How to get into Law School via home school?
Trev asked:
What are some courses required by colleges that prepare students to go to law school that I can do as a Home schooler?
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What are some courses required by colleges that prepare students to go to law school that I can do as a Home schooler?
February 4th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
In the US you have to compete an undergraduate degree at a university to be considered eligible for law school. You can study nearly any undergraduate program and still go to law school these days. Courses that are useful are composition, research, political science, US history.
February 7th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Depends on what type of law you want to specialize in, and what kind of schools you want to go to. But MOST law schools require that you have a really high GPA from a reputable university, so I very much wouldn’t recommend home schooling. To get into a good school, you should be able to demonstrate excellent writing skills via contests you’ve won and that sort of thing, not to mention having two solid recommendations (another reason I wouldn’t necessarily encourage you to do home schooling), a very high LSAT score, and it wouldn’t hurt to have won other academic merits. I’ve read that the best law school preparation is just making good grades in a challenging degree, so you can demonstrate critical thinking skills. I’ve looked into statistics on this sort of thing, and apparently schools are pretty impartial on prospectives’ bachelor degrees, but they generally don’t much like business or easy, easy majors like art.
I’m working on a double major in Electrical Engineering and Chemical Engineering with a minor in Japanese (at the University of Arizona), entering writing contests, buying LSAT preparation books and courses, and maintaining a high GPA, because I want to be an intellectual property rights lawyer, more specifically a patent lawyer, at Colombia. It all depends on what you want. There’s lots of information about this sort of thing on the internet, I suggest you read around.
February 11th, 2009 at 4:54 am
There are no required courses for law. But doing subjects that teach you how to think is recommended. Probably the two best for that is math and philosophy. As a home schooler your best be it probably some college level courses eg:
Thanks
Bill
February 14th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Unless your parents are empowered to grand bachelor’s degrees, you can’t go directly from Home School to Law School.
In the US, law is a graduate program. You have to go to a four year college first.