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Originally Posted by qweds
If you want to work at a law firm before going to law school, a la moi, philosophy is one of the best degrees you could have. the other two are history and poli sci, but poli sci is lame and you'll have more use for critical thinking than for source material research in the working world.
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Hmmph. I took political science as a double major with journalism, and it really helped change the way I thought about the world, the real world. Of course several of the political science courses I took, even as an undergrad 20-odd years ago, involved data analysis (yes, with a computer and database) and field research. Pretty good stuff.
Not to speak against philosophy -- it'll certainly teach you how to argue, and give you good fodder for parties and cool closing argument quotes if you go to law school -- but it's not directly real-world stuff. If you want to learn _all_ the reasons why certain institutions exist or existed -- racial segregation, prostitution, the "war on drugs" that doesn't seem designed to actually win anything -- political science will give you a win on the answers.