Yeah, the lawyer I know was poli sci in undergrad, as well. I think that's pretty normal. (It's actually my default assumption of what someone will take if they're planning on going into law. Then again, I attended a liberal arts college that didn't have loads of the departments that have been created in the last thirty years. Computer Science was kind of an offshoot of Mathematics, still, even.)

I'm writing a fic in which Matt goes to NYU (because I think he's secretly pretty snobby, at times, and my very vague impression of NYU makes me think he'd fit right in that way) studying public policy (because of his Thurgood Marshall obsession, of course!), while Foggy attends Empire State University (a Marvel creation, the equivalent of DC's Hudson University, as far as I can tell), with a good ol' political science major. It's been fun, because I can research the real NYU to help with my story and then just make up the ESU stuff out of thin air.

I was also an English major, and was encouraged during college to look into law, as well as other grad schools (such as seminary), for that reason. Law schools appreciate students who can communicate well, apparently. (Although I was an English major for the *literature,* and only took the one composition course they made me take, so I'm not sure that advice was aimed at me so much as the composition-loving classmates at the departmental assemblies.)