Great advice. I’m about to graduate law school at 22 in two months. The easier way is the community college courses in high school and in summer during college. You can do it without having too difficult course work. AP courses are riskier since it all comes down to the AP exam and loading up your schedule in school can lower your GPA.
That's true, the risk reward of actually passing the exams can be tricky to weigh. Taking a course would be comparatively more difficult to fail so long as you actually do the work, of course. Just have to make sure the school will actually accept the credit in any event.
I will be graduating law school at 23/24 from a T14. If I followed r/lawschooladmissions advice, I'd be retaking the LSAT multiple times and wasting years to increase scholarship amount and get to the best school possible. People don't realize how valuable time is and it is truly sad to see people wasting years of their lives on studying for the LSAT and starting their legal career so late. These people also don't consider how much harder it is to get into these schools every subsequent year. I was in the 75th percentile when I got accepted. However, If I applied today, I would have been below median and probably would not have gotten in. Its crazy how hard it gets every year.
Congrats! I'd imagine the relative difficulty is rather cyclical. Though time will tell. And indeed, many people grind hard for a top 14 law school spot when they could be very well served by going for a mid-tier with a solid financial package. People often forget about the opportunity cost of their time in preparing for, let alone going through, school.
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Great advice. I’m about to graduate law school at 22 in two months. The easier way is the community college courses in high school and in summer during college. You can do it without having too difficult course work. AP courses are riskier since it all comes down to the AP exam and loading up your schedule in school can lower your GPA.
That's true, the risk reward of actually passing the exams can be tricky to weigh. Taking a course would be comparatively more difficult to fail so long as you actually do the work, of course. Just have to make sure the school will actually accept the credit in any event.
Thank you for sharing! Great insights for prospective law students.
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I will be graduating law school at 23/24 from a T14. If I followed r/lawschooladmissions advice, I'd be retaking the LSAT multiple times and wasting years to increase scholarship amount and get to the best school possible. People don't realize how valuable time is and it is truly sad to see people wasting years of their lives on studying for the LSAT and starting their legal career so late. These people also don't consider how much harder it is to get into these schools every subsequent year. I was in the 75th percentile when I got accepted. However, If I applied today, I would have been below median and probably would not have gotten in. Its crazy how hard it gets every year.
Congrats! I'd imagine the relative difficulty is rather cyclical. Though time will tell.
And indeed, many people grind hard for a top 14 law school spot when they could be very well served by going for a mid-tier with a solid financial package. People often forget about the opportunity cost of their time in preparing for, let alone going through, school.