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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP. She wants to do healthcare law and get involved in hospital administration or public health advocacy. It seems like health policy might be a better/cheaper fit. [/quote]
A law degree is great plan for those jobs.  Not the only plan, but certainly a good one.

Sometimes I think people have gone too far down the "law school is terrible!" road.  It's a bad idea for many people, but definitely not for all.[/quote]

I do not think that the desire to practice healthcare law and getting into a top school are mutually exclusive. Another way to look at it is that a law graduate's healthcare law prospects will be greatly diminished by attending a law school outside of the T14. Or, only 20% of the healthcare law jobs available to T14 grads are also available to T50 grads.[/quote]

I did this. I was a bio major from ivy league and applies for joint degree jd/mpH at Georgetown and hopkins.  Practiced in big law in nyc.  It sucked.  I ended up moving to govt and practice securities law niw. Much better quality if life.  In retrospect should have just done law school. I got 95% on LSATS so probably could have gotten in to other schools.  Education was fine but debt load sucked.[/quote]

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