Homeowner, well said!
I am a second year law student with an undergrad degree from Touro. I took my undergraduate work seriously, and made sure to become very capable of writing, researching and discussiong issues in an academic manner. A BTL cannot, and I stress again, CANNOT prepare you properly for law school and a legal career. If you are going to law school just to get a decent paycheck after you graduate (and these days even that is a remote possibility), I would strongly urge you to look for another profession. Three years of little sleep, much stress, and huge debt,is simply a foolish path to take unless you are genuinely committed to the legal profession as a valuable pursuit – not just a meal ticket.
If you want to excel, it is extremely important that you have a broad liberal arts background. Understand the theory behind the law, politics, society, economics, ect. Learn to write well reasoned, well researched pieces of scholarship. I see the BTL guys in my school (BTW, the school stopped seriously considering any BTL applicants this past year), they struggle, and ultimately are generally not the most successful or productive bunch in terms of their legal skills. They may know how to think, but they dont have the vocabulary, or general knowledge needed to translate their well developed logical minds into good legal thought and practice in a practical non-yeshivah context.
Please note, I dont say this as someone without a yeshivah background. I attended a very elite yeshiva in Meah Shearim, as well as another respected yeshiva in America. I am also studying for yadin yadin smichah. In my experience, it is my broad knowledge obtained as a college student that serves me best in my academic pursuits. And my ability to study law effectively only enhances my ability to dissent complex issues in choshen mishpat, and even see them in new ways due to my exposure to many other ways of thinking about and dealing with novel legal questions.