This position is consistent with repeated advice from the top law schools, from law school deans and faculty, from the Law School Admission Council, and from the Association of American Law Schools. Each U.S. law school bulletin will provide a statement on law school preparation. A student whose undergraduate education has not enlarged his or her capacity to read, write, speak, and think and to see the relationships both among ideas and between ideas and their human contexts is poorly prepared for law school and even less prepared for professional service in the law. Virtually any major within a strong general program can be the basis for a good undergraduate education if it is taught demandingly and leads to substantive mastery of a discipline. Wise students will regard their undergraduate instruction as the first fully conscious step toward a lifetime of learning.
Law school is a second step.
Together, the two should complement each other and inspire continued study and reflection, even in the midst of the most vigorous career. The fully developed lawyer knows much more than the law. The law is too multifaceted, and the human mind too adaptable, to permit such a linear approach to preparing for law school or the practice of law. Nonetheless, there are important skills and values, and significant bodies of knowledge, that can be acquired prior to law school and that will provide a sound foundation for a sophisticated legal education. Identify areas of law, i.e. bankruptcy, civil, corporate, criminal, domestic, labor, litigation, public interest, tax, that may appeal to you and elect classes that explore those areas.