PKTS, I agree with everything you said (except the LSAT part, because I don't think it's relevant to anything). The type of thinking you have to do in law school is completely different from anything I did as an undergraduate. Plus, I don't know jack about poli-sci.
I totally agree with the "study what you like" idea. That's what did, and looking back, it ended up being the best thing in the world. I majored in English and psychology, which were things that I really enjoyed, but didn't even consider whether they would ever be useful to me in the future. Well, it turns out I made a good choice without even knowing it, and here's why --
Your whole grade for an entire semester is based upon ONE exam, which is usually an essay exam. To do well on these exams, you need to know how to write well and how to explain yourself. You also need to sort of get into the head of the professor, so not only can you say what you know, but so you can say it in exactly the way the professor wants to hear it.
That's why I personally think it's beneficial to take classes where you learn to express yourself and understand people, because these are the keys to law school success.
My friend who majored in chemistry, on the other hand, said that he thinks it actually hurt him in law school. In chemistry, he said, you get the answer to a problem, and that's that; you don't have to sit there and explain it. So he'd be taking a law school exam and would have a really hard time explaining the answer, which is what you need to do. I just thought that was interesting.
Plus, if you get good enough grades in law school, employers will be falling all over you regardless of what you did as an undergraduate. It's all about the grades, baby.
