I’ve got into law at USYD but I don’t really want to become a lawyer (would rather IB) is it hard enough that I will really not enjoy myself and not maintain a high WAM if I don’t like law?
you won't be maintaining a high wam in usyd law whether you like it or not LOL i think the medallist is usually around 82 wam and i've been told by academics most people sit on a pass/credit average. i dropped like less than 10 marks across 2 years of legal studies, including the hsc and lat and got massively humbled in my first actual law subject when i got a credit back. grades are on a curve and your competition consists of people who all got 99.5+ atars or 85+ wam after transfer. for the first 3 years, you do mostly your 2nd degree anyway, like 1 or 2 law subjects a semester, so if you change your mind you still have degree progression and its not the end of the world.
you can do the degree even if you don't want to be a lawyer, but the degree is the requirement to become a lawyer, so it's a bit of an unnecessarily difficult degree to do if you don't intend on using the professional qualifications. i'm sure an llb or jd from usyd looks nice to an employer in any case though.
if you don't like law at all, and don't even plan on being a lawyer, i don't recommend it. to me, a molecular biology degree felt like kindergarten compared to the law 2nd degree, and i actually enjoy studying law. the workload is gruelling in later years even if you're aiming for passes and if you're doing the degree for shits and giggles its not going to feel very good.
does prefect count tho?