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So, You Want to Go to Law School?

Top Tier Admissions

The best major and minor for law school are those that you can excel in and that facilitate your work carving out strong faculty support and mentorship. Take writing-intensive courses and consider joining the school newspaper, literary magazine, or debate team to hone your writing abilities.

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The Claremont Colleges: Harvey Mudd College

Ivy Central

Students have the option to minor in the following subject areas: • Biology Minor • Chemistry Minor • Computer Science Minor • Engineering Minor • Mathematics Minor • Physics Minor Activities Harvey Mudd College’s students have access to various kinds of clubs that are sponsored by the Associated Students of Harvey Mudd College (ASHMC).

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Best Colleges for Creative Writing in California

The Koppelman Group

As you start looking around for options, you’ll quickly learn that most colleges and universities actually don’t offer creative writing as a major, or even as a minor or concentration. Pepperdine University — Malibu, California At Pepperdine, the Creative Writing major and minor ( yes, both! ) are housed in Seaver College.

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U.S. News Rankings Delayed Amid Controversy

BestColleges

The magazine revamped its methodology after several top schools boycotted the rankings last year. Preliminary rankings showed some minor changes among the top schools. There's no apparent timetable for the revised rankings, although the magazine's rankings of other graduate programs are public. After some delay, U.S.

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U.S. News Adjusts Rankings Methodology, Emphasizes Diversity

BestColleges

The magazine will add measures related to diversity in place of factors such as class rank and alumni giving. In the process, the magazine is ditching some of the rankings criteria universities have found easy to manipulate. It's not clear how the magazine will reflect such "success" or how much weight it will carry.

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U.S. News Releases Law and Medical School Rankings After Delays, Controversy

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But following an " unprecedented number of inquiries " from university leaders during the embargo period, the magazine announced it would delay releasing final rankings by one week. News, refusing to cooperate with the magazine's data collection. Meanwhile, it removed the preliminary rankings from its website. Nonetheless, U.S.

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The Best Majors at Kenyon College

The Koppelman Group

Not many small liberal arts schools have deep foreign language programs with both majors and minors not just in the most common languages taught in the US (Spanish and French, most notably), but also in languages that are hard to learn here but that can pay massive dividends if you ever want to work overseas or with an international company.

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