I am currently in my final semester of undergrad and am applying to law school as well. I am a psychology and sociology double major and only need two classes to graduate because I already fulfilled majority of the requirements prior to senior year. I am currently underloading with 3 classes but was also thinking of dropping one class because I am not that interested in it (we have until Feb 1st to drop classes without a 'W'). My dilemma though is whether law schools will not like the fact that I am taking only 2 classes in my final semester, and I was wondering whether they prefer a slightly more rigorous senior year course load?

I submitted my law school applications in February and just last week found out that a research paper I wrote along with other research lab team members has been published in a psychology journal. I was wondering if this was a worthwhile update and if so how I should go about informing the law schools about it. My top choice law schools are UNC, Wake, and Washington and Lee and I looked on their websites and in their emails and it was not mentioned whether I can send them updates or not. All they said was to contact them if necessary. Should I bother to ask them if I could update them, should I just go ahead and update them, or should I just wait it out? Please advise.