Why so few Criminal Justice and Criminology majors at top law schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a great major if you are interested in becoming FBI, CIA, or law officer moving up to chief, director, etc., and also bunch of government agencies and moving up. If you go to top school and major in criminal justice, you will have much better chance in those areas.

Sounds better than most humanities majors.

Not for fbi or cia. CIA wants top grades from top schools in traditional majors. FBI wants lawyers or accountants or people from military.

The criminology major is not serious. And yes political science or history are better because the analytical skills that are developed.

They were known to recruit out of the Ivies. W&M and Georgetown too.

Of course they recruit at the Ivies. They also recruit at all kinds of colleges. And FBI does not just want accountants and lawyers. Those aren’t the ones that go out in the field.

CIA chatted me up while I was studying acting at an open-admissions arts school.

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Criminal Justice majors are just about the worst LSAT performers. They're at around the 30th percentile.

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Trade school major.

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Anonymous wrote:Criminal justice majors are largely for people who want to go straight to work after they finish their Criminal Justice major — like being a police officer. It’s not generally a degree people get before heading to law school.

It’s a major for federal law enforcement or state department. Great for that. Excellent major with lots of options.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the majority of kids interested in criminal justice want to work in law enforcement or be a cop.

Got a friend who just graduated with BS in Criminology and is now at NSA. Excellent job prospects and variety of positions with this major.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-attorney-347k-student-loan-debt-no-job-biden-forgiveness-2022-7

"Meet a first-generation attorney with $347,000 in student debt who can't land a job and says 'there are a substantial number of people like me that are being forgotten'"

Unlike medical schools, there are many law schools with 50% 60% 70% acceptance rate.
Good luck with the degree.

Sounds like a problem unique to him

"But after graduating from law school in 2017, Pederzani today has $347,000 in student debt that keeps growing. He took out graduate PLUS loans to attend Seattle University School of Law, which allowed him to cover the full cost of tuition, but medical complications with his fiancée delayed him from taking the bar exam, and their collective incomes took a major hit since his fiancée could not work.
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As a result, Pederzani could no longer afford Seattle rent so he temporarily moved to Nebraska to live with his fiancée's family. They now live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Pederzani took and passed the bar exam, and they're currently using rental assistance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Graduate PLUS loans — the type of loan Pederzani took out — are the most expensive type of federal loan with the highest interest rate, now at 7.54%. "


He went to a the 114th ranked law school and then had to move to a city where there isn't an alumni base and take the bar late pulling him out of traditional recruiting cycles.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a great major if you are interested in becoming FBI, CIA, or law officer moving up to chief, director, etc., and also bunch of government agencies and moving up. If you go to top school and major in criminal justice, you will have much better chance in those areas.

Sounds better than most humanities majors.

Not for fbi or cia. CIA wants top grades from top schools in traditional majors. FBI wants lawyers or accountants or people from military.

The criminology major is not serious. And yes political science or history are better because the analytical skills that are developed.

They were known to recruit out of the Ivies. W&M and Georgetown too.

Of course they recruit at the Ivies. They also recruit at all kinds of colleges. And FBI does not just want accountants and lawyers. Those aren’t the ones that go out in the field.

They want people who can pass background checks. They recruit heavily at BYU and they love already cleared officers leaving the military