Law school with a lowish engineering GPA

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Anonymous wrote:An LSAT score is the most important factor in law school admissions, although GPA is important, too. Once your child takes the LSAT you’ll have a better sense of things.

Eh… not sure this is the case. You are saying one test has more sway than 4 years of grades? That makes zero sense.

Yes, LSAT is more important than grades. LSAT is the best predictor of success in law school, and law school grades are the best predictor of success on the bar.

OP -- many people on this thread do not know what they are talking about. If your kid's degree is in ME/EE and they can write and communicate well, they will have very good job prospects as long as they do well in law school. It doesn't have to be at a top law school either. There's a market for people like this in the patent world. But your kid should understand that patent law (which is just one area of IP) isn't the only place a tech background can be useful for lawyers. Law & tech is a huge field with many possibilities. [/quote

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Except it’s not. I had a mediocre LSAT an finished 7th in my class of 250. Law school just made sense to me in a way nothing else ever had. I just got it. I have since successfully passed the bar in more than one state (and in a “hard” state). Personally, I think extreme focus on lsat is stupid but I get it. They need something standard and grades are subjective and heavily inflated these days.

Well, you may be an exception, but there are studies that show that, in fact, LSAT score is the best predictor of success in law school. That doesn't mean it's a perfect predictor, but it is a better predictor than grades. This is not new information...this has been true for a long time. So, yes, it is (despite this not applying to you personally).

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Except it’s not. I had a mediocre LSAT an finished 7th in my class of 250. Law school just made sense to me in a way nothing else ever had. I just got it. I have since successfully passed the bar in more than one state (and in a “hard” state). Personally, I think extreme focus on lsat is stupid but I get it. They need something standard and grades are subjective and heavily inflated these days.

Well, you may be an exception, but there are studies that show that, in fact, LSAT score is the best predictor of success in law school. That doesn't mean it's a perfect predictor, but it is a better predictor than grades. This is not new information...this has been true for a long time. So, yes, it is (despite this not applying to you personally).

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It’s crazy. Law school applications are soaring but today’s lead advertisement in NYT online is an IA program for lawyers that does all of the basic research, drafting and document review. The premise is that it’ll do the work up to the judgement stage, where experienced lawyers get involved. IMO, there’s a risk that in the very short term there will be much less opportunity for new lawyers. With all of this basic work soon to be done by AI, how will new lawyers be trained? Who will hire them and on what basis will they be paid? Will clients pay hourly rates for work that can be done by AI in seconds? Do other lawyers share my concern or am I overreacting?

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Anonymous wrote:Law schools don’t care about your major. A mediocre GPA will be seen as mediocre

Disagree

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely work for 2-5 years. He won’t get t 14 with that gpa. But he will be fine.

It depends on the LSAT score.

It is harder than it used to be because the LSAT has been getting watered down over the last 20 years but a good LSAT with a B+ in engineering can get you into T-14.

I got into T-14 with a much worse GPA than the OP.

Law schools understand that getting As in engineering classes is harder than getting A's in humanities classes.

Patent lawyers make extremely good money on the litigation side, much less so on the prosecution side.