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Would it be better to study Paralegal towards my Associates Degree before I study in Constitutional Law?
I am still a senior in high school and I have been doing everything in my power to ensure that I enter a successful college. With a possible opportunity in the military in my sights, I am hoping to become a JAG. However, if that goes unsuccessfully I have to think in reality. What will my options be if I want to be a sufficient Lawyer with a good job when I graduate college?
I am unsure which route to go if this occurs and I was curious if anyone could help me out because this was mentioned to me at a college fair, but not into great detail.
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- ?Lv 75 years ago
Paralegal Law is most likely not going to count towards towards the actual Law degree (graduate school) or even for the related bachelor's degree (like say Political Science). It's most likely going to lead towards Paralegal Studies which will help you become a Paralegal, which is not the same as being a Lawyer.
See the differences here:
Paralegal - http://bitly.com/Zf2b17
Lawyer - http://bitly.com/1rb08eK
- Sam SpayedLv 75 years ago
In the United States, law school is graduate school. You need to get a bachelor's degree first.
It is quite possible that a paralegal degree is NOT a "transfer degree"; i.e. one that will substitute for the first two years of your four-year bachelor's degree. If not, you will either have to spend more time in community college or in university to get your degree.
I realize it's counter-intuitive, but law is not a great major for getting admitted to law school. It won't help you at all when you're in law school either; in my law school class, the (former) science majors tended to have an easier time than the political science or humanities majors. As long as you learn how to write logically and concisely, a degree in science is fine.
If you are a STEM major in college you will be more likely to get an ROTC scholarship, if the military is a goal of yours. You can get tuition paid in exchange for military service, plus you start as an officer. The military *might* even send you to law school in exchange for additional service (especially if they know your goal is the JAG Corps).
You can go to college and law school like normal, and then apply for the JAG Corps when you've graduated law school, but that's the most expensive way to go abut it.
But back to your question, an associate's degree in paralegal studies is great if you think you might end your education with your associate's degree, and a paralegal certificate is fine if you have bachelor's degree already and want to become a paralegal. But if law school is your goal there isn't much point to it.
