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Does not matter where you transferred from; complete your bachelor's, apply to law school if you want.
As for if you want the polysci; if so, make sure you stack it with a ton of statistic classes, makes your job prospects better. Plan on going to grad school but do great in college and focus on the few grad schools that are the top in your area of interest.
Internships are good, but only certain ones are worth a darn, and those along with lessor ones will have many applicants, and are often more difficult to get than a job.
Try to get into a top polysci university also, some agencies like the State Department get all geeky over grads from Georgetown and GW for example, or intel agencies for grad programs from Tufts and and Denver. For the private sector, many top companies only recruit from select universities as well.
Nothing that you wouldn't be able to do with a minor's in the field. I knew a couple of kids who took political science classes just because "there were girls there."
The fact that you're asking this question is essentially good reason for you to not major in it. Political science, like all other academic degrees (which is almost all of them), is not a terminal degree. It is designed primarily for people who want to eventually become academic researchers and publish papers in political science. If you have no interest in getting a PhD in political science or going to professional school, then don't major in it. It's really that simple.
Degrees in the liberal arts, social sciences, biological/medical sciences, and natural/mathematical sciences were never meant to make someone more employable but rather are the first steps to becoming an academic. If you don't want an abstract education but job training, either go to community college or major in engineering.
I'm going to say that just about every social science requires at least a masters degree in order to have a decent chance at a career. This includes economics. As a matter of fact, recent graduates with just a bachelors in economics have a high unemployment rate. It's higher than psychology and sociology and almost as high as political science. They also have one of the highest underemployment rates. If you look at the Georgetown study, you'll see that the unemployment rates for the social sciences drop substantially once people complete a graduate degree. https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/9t0p5tm0qhejyy8t8hub
The same is largely true in the sciences as well. Only graduates I see that consistently do well are engineering graduates, which is no surprise seeing as it is an actual profession. Biology graduates face massive unemployment, chemistry graduates are currently in a race to the bottom for temp work that is starting to pay close to the minimum wage, and physics graduates often find that employers do not want a jack-of-all-trades and are essentially unemployable as a result.
What can someone do with a B.S degree majoring in Political Science and minoring in something like Journalism or Economics?
If you get a high enough GPA and know how to market yourself, consulting. The quality/location of the job will largely depend on the general prestige of your university.
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Well, you could always go to law school.
That's what I did.
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