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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Compared to 30 years ago, I think it's very true that there are comparatively few bright students interested in becoming lawyers today. Now, smart and ambitious students are much more likely to choose engineering, finance, pre-med, tech, and consulting.

People are much more informed today about the realities of being a lawyer. And neither the life nor the money seems that appealing to most. I think you really need to feel it as a vocation for it to make sense.  [/quote]

Agree! Very few of my daughter's Princeton class went to law school compared to consulting, IB and FinTech.[/quote]

That’s because T14s, unlike the M7, discriminates against good schools. They want a 4.0 from southwest flyover state U instead of a 3.5 in math at Princeton. Any front office role in consulting, IB, and fintech straight out of undergrad is better than a V5 offer. [/quote]

This is 1000% false.  The T14 law schools are like 70% all kids from top 20 undergrads with their own undergrads massively over represented.

You then have 1 kid from like 150 different schools.[/quote]

Untrue. People at Ivies with the grades for law (now, about 3.8 or 3.9 and above) go into IB and asset management. Law is very much frowned upon. You do get some stray Oberlin/UVM/Holy Cross/Loyola Los Angeles tier people. Law school admissions do not give weight towards going to a highly ranked undergrad. Go look at the scatterplot of GPAs and LSATs, it is almost entirely predictive (affirmative action making up the remaining variable)[/quote]
Wealthy UC students aren't going to be toiling away at BigLaw and letting some psycho partners own their lives and control their time.[/quote]

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