pointless worthless useless majors! part 3
Pre-law.
Oh that's funny. Now this one is perhaps not as obvious as the others so I have to pull rank a bit as someone who can speak from experience.
Okay, so what is pre-law: it prepares you for law school. So, without law school, pre-law means nothing. In fact, if you meet someone who graduated with a degree in pre-law, then the person you are talking to is, by definition, a failure. They have failed to become lawyers. It's as simple as that.
By the way, I'm not knocking lawyers--this is about majors. A college graduate with a pre-law degree is not a lawyer at all, but something mal-formed--quasimoto.
But, you ask, weren't all lawyers pre-law at one time? There's the rub. The answer is a resounding no. Actually, law schools generally swell with the ranks of political science majors (generally considered a useless major), philosophy majors (ditto), and would you believe it, English majors. You see, law schools are looking for people who are able to think, argue, write and show signs of having some initiative. People who get pre-law degrees are simply majoring in "job"--in other words, they could care less about what they learn, they simply want a job. Their fear of failure is palpable on their personal statements. Whereas an English major is inherently a risk taker (as no one can figure out what job they are training for and, thus, believe their years in college to be a total waste)... ironic because English majors make up the LION'S SHARE of people in law school. We English Professors refer to this as "going to the dark side."
Now here is a good sign that the people who rank majors (other than myself) have no idea what they're doing. They will say that you can do nothing with a philosophy or English major, but they're wrong. I write letters of rec for these people all the time, I know where the English students are going. Pre-law is simply the reader's digest version of other real majors.
Oh that's funny. Now this one is perhaps not as obvious as the others so I have to pull rank a bit as someone who can speak from experience.
Okay, so what is pre-law: it prepares you for law school. So, without law school, pre-law means nothing. In fact, if you meet someone who graduated with a degree in pre-law, then the person you are talking to is, by definition, a failure. They have failed to become lawyers. It's as simple as that.
By the way, I'm not knocking lawyers--this is about majors. A college graduate with a pre-law degree is not a lawyer at all, but something mal-formed--quasimoto.
But, you ask, weren't all lawyers pre-law at one time? There's the rub. The answer is a resounding no. Actually, law schools generally swell with the ranks of political science majors (generally considered a useless major), philosophy majors (ditto), and would you believe it, English majors. You see, law schools are looking for people who are able to think, argue, write and show signs of having some initiative. People who get pre-law degrees are simply majoring in "job"--in other words, they could care less about what they learn, they simply want a job. Their fear of failure is palpable on their personal statements. Whereas an English major is inherently a risk taker (as no one can figure out what job they are training for and, thus, believe their years in college to be a total waste)... ironic because English majors make up the LION'S SHARE of people in law school. We English Professors refer to this as "going to the dark side."
Now here is a good sign that the people who rank majors (other than myself) have no idea what they're doing. They will say that you can do nothing with a philosophy or English major, but they're wrong. I write letters of rec for these people all the time, I know where the English students are going. Pre-law is simply the reader's digest version of other real majors.
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