Important advice about the crippled employment situation
With the economy 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 failure of the overall economy, law schools are seeing a surge of applicants.
Law schools can be (and are) more selective about their 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 oversupplied on a good day. And this is a aweful day.
When I graduated, during the late 1990s Internet boom, which was a good day, the mean starting salary for members of my class in electronic engineering was $50,000.00. Yes, this was ancient history. 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 education that was less valuable than the undergraduate 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 employment 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 debt and lose the opportunity to make a decent 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 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 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 crappy 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 manipulate. Your goal needs to be to concentrate 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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