"Apply to Law School Now!" YES, someone actually wrote an article stating this!

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Anonymous wrote:The only people who should be going to law school are those who get into a top-ten school or get a free ride. Otherwise, do not bother.

So, this is our thinking - My husband is older than most law students (29), a veteran and has a job. However, he would be an incredibly good attorney, especially immigration or constitution. Not big money getters, we know. However, with his LSAT scores (very, very high...but mediocre college grades...not sure how important that is since it's been a long time and lots of life between college and now) and GI Bill, we think that it will cost very little or even nothing for him to get his JD. We are going to move out of the area and Penn is where he really wants to go.

Is this still a stupid idea?

College grades are important at penn, most qualified applicants have high test scores so that alone won't be enough. Also common for about half the class to have life experience, so that also is not enough to rely upon.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard of horror stories of Penn Law kids not getting jobs.

I don't think law school is a good idea these days unless you go to YHS or get 50%-100% tuition at CCN

Bottom third of any law school,class has always struggled but for a brief few boom years.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard of horror stories of Penn Law kids not getting jobs.

I don't think law school is a good idea these days unless you go to YHS or get 50%-100% tuition at CCN

Bottom third of any law school,class has always struggled but for a brief few boom years.

I think bottom third at YHS will still get access to interesting jobs even if it isn't in the law, especially Y and S (H has a huge class size).

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Anonymous wrote:PP here - he has the GI bill, which provides for some living/housing expenses regardless if he goes full time or part time. He is currently a GS employee here but we are very unhappy here. IDEALLY he'd get a transfer and go to school at night.

There are many lawyers in our social circle. I think his biggest hurdle will be, frankly, the other students in law school. They're jerks. That's why I didn't go to law school (there were dual programs and I shared classes with many, they were just jerks).

I guess our feeling (yes, we've discussed it for years) was that if he has no debt because of school, he would have the freedom to do any type of law that he actually enjoys (non-profit, immigration, international). He currently has a job, but I'd do anything not to be stuck here.

Yes I plan to work.

Get a master degree in Information Security. Should be able to get close to 200k salary in less than 10 years. Computer is not as hard as engineering.

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And what makes you state "computer is not as hard as engineering"? Computer WHAT and Engineering WHAT? Each of those terms relates to many majors of varying difficulty.

CS is harder than Industrial Engineering.....for some people. Chemical Engineering is harder than CS. These are generally accepted levels of difficulty, yes, but there exist many Mechanical Engineers that wouldn't be able to pass a 300 Level English class.

why would you suggest Computer Security to someone getting a law degree? Do you think they pay $200K (an off figure, BTW....although $150K isn't uncommon) for nothing? The CISSP is no cakewalk.

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Anonymous wrote:And what makes you state "computer is not as hard as engineering"? Computer WHAT and Engineering WHAT? Each of those terms relates to many majors of varying difficulty.

CS is harder than Industrial Engineering.....for some people. Chemical Engineering is harder than CS. These are generally accepted levels of difficulty, yes, but there exist many Mechanical Engineers that wouldn't be able to pass a 300 Level English class.

why would you suggest Computer Security to someone getting a law degree? Do you think they pay $200K (an off figure, BTW....although $150K isn't uncommon) for nothing? The CISSP is no cakewalk.

There is a difficulty hierarchy for engineering with electrical and chemical on top and industrial and civil on the bottom.

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At my school it was chemical on top, followed by aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and civil. In that order. Industrial was the joke, but given a time machine I'd have chosen that one. But they're all difficult in their own way and none of them, other than electrical, is related enough to computing to assume someone good at it would do well in CS. Plus there are different hierarchies at different schools and other engineering majors.

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And, of course, this is all irrelevant to the main subject of this thread.