Vital advice about the in the tank job market
With the economy in the tank, it is more critical than ever for prospective law students to meet the requirements for admission to a top-quality law school. Because of the failure of the overall economy, law schools are seeing a surge of applications.
Law schools can be (and are) more fastidious about their law school requirements than they have ever been in recent memory.
At the same time, the employment situation for lawyers is horrible. Law firms are exhibiting higher degrees of snobbery in the hiring process than they have exhibited in recent recollection.
When I graduated, during the late 1990s Internet boom, which was a good day, the average starting salary for members of my class in computer engineering was $50,000.00. Yes, this was long ago. So, there was some real risk that I was about to spend 3 years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars for a graduate degree that was less valuable than the first degree that I already had. Fully a third of the licensed attorneys in Texas do something other than practice law. There just isn’t enough legal business to go around.
For every kid making $165,000.00 a year straight out of school, there are 10 new lawyers making $40,000.00 per year. Now, if you have an history degree, you may here $40,000 per year and think, “Wow, that’s a huge step up!” But wait, that $40,000 per year is after you sink $100k in loans and lose the opportunity to make a respectable wage during the years that you are in law school. Going $100k into debt for a $40k/year job is not a good plan. You don’t need a accounting degree to see that this one is stupid.
The law is two worlds. If you’re not lucky, you will end up coming out of school to a $40k/year job (or none at all) with $100k in debt.
The difference between being lucky and turning your life into a living Hell is going to a well-ranked law school. The difference between getting into a well-ranked law school and having to accept a unemployable law school is your ranking relative to the law school admission requirements. They are:
* Your LSAT score
* Your Undergraduate GPA
* Your Race
* Your Admissions Essays
* Your Letters of Recommendation
* Your Resume (this means everything else)
* Your string pulls
Now, there are some of these factors that you can, in fact, adjust. And there are some that you can’t control. Your goal needs to be to act on the factors that you can adjust in a way that changes the outcome.
For advice on how to do just that, you’re welcome to visit: http://www.lawschoolrequiements.org.
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