Law School

Go to any law school discussion board and you'll see that there are three factors that, above all else, matter more to admissions: LSAT, GPA, and URM (underrepresented racial minority--African American, Mexican [not other Hispanic] American, and Native American).

Majors matter little unless you want a specialized interest (e.g., patent law where you'll need a science/engineering background). If you look at Yale, Harvard, and Stanford admission data, there are many coming in with humanities and social science degrees. Likewise, many law school admission prep guides say the same thing--major in something you like and shoot for at least a 4.0 (LSAC weights A+s as 4.3).

Work experience, internships, and extracurriculars are also soft merits and unless it's quite exceptional (e.g., interned at a prestigious position at a top corp or NLJ 250 firm; collegiate athlete; etc.) aren't worth pursuing for the sole purpose of putting on your law school application. You can try mock trial and similar orgs, but very very few law jobs will ever have you do anything like that in your job description. Most associates will just be doing paperwork and research while partners handle clients. Public/criminal defenders are involved in trials, but those usually aren't the most desirable jobs.

I highly recommend against getting a law degree from anything but the Top 14 law schools (or top ~30 if you're getting a generous scholarship) because the job market is so terrible right now. Don't rely on the statistics that are marketed in law schools' websites as they are selective about which data to show the public and the numbers are very misleading. Talk to any recent graduate and they'll tell you that the number of jobs open to JDs have just vanished in the past few years because the law market is vastly over-saturated (blame the no name law degree mills opening everywhere). Even near the bottom of the T14 some graduates are experiencing trouble finding post-graduate positions.

Tips: Get as high a GPA as you can (seriously don't let yourself get under a 3.8 if you want to get into a T14) and start prepping for the LSAT as soon as possible. LSAC releases full versions of past tests that you can use to prep for the real exam. Your GPA and LSAT can help offset one another if you do great in one and poorly in the other, but typically, you should be shooting for the 3.8/166 lower threshold if you want to be seriously considered for top schools.

Anyway, I'm not a law student. For a few months, I really considered applying and I actually started prepping for the LSAT, but eventually chose not to. I spoke with lots of prospective applicants as well as current students both in real life and online. The only source of credibility I have is that I'm actually now a PhD student at a top business school and the admissions processes are very similar, just using slightly different criterion (GPA performance replaced by research experience; LSAT replaced by GMAT).

Hope that helped.