Important advice about the hobbled employment situation
With the employment situation hobbled, it is more vital than ever for prospective law students to meet the requirements for admission to a top-quality law school. Because of the implosion of the overall job market, law schools are seeing a tsunami of applicants.
Law schools can be (and are) more selective about their particular law school requirements than they have ever been in recent recollection.
Simply stated, America’s law schools are turning out droves of new lawyers faster than the economy needs them. Therefore, the job market is saturated on a good day. And this is a aweful day.
When I graduated, during the late 1990s stock boom, which was a great day, the median starting salary for members of my class in electrical 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 every dime I owned and then some for a graduate education that was less valuable than the existing 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 work to go around.
For every kid making $165,000.00 a year straight out of school, there are 10 wet-behind-the-ears 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 investment. You don’t need a finance degree to see that this one is upside-down.
The law is two worlds. If you’re lucky, and you get good grades at a respected school, you can come out making $150k/year.
The difference between being successful and turning your life into a living Hell is going to a well-ranked law school. The difference between getting into a good law school and having to accept a bad law school is your performance 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, control. 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.
