Best jobs for pre law student

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These are real-life examples from the past 3 years, as LSAT scores have soared with online test administration and undergrad GPAs have soared during remote learning

One of my kids had perfect GPA and LSAT and strong academic achievements, but had literally never held a job - got in everywhere except Yale, received multiple Top 6 full-ride offers

The other had near-perfect GPA, a high 160s LSAT, and 3 years work experience in a US Attorney's Office, including as senior paralegal on a very high-profile trial, with a glowing letter of recommendation from the attorney on that case - shut out of the Top 14

If that real-world legal experience didn't make up for an LSAT <170 I can't imagine what undergrad part-time job would. It's all GPA and LSAT

Which top 6 law schools give merit full-rides? I didn't know full-rides were a thing for very highly ranked schools.

It’s not -signed Harvard law grad

You’re factually wrong - parent of kid who declined Harvard Law for one of the below

UChicago: Rubenstein Scholarship (full ride + $20k annual stipend)
Columbia: Hamilton Fellowship (full ride)
NYU: AnBryce Scholarship (full ride) and Root-Tilden-Kern (full ride for people with plans to public interest careers)
Stanford: Knight-Hennessy Fellowship (full ride)

Why would you come here and make errors of fact based on nothing but your own outdated assumptions?

Harvard Law does not give merit
Yale law does not give merit
The Stanford program you named is not issued by the law school but applies to all 39 graduate programs at Stanford. It is exceptionally competitive. It is usually rob by international students in one if the other grad programs, not law
Columbia is not a T6
The NYU ones are tagged for special interest

So PP’s claim that someone got merit from the top 6 law schools us demonstrably false

Columbia was T6 when the scholarship was offered

NYU gives 20 full ride merit scholarships every year to people who want to do public interest. How is that not a merit scholarship?

This is so dumb. Every law school offers merit scholarships except Yale and Harvard (which is barely a Top 6 at this point, if rankings mean so much to you)

[Anonymous]

The point is that the PP who said a student got into the T6 with merit at all six is lying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are real-life examples from the past 3 years, as LSAT scores have soared with online test administration and undergrad GPAs have soared during remote learning

One of my kids had perfect GPA and LSAT and strong academic achievements, but had literally never held a job - got in everywhere except Yale, received multiple Top 6 full-ride offers

The other had near-perfect GPA, a high 160s LSAT, and 3 years work experience in a US Attorney's Office, including as senior paralegal on a very high-profile trial, with a glowing letter of recommendation from the attorney on that case - shut out of the Top 14

If that real-world legal experience didn't make up for an LSAT <170 I can't imagine what undergrad part-time job would. It's all GPA and LSAT

Nobody ever said that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t y’all let your kids figure this stuff out?

Because at all ages it's helpful for those with more experience to share their thoughts with those who have less experience.