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[quote=Anonymous]Just remember that law jobs for people with middling grades, even URMs with middling grades, are difficult to come by and are likely to be so for many years to come.  Law school can be a bit of a pressure cooker that is not particularly forgiving to people who are going through issues or can't get organized or aren't bothered to do the reading.  Unless you are a bit of a genius, law school is a lot of work and quite a slog.  It is not something I would particularly recommend to someone who had a difficult time maintaining grades in college who is looking for an escape from the doldrums of their current plodding day job.

I realize your LSAT score is one of the few "outs" to your current situation that you can see right now, but please realize that it could just be another dead end.  Hey, even if you did well in law school, then you would have to be a lawyer, and there is really nothing in your question that makes me think you either have any conception of what that's like or would enjoy the work involved in it.

Twenty years ago, people could escape from their bad decisionmaking in college by going to law school.  The market allowed it.  Today's market does not.[/quote]

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