College Guide
Blog
March 17, 2011 3:52 PM
Law School Doesn’t Look So Good Anymore
Looks like college students are starting to realize that applying to law school isn’t such an awesome idea after all. According to a piece by Nathan Koppel in the Wall Street Journal:
The number of law-school applicants this year is down 11.5% from a year ago to 66,876, according to the Law School Admission Council Inc. The figure, which is a tally of applications for the fall 2011 class, is the lowest since 2001 at this stage of the process. The Council estimates that the application process is 86% complete, based on historical patterns.
Law school can be a highly lucrative career move for graduates of top law schools who work for certain corporate law firms. For everyone else though, it’s really just a big debt hole.
Law school graduates just aren’t getting lucrative jobs like they used to, and college students are starting to figure that out.
Facebook
Twitter
Brenda Helverson on March 17, 2011 7:45 PM:
Law schools teach a completely outdated version of the law that has little relationship to reality. The noble, powdered-wig-wearing justice-is-blind image of the law is dead (assuming that it was ever alive) and students who buy into this are in for a rude awakening. If you believe in the law, stay away from law school. It will break your heart.