is being a lawyer losing its appeal compared to tech or finance for high achieving students?
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Anonymous
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Seems like every high-achieving student is going into tech, finance, or consulting.
Back in the 1990's most of the smart kids aspired to Big Law. |
Anonymous
| It was but now that the bottom fell out of tech apps to law schools are sky high again. There's been a lot more ups and downs for law since the 90s... |
Anonymous
Not really. Just the ones who were verbal/humanities-oriented. The quantitative types definitely went into engineering. And the 80s was the take-off point for MBAs. |
Anonymous
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There have always been smart people who gravitated to tech or finance or consulting or law or medicine or something else, just like today.
It was not true before, nor is it now, that "most of the smart kids" all chose the same career path. |
Anonymous
While true, some paths have lost their shine, e.g. medical school especially. |
Anonymous
| No. Law is still much more interesting. |
Anonymous
| My kid is a freshman in college and plans to go to law school. Don’t have any info about larger trends but interest definitely isn’t dead |
Anonymous
| Eh. Law school. For those who don’t know what they want to do |
Anonymous
Will you be paying for it? a T14 will be 110k+ a year by the time your kid applies. |
Anonymous
He has a trust that will pay for it. It impacted his undergrad choice knowing that he has law school payments ahead. I’m glad it did as the $90k schools he was accepted to were insane. |
Anonymous
NP here. Yes, we will be paying that for DS. We planned for his higher ed all the way through grad school, before he was conceived. |
Anonymous
| In the DMV bubble I know, many of my friends are lawyers who hate being lawyers so they don't steer their kids into it. They went into it because that's what high achieving kids did back then, and/or it pleased their parents and/or it seemed lucrative/interesting. |
Anonymous
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No….those aren’t the same students like…at all.
You think physics PhDs are losing out to construction workers? But on a more serious note, law school admissions are more competitive than ever, and it’s even getting to the point where things that used to easily signal Yale/Harvard Law (Rhodes/Marshall scholar) are no longer the 100% guaranteed ticket. |
Anonymous
| Their all being thretened by AI. |
Anonymous
| I'm a lawyer and worked to convince my kid to go into engineering. I'm so thankful he did. |