good question. i thought about pursuing international corporate law, but as of now i'm just going w/ my marketing major and i'll see from there. but being able to say i'm an international corporate lawyer when i'm older would be cool.
My $0.02 (generic): Despite what admissions offices tell you, the LSAT will make or break your application. A couple of years ago this was not the case. It is that damn important to get a good score now.
Personal experience as an applicant last year. I have a poor LSAT score high GPA and I applied to schools using the Official Guide as a reference. I got waitlisted and ultimately rejected by schools that would have accepted me 2-3 years ago. These were not bad schools. I should retake but I don't know if I want to go to law school anymore. I am applying again to lower ranked schools however to see if I can get in. Just looking over the charts in the Official Guide, you can see how important the LSAT is now. A high LSAT can overcome a low GPA, a high GPA cannot overcome a low LSAT. IMO, the LSAT is more important to law schools than they let applicants know.
Well, I'm hoping my work experience may help as well, but who knows. I wasn't even worried about it until a month or so ago, now I'm flipping out.
i got screwed, took kaplan, had a 166 going into the test, my results were lower than before i took kaplan. just trying to get into a school now in the bottom 1st tier or 2nd tier. ive worked in law firms in new york and internationally, and have done quite a few volunteer things, I don't think that will get me anywhere though. i hate the process, but its better than trying to get a job now.
Sorry, not at top 20 schools like UT. They're looking for a killer LSAT and GPA...pretty much they want everything to be good. But if you can get in to a top 20, you're set for life. I'm speaking about bottom first tier, second tier, and third tier. It's all about LSAT.
I'm thinking about law school right now as well. I really hate the fact that this guys thread has been totally derailed, buuuuuut... Right now I'm a sophomore and I've got a 4.0 GPA, say i finished with anything above 3.9, where do you think that would set me up as far as geting into a state law school anywhere in Texas or Arkansas?
My sister went to U of H law and dropped out for lack of interest. She basically liked nursing, which was what she was doing before. At least for her, one of the paid courses dramatically raised her LSAT. I would definitely take a course if you are the type like me who isn't really going to have the discipline to take quite a few practice tests under test like conditions.
I honestly think people pay way too much attention to the school you go to. Texas Tech Law was listed in my 2nd and 3rd year as a 4th tier law school (when I applied it was a 3rd tier school). After law school, I clerked for a federal judge with 2 other clerks...one from Virginia (a top 10 program for those who don't know) and one from Harvard. Unless you're shooting to be a professor or to clerk for the Supreme Court, it doesn't make too much difference in the job market where you go to law school. When you have a job, the bottom is that you gotta produce good work. If you produce, you'll be fine no matter where you go.
I went to UH law and so did my fiancee (that's where we met). The Law School is dropping fast in the rankings. We used to be the 2nd highest ranked school in Texas but I think Baylor has now passed us. In retrospect if I couldve done it over again, I wouldve have applied to UT. Didn't take a review course and just borrowed a book from the Sugar Land library. If I had taken the review course and scored just a little higher I probably wouldve gotten into UT. I did get a scholarship and met my fiancee there so yeah, it was worth it. Caveat: the UH campus sucks.
The campus is what you make of it. I love it at UH. The campus is beautiful, and alot bigger than most people would think, 36,000 students go there. If you just go to class and leave, of course it sucks.
i could not agree more...the rankings change all the time, and are usually based on subjective bullcrap. education is what you make of it.
