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Your law school accepted 60 yr olds and retired MDs?? Mine did not have a single one of either of those. The 60 yr olds on campus looking for entertainment were auditing undergrad art history.?[/quote]

Yep, every class at my law school had a couple of these (or similar).  I suspect this is not the norm at the top law schools just because of the competitiveness of admissions.  But at a mid-level state-style university or a night program, this is not uncommon -- from a law school admissions perspective it totally makes sense, these folks likely have higher than mean GPA and LSAT scores, pay full tuition, and aren't going to report unemployment following graduation, if nothing else, it boosts their ranking in the all important US News scores.  Law schools don't constrain the supply of graduates like medical schools so there's no "we have to hold our spots for people who will practice" like med school.  I found law school pretty interesting, so I can see the appeal... [/quote]

Ranking has something to do with this. At Columbia, they have a line out the door that wants to get in -- mostly age 22-30 -- and that's their preference since that allows the school to report that x number of their graduates went to vault 50 firms; district clerkships; COA clerkships; DOJ honors etc. And for "interesting" students -- there's usually a 26-30 yr old MD (who finished med school but doesn't want to practice so doesn't go onto residency; or finished a residency and doesn't want to practice or wants some combo med/law/policy career) and a few young veterans who served a few tours post college. OTOH for mid tier schools, it is about making money -- so adding in a few seats to a lecture hall already owned by the university with professors already on payroll ends up being easy tuition $ for the school and the retired doctors/60 yr old professional types pay full freight. [/quote]

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