A question for law school students and/or lawyers???
1) I have a strong background in standardized test taking. However, my quantitative skills have often carried my scores, although my verbal scores were not terrible. Has anyone else been in my situation, and if so, how did you fare on the LSAT?
2) As I mentioned, I am a very quantitative person, and I am afraid that the law may not hold my interest. I would hate to change courses, enroll in a law school, and pay the tuition, only to realize that it is something that I absolutely hate. Can any one recommend a source where I could determine if the curriculum is something that would interest me.
3) I have had trouble finding the different “tiers” of schools. The schools I am looking at (and Businessweek ranking) include: U of Georgia (32), Georgia State (82), Emory (22), etc – essentially, all are in the top 100. How do I find out what tier these schools are in?
Also, tuition is listed as ranging from 7,000 to 35,000. Is this per year or semester?
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Go visit a local law school. Ask to sit in on a class. That’ll give you an idea if you’d be bored out of law school. Just remember that being a lawyer has very little to do with what law school is like.
I’d also recommend shadowing different types of lawyers. See if you can shadow a lawyer practicing Intellectual Property. It sounds like you have a BS degree so that may be an area of law that interests you.
Tier is easy to figure out. They normally follow the US News rankings. 1-50 is First Tier. 51-100 is 2nd Tier. 101-150 is 3rd Tier. Anything lower is 4th Tier.
Tuition depends on the school. I’d have to see the wording to see if they’ve broken it down to semester or not. $35,000 is definitely going to be for the whole year. $7,000 sounds like it could be for a semester, altho I know state schools in that part of the US are good bargains so it might actually be for the year. Just check the school’s website. Research is a big part of being a lawyer. Finding out the answer to that shouldn’t be too hard for your. Don’t like doing even that, then don’t be a lawyer.
After three F^&*ing years of law school and an intensive bar review class you sit for the bar.
However, the idiots who developed the software don’t bother to test it and it randomly deletes answers.
And like hundreds of other bar applicants you are screwed because of idiot software engineering.
It is not worth it.
