats. A lot of people, for whatever reason, put joke stats into their profile.

Major in something that affords you a good chance of getting a job (accounting, hard sciences, math, engineering, etc).

Your mind could change. Do something that's in demand. Never hurts a trad to work a bit before any grad school, imo.

@resolutepear/johansantana21 i'm not talking about changing my major, my OP is about filler classes and or minoring.

SarahKerrigan wrote:@resolutepear/johansantana21 i'm not talking about changing my major, my OP is about filler classes and or minoring.

I read your OP.

My RP still stands. HTH.