A Balanced Review of Harvard Extension

[Josh7]

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There were 44,000 new grads produced out of law schools last year according to a story in today's Wall Street Journal. (That's almost equal to the number of medical school applicants.) Alas there are only 23,000 jobs for new law school grads who have passed the bar. Many of the rest are in low paying jobs that make it tough to pay off their school loans.

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Yikes, that's no fun 🙁

 

[deleted393595]

Yikes, that's no fun 🙁

How'd you get to be a rocket scientist?!?

 

[Josh7]

How'd you get to be a rocket scientist?!?

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[Law2Doc]

There were 44,000 new grads produced out of law schools last year according to a story in today's Wall Street Journal. (That's almost equal to the number of medical school applicants.) Alas there are only 23,000 jobs for new law school grads who have passed the bar. Many of the rest are in low paying jobs that make it tough to pay off their school loans.

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In general, the people graduating from the top twenty to thirty schools, and the top folks with law review from everywhere else get good jobs. In each city there are regional schools whose better graduates do quite well. The rest have to fight. This is a consequence of having the gatekeeper function happen AFTER law school (ie the state bar and the job market), rather than at law school admissions. For med school half the people who apply won't get in. That leaves the numbers pared down nicely in light of the number of residency slots and ultimately jobs. For law school, if you apply to enough places and did halfway ok in college, somebody will take your money. More people fail out of law school than med school, and in some states up to 30-40% won't pass the bar. From the remainder, some won't get jobs. So competition to do well is fierce. In many ways it's more competitive than medicine, just not at the admissions checkpoint.

 

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[Euxox]

Wow I always assumed it was similar to med competitiveness

Good law schools are similar in competitiveness to med schools, but there are a lot of really bad law schools out there. Even the "worst" med schools have about a 90% pass rate on the USMLE, and I'd assume that good law schools have similar pass rates on the bar exam.

 

[Textbookversion]

Bottom tier law schools are open enrollment these days. If you take the LSAT and have a degree someone will take your money, even if every single class you ever took you got a C in.

Employment stats for those even at t14's these days are crap.

Check out Law School Transparency if you are curious.