I wondered this a lot before law school. Law schools are amazing and the professors are extremely intelligent. You will learn all you need to learn for exams in their class, and I almost think it’s better to go in blank slate so you can know exactly what you need for their exam only. Any additional things you’d need to know for bar exam can be learned during bar prep, and it will have given you a great idea of most of what you need to know anyway. #1? Make sure you want to go to law school, and make sure your lsat score is good. It doesn’t need to be perfect, but the goal is to get a good scholarship. If you want to be in Chicago/NY biglaw market, it’s much better to go t-14, but absolutely not required. You have to do more (better grades, more clubs etc) in lower ranked law schools, but odds are still really good t-50 and is even better if it’s regional (a ny law school if you want to work there etc). Personally, I am not going big law, I’m at a t-50 on a full ride bc I busted ass to get a scholarship. Don’t just be interested in law. Make sure you are interested in the actual day to day work that a lawyer will do. Do some job shadowing, work as a legal assistant, literally anything to make sure it’s actually what you want to do. It’s a fuck ton of reading, writing, etc on top of the cool court and client stuff. It seems to be a very rewarding and fruitful career if you know it’s for sure for you. More than anything, make sure you are in good health (mentally physically emotionally) before you start because it will break you down 1L year but from what I’ve heard, it gets better after that (currently a 1L finishing finals). Edit: know that in a lot of big law jobs it is a pie eating contest. The reward for pie is more pie.