LSAT And Law School In The News – February Edition
Here is a round up of LSAT and Law School related news items from the past month. Enjoy!
- 5 Unique Career Paths for Law School Grads (US News and World Report)
- How to Pay For Law School (Hello Law School)
- Is Law School At Middle Age Worth Doing? (The Careerist)
- Top iPad Apps For Lawyers (Legal Skills Prof Blog)
Practicing law isn’t your only career option post-law school. Check out these five nontraditional fields where you can leverage a law degree.
There is no denying that law school is an expensive investment. Here are some suggestions on how to lower the amount of money you have to borrow.
Looking to change careers? Find out the pros and cons of going to law school in your 30’s and beyond.
Have an iPad? Here are 10 helpful apps for a lawyer or lawyer-to-be.
Free LSAT Workshops!
TGIF!
To celebrate the end of another work week, we’re announcing several free LSAT workshops, both Live Online and in New York City.
These 2 hours workshops will include a Logic Games and Logical Reasoning lesson, and will be led by some of our geekiest instructors. Did we mention that these are free?? Dates and links for signup are below.
Free LSAT workshops in New York:
Free Live Online LSAT Workshops:
Happy Studying!
From Pre Law to the 1% – Interesting Statistics on Attorney Earning Prospects
It all started with a 180 on his LSAT
A serious motivational factor for many aspiring lawyers is the potential income that top attorneys earn. A recent New York Times article strives to deconstruct “the one percent”, and the folks at the Above The Law blog have pulled out the data from the article relevant to lawyers.
They point out, among other cool factoids, that only physicians, CEOs, and public administrators rank ahead of attorneys on the list of livelihoods represented among the 1%.
There are some truly compelling statistics in this article, and a very interesting interactive breakdown of earnings by career.
How many of you are going to law school with the hopes of joining the 1%?
Number of Law School Applications in Decline
The Legal Skills Prof Blog is reporting that law school applications are in sharp decline from last year – this according to a report published on a password protected page of LSAC’s website.
The data in the report shows a 16.7% downturn in applications to law school, and a 15.3% downturn in applications to the American Bar Association. Simply put, there are fewer players in the “law school game”, a trend you should expect to see continue, at least in the short term.
The Law School Express, circa 2008
If I place myself in your shoes, oh law school hopeful, I think there are two important things to glean from this information. The first is quite obvious and good news for the law school applicant. Less competition for those coveted spots in the nation’s top law schools will certainly not hurt your chances.
I arrived at the second big takeaway by considering why law school applications are declining. The market of law school hopefuls is certainly reacting to the well publicized lack of job prospects that newly minted attorneys are facing today.
The staggering 16.7% downturn is compounded by the fact that there is a natural tendency for undergrads to flock to grad school during an economic downturn instead of testing the struggling job market. Read more
Friday Links
Happy Friday!
Unfortunately there is no overtime on the LSAT
To help you gear up for this Holiday weekend, we gathered some interesting law school and pre law links from around the web, as well as a few ‘just for fun’ selections. Enjoy!
The National Law Journal analyzes the results of the 2011 Law School Survey of Student Engagement. The findings? Law School students are generally quite happy with their experience.
Law School Podcaster examines which majors are most advantageous for pre law students.
This is slightly throwback, but still supremely interesting! Long before the landmark 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama became the first African American elected to another prestigious post.
The New York Times has a very interesting piece on undergraduate education, titled “What is College For?“.
And last but not least, just because I can’t get enough of Tim Tebow mania, “Tebowie“.
FINALLY! December LSAT Scores Are HERE!
She's probably hanging out with your December LSAT score
@*&%$#^!!!
That pretty much sums up the collective sentiment of December 2011 LSAT takers everywhere. Forget Waldo and Carmen Sandiego, where the #$&% are the December LSAT scores?! Well, the wait is over: LSAT scores started rolling out at approximately 5:20pm EST. The curve for the December exam was -14 for a 170, -28 for a 160.
Remember, it is inadvisable to open up that email from LSAC while driving a car, operating heavy machinery, or standing in the same room as minors or others who might object to vulgarity.
Lastly, remember to check out our free review of the December LSAT happening next Tuesday night. Two of our geekiest instructors will be on hand to review some of the more difficult games from the exam, as well as give their sage-like advise on whether or not you should consider a retake.
Best of luck!
Some Predictions for 2012 (Happy New Year!)
12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, and 4 LSATs later, 2011 is behind us.
2011 was a banner year for Manhattan LSAT: in addition to teaching a record number of students, 2011 saw the release of the 2nd edition of our LSAT Strategy Guides.
Happy New Year from Manhattan LSAT
2012 promises to be an even bigger year, as we get ready to bring our 99th percentile approach to even more students in more places (check us out in Boston and Boulder this year!). Needless to say, we can’t wait to help every one of our students achieve their personal goals on the LSAT.
Today I’m taking a look at the road ahead in 2012 and making some bold (and some not so bold) predictions for the year: Read more
Wednesday Musings
Here are a few links from across the web to catapult us through the stretch run of the Holiday season.
New York Times journalist David Segal has written another article about law school – although this time he abandons his familiar cautionary tone to point out some of the flaws in the current American Bar Association accreditation process that law schools must go through.
OnlineColleges.Net has a useful piece on dealing with the stress of law school.
ClearAdmit.com is debuting a new law school blog at //law.clearadmit.com/. Here you can download 12 free guides to law school – they have guides for Harvard, Yale, Stanford, NYU, and Northwestern, among many others – totally free!
GirlsGuideToLawSchool.com has a fun and insightful piece about making the most of your winter break.
When Will the December 2011 LSAT Scores be Released?
In some ways, the wait for the December LSAT scores to be released by LSAC may be a little easier than the other three test implementations, given
The Art of the Sketchy Attorney Billboard - via Copyranter
the number of distractions that this time of year can provide. Try telling that to someone who has spent the last 8 months studying, however, and I’m sure they could convince you otherwise. When it does finally get released, be sure to join our Free December 2011 LSAT Review Session.
Regardless, I know most December 2011 LSAT takers are craving some sort analysis/advice as to when that crucial email will hit inboxes. Past trends tell us that you can anticipate scores being released some time either shortly after Christmas, or shortly after New Year’s Day. Last year, scores were released on January 6th – but for SEVERAL years prior, scores were released before the New Year. It remains to be seen if last year’s January release date was an anomaly, or the start of a new trend of later December LSAT score releases.
In the meantime, if you’re looking for lawyer-ly things to pass your time, check out this hilarious blog entry from ‘copyranter’ depicting six hysterical roadside billboards advertising local attorneys. It’s worth a click- I promise!
While you are waiting for your Dec 2011 LSAT Scores
I thought I would pass on some words of encouragement and an interesting article I came across on the web today. First, the encouragement:
If you took the December LSAT and are feeling pretty good about the way the test “felt” a few Saturday’s ago, congratulations! Be sure to come by our free Review the LSAT Workshop happening on January 10th.
You’ve made it this far and you ought to be commended – it’s a long and often stressful road to law school! Hopefully now you are seeing the proverbial ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ right in front of you. You’re almost there!
Law Enforcement: Putting the 'Prudence' in Jurisprudence
Speaking of roads to law school, I came across this excellent article in The Harvard Crimson this weekend. This particular article speaks to how nontraditional some paths to law school can be, and uses the example of three Harvard Law students who were police officers before deciding to go back to school.