College Help : Best schools in NC for Political Science?
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Poly Sci may not be the best undergrad degree if you are applying to law schools. Philosophy may well be a better choice, for the emphasis on critical thinking and logic.
Poly Sci may not be the best undergrad degree if you are applying to law schools. Philosophy may well be a better choice, for the emphasis on critical thinking and logic.
This is good advice. I'm a practicing attorney and I think philosophy and logic will help you on the LSAT but isn't really as important when practicing law. If I could go back to undergrad I would major in science or engineering. You may decide later that you don't want to go to law school but you'll have a very marketable undergrad degree if you choose science or engineering. But if you do want to go to law school a science/engineering background would be helpful, especially when applying to law schools because those are difficult majors.
To answer the original question, I would choose UNC-Chapel Hill because it's the flagship school in the UNC system. Also, I would choose it for a B.A. in political science because they have their own separate school of government, which also works with attorneys on issues such as local government law and education law. Good luck.
I have heard that Chapel Hill's law school admits relatively few Tarheel grads, so if that's where you want to go to law school, then you may want to go somewhere else for undergrad.
Overall growth definitely belongs to UNCC, perhaps poli sci department accolade belongs to ECU.
Fastest growth may or may not have anything to do with how good the program is. Quantity =/= quality. Actually, larger programs probably have more auditorium-sized classrooms, TAs, etc with less individual attention.
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Poly Sci may not be the best undergrad degree if you are applying to law schools. Philosophy may well be a better choice, for the emphasis on critical thinking and logic.
I've heard that any field involving lots of reading, digesting, and writing (English, History, etc) can be good prep for pre-law but more and more having a specialization in some area (such as science, as mentioned above) along with a JD will make one decidedly more valuable to firms that work in that sort of industry.
Perhaps the OP is looking towards law as a stepping stone to Politics
This is good advice. I'm a practicing attorney and I think philosophy and logic will help you on the LSAT but isn't really as important when practicing law. If I could go back to undergrad I would major in science or engineering. You may decide later that you don't want to go to law school but you'll have a very marketable undergrad degree if you choose science or engineering. But if you do want to go to law school a science/engineering background would be helpful, especially when applying to law schools because those are difficult majors.
To answer the original question, I would choose UNC-Chapel Hill because it's the flagship school in the UNC system. Also, I would choose it for a B.A. in political science because they have their own separate school of government, which also works with attorneys on issues such as local government law and education law. Good luck.
I used to be a practicing attorney and I think English is hands down the best major for law school. Business is the second best, because so many cases will involve business issues and it's a good degree to have for running your own office.
But, if you can't effectively communicate in writing, you will make a lousy lawyer.
I'm a criminal justice major with a minor in political science at ECU. Classes have been excellent so far. Actually had two professors in my first class. One democrat and one republican. created a nice balance.
Location: Long Island via Chapel Hill NC, Go Heels?
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Not that this is needed but it would be a good idea to first rank the colleges in NC from top to bottom so you know where you're at in terms of requirements for each school.
Duke and UNC would be at the top, then Wake Forest, then Elon, then NC State, then UNC Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville, ECU, and then the rest. You're probably looking for public seeing as that is what you listed in your first post. Go to UNC Chapel Hill if possible. Best bet..
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