Applying to Law School with 3 years of undergrad

[aadele]

I am starting my first year of my Psychology degree and want to set myself up to apply for law school after 3 years.
I want to choose my courses accordingly, as I have been told that certain law schools may lean towards specific elective courses that I have chosen. Is there truth to this?

I am looking at Thompson Rivers University, Calgary, and Edmonton. 

 

[LMP]

No school cares even an iota about any elective you may take. 

[MyWifesBoyfriend]

13 hours ago, aadele said:

as I have been told that certain law schools may lean towards specific elective courses

You have not been told this by a source worth listening to.

If you REALLY want to go to law school, the best thing you can do is maximize your cGPA in undergrad. You do this by avoiding crazy professors, taking courses that interest you, and keeping your workload reasonable. 

[CroffleKing]

No one has addressed this yet: it's exceedingly rare to be accepted in without first finishing your undergrad. Yes, it's possible. But you should ask yourself honestly if you're the 1 in 1600 people or so that makes the cut with 3 years of undergrad once every couple of cycles (based on UCalgary stats.)  Then you should also consider who those people might be that they're letting in without an undergrad as exceptions at schools. Consider the possibility that maybe that tiny number of people getting in at the schools you listed without finishing undergrad are maybe people who had very strong GPAs and left undergrad for legitimate reasons like having some really significant health issues, or needing to relocate to care for family, or having an unexpected child and needing to leave school to work before they could finish and ended up with some very interesting life experience in lieu of that last year or two of undergrad and then applying to law after getting things ironed out and having some money in the bank.

If you are the person who is applying with the GPA and LSAT score to erase any hesitation an admissions committee may have about doing this in the first place, you should also still ask yourself if it's worth looking at as a total gamble or as something that might actually happen for you. The right answer by the way is to see it as a super long shot gamble even if you are someone who had really good reasons to leave undergrad early which it doesn't sound like is the case for you.

If you have some money to light on fire, maybe treat it like a test run to see what it's like going through an admissions cycle in your 3rd year but I don't think it's a good approach to take. In my view it's a smarter play to just focus on your undergrad and kill it like MWB suggested (I'm forever calling you MWB now @MyWifesBoyfriend.) If you really want to speed things up, take summer courses so you can coast in your 4th year with less classes to take and then use that extra time to treat studying for the LSAT like 2-3 courses in your first semester, write the LSAT by November or December at the latest, submit your applications during first semester so they've got everything they need once you get your LSAT score, then forget about it and finish your last semester of classes in 4th year strong and also consider what you might do for work or more school for a gap year if you don't make it your first attempt so you don't go (as) crazy from uncertainty about what you will do if it doesn't pan out while waiting for a response if you land on a wait list or it takes a bit to get an acceptance. 

To also echo: there will be people in every cohort who did science, engineering, health sciences/professions programs. You'll have a bunch of people from commerce and management backgrounds. There will also be people who did political science, sociology, criminology, history, or philosophy. Then there will be people who did a bachelor of fine arts focused on theatre or music or visual arts, and everything in between. Take whatever you want in your undergrad - just be good at it and focus hard on doing well: at the end of the day members from all of those academic background groups end up in law school, graduating law school, and then becoming lawyers.

[aadele]

I know of two successful lawyers personally that both entered law school with 3 years of undergrad, and neither had “money in the bank”. 
 

But thank you for your response I will consider this all 

6 hours ago, MyWifesBoyfriend said:

 

 

Edited May 8 by aadele
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[aadele]

Thanks @MyWifesBoyfriend ! 

[Guanaco]

Take the easiest electives possible, I loaded up on electives in my third year to get the highest cgpa possible and was accepted with only 90 credits.

the class you take or even your major will not matter