Vital advice about the collapsing job market
With the economy collapsing, 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 particular law school requirements than they have ever been in recent recollection.
At the same time, the job market for lawyers is aweful. Law firms are exhibiting higher degrees of fastidiousness in the hiring process than they have exhibited in recent history.
When I graduated, during the late 1990s technology boom, which was a incredible day, the median starting salary for members of my class in computer engineering was $50,000.00. The average lawyer in Texas was, at the time, earning $45,000.00, and this average of lawyer salaries was taken across all ages and levels of experience. So, there was some real risk that I was about to spend 3 years of my life and a small fortune for a graduate diploma 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 political science 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 investment. You don’t need a finance degree to see that this one is stupid.
The law is two worlds. If you’re not well-prepared, 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 successful and turning your life into a living Hell is going to a respected law school. The difference between getting into a respected law school and having to accept a unemployable 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, manipulate. 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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