What can I do as a 16 year old to prepare for law school?

Question

What can I do as a 16 year old to prepare for law school?

Answer 1

First of all, earn the best grades you can. A solid GPA in high school and a GPA above 3.5 in college will be a start.

Study logic and logical reasoning questions as these are critical in the pre-entrance exam.  

"On the LSAT, in law school, and in your law career, you will need the ability to see and understand complex reasoning. It's not enough to sense whether an argument is wrong or weak; you'll need to analyze precisely why it is so. In this manner you will find the most accurate solution. This involves an even more fundamental skill, one that's called on by nearly every Logical Reasoning question—the ability to isolate and identify the various components of any given argument."

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Answer 2

Take lots of English, Speech, Drama, and Social Studies courses. Formal Geometry and Prob/Statistics are good maths for you.

See if you can get on a debate team or a mock trial team. Meet lawyers.

Volunter to work for a lawyer or especially this fall to help register voters, campaign, etc.

Keep grades high.

Start looking at colleges with undergraduate programs that send a lot of students to law schools. Take the courses and tests that those colleges want you to have.

Join civic clubs. Look into Boy's/Girl's State, Key Club, etc. Enter speech and essay contests.

Answer 3

If there is a good debate team in your school, that would be helpful. Doing well in English and History would be beneficial. If your school has AP History and AP Government, take them. AP English would be good to encourage you to improve your writing. See if you can get a summer job in a law firm to gain more insight.  

Answer 4

1) Make sure you have very strong reading and writing skills.

2) Think about what sort of first degree you would like to have--you need to have an undergrad degree before you go into law school. It can usually be anything. Some prefer to go the political science route, but don't do that unless it really interests you and you have future plans of entering politics (you don't need poli sci to become a politician, though). A really powerful degree would be a psychology degree, but another language or anything is usually accepted.

3) Tied with 2, take any courses and/or read any books that will help prepare you for that undergrad degree. (You can do the same in preparation for your law degree, too--get out books from the library on law, take courses at school if they are offered.)

Other useful things: good typing skills (speeds up how quickly you get assignments done in), good logic skills (check your library for this--logic, critical thinking, etc.), and good public speaking skills.

Answer 5

Well, if I were you I would take a lot of social studies classes. for example like ap government and politics and also some history classes. also if your school offers business law or other classes like that maybe try those.  

Answer 6

Consider if these traits apply to you:

Core Skills and Values:

* Analytic / Problem Solving Skills

* Critical Reading

* Writing Skills

* Oral Communication / Listening Abilities

* General Research Skills

* Task Organization / Management Skills

* Public Service and Promotion of Justice

If they do, this website provides a ton of information the preparations necessary for one interested in Law School:

http://www.abanet.org/legaled/prelaw/pre...

Hope it helps, and good luck :)