Standards concerning grade averages and LSAT scores vary from school to school.
Law schools do not specify a particular undergraduate curriculum or major as preparation for a legal education. Legal study draws on many fields of knowledge in the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. Potential law students should elect courses sufficiently diverse to acquire the basic ideas and methodologies of a number of disciplines, and to develop thei skills of critical analytical thinking and effective written and oral expression. The regular course distribution requirements at Washington College, which provide the student with a broad foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, are part of the general preparation for law school. The pre-law student is urged to consider taking some of the following courses, either as part of the distribution requirement or as electives.