Going back to school.

[General_Failure]

Source?

[rjs246]

Twitter.

[hbionic]

So I took the LSAT and got a well-above-average-but-not-elite score (88th percentile). I had been doing significantly better on my practice exams than I did on the actual test, so I'm a little disappointed. The score is a borderline score for programs ranked 20-30 in the country and more or less a lock for anything outside of the top-30. The score is good for five years, so now I have to decide what to do with myself:

1. Start applying to law schools as is.
2. Take a class, take the test again, try to get a higher score, expand my options.
3. Screw law school and find something else to go back to school for.
4. Keep my job. Keep making good money. Don't go to school. Don't accumulate ridiculous quantities of debt just so I can say I went to Law School. Stop worrying about whether my career is karmically satisfying.
5. Get drunk.

"Get" drunk? Am drunked bitch.


If you're like me being outside the 90th percentile burns just a little. If it's not too big a headache...take the LSAT again. Programs in the top 20-30 vs. those outside the top are comparable to earthquakes on the richter scale. A 7.0 on the Richter scale is 100 times stronger than a 6.0 so stop farging around because the connections you establish in the top 20  can take you farther than those below...unless you have checked the edcuation background of the higher ups where you want to work and see if it matters at all.

Nice job 88

[Diomedes]

Do NOT test again.  Your score will gain you entry in many good law schools.  Unless you need to rub elbows with grasping climbers and ambition drunk elitists, unless you positively must have a top school name on your resume because you're one of the grasping climbers, then opt out of that stupid farging rat race.  Go to a good school with good teachers, learn the law, move on with your life.

[hbionic]

I think Dio and I are saying the same think. Essentially.

[rjs246]

Rubbing elbows and sniffing asses doesn't interest me. Expanding my educational and employment options does. So now I'm torn about which internet jackass to listen to.

Time for option 5.

[phattymatty]

sniffing asses doesn't interest me.

doubtful.

[rjs246]

Caught in a lie. Dammit.

[Susquehanna Birder]

I agree on not worrying too much about the school level. Unless you are going Ivy League, or something like that, nobody cares, as long as you get the sheepskin and you know your shtein.

[Rome]

I went to a state school and now I work for the county government.

Take the test again, jackass.

[rjs246]

Haha. Word.

[Diomedes]

If you take the test again, they average the scores, or they take your best scores?  The class costs how much?  It takes how much time/puts you how much further away from matriculating at law school?

I went to a great private school, cost me a ton of money that I'm still paying off.  One of the best decisions I ever made, no question.  And now I work for myself digging ditches. 

[rjs246]

If you take the test again, they average the scores, or they take your best scores?  The class costs how much?  It takes how much time/puts you how much further away from matriculating at law school?

There is no hard and fast rule about multiple exam scores, but usually they look at the average and the highest of the scores. Class costs are a few hundred bucks, not a deal breaker. I wouldn't be starting until next fall (2011) at the earliest no matter what. 2012 is more likely assuming he don't get devoured by locusts before the school year starts.

[Diomedes]

okay the, I stand pat, and I'm done with this stupid conversation:

1. Start applying to law schools as is.
5. Get drunk.

You'll be a good lawyer.

[Rome]

Scary good?