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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - wow!  Thank you so far.  I really do appreciate the responses - I was afraid no one would respond.  I am a lawyer as is wife and we both hated it so know what everyone is saying.  We've advised DD how grueling the field can be and how poor the job opportunities are now compared to when we graduated.  DD is drawn to it - she's taking a con law course now at college and doing spectacularly in it, mostly because she likes to argue.  We've thrown every AboveTheLaw column about life as an associate at her but she still thinks she wants to do it.  The counselor is a great idea.  She's also talking Masters' Degree.  I see her more as as an (absent-minded) academic than practicing lawyer.  Keep those comments coming and THANK YOU!  Much appreciated![/quote]

If you see her as an academic type, law school is not the right course.  Law school prepares you to be a lawyer, not an academic.  Unless you are at the top of your class at Yale, in which case you may be competitive for one of the handfuls of academic jobs open per year. This notion that you can do anything with a law degree is not founded in the real it of today's job market. [b](Again, I work at a law school and have counseled hundreds of students over the years.  I have seen the carnage and the kids that DISPROPORTIONATELY struggle are the ones with anxiety.[/b]  The ones that fail the bar also seem to be the ones that d struggled with anxiety in disproportionate numbers.)

But I have no doubt your daughter will go ahead and try because law schools are full of students who ignored good advice and thought they would succeed because they liked their undergrad ConLaw class and are "good at arguing" and had no idea that neither of these things bears a lick of relation to how well one will do in law school.
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Since you work at a law school, can you answer the question as to when to do neuropsych testing again and when to take the LSAT, assuming two years off after college graduation?[/quote]

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