LAW SCHOOL CAN BITE ME.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by socialite

I am soo frustrated right now with the whole process and granted I'm only a sophomore but I'm the kind of person who freaks out easily about the near and up and coming future...

Geesh...you won't be a very functional human being then.

My advice:

It's a very good idea to start early. When I wanted to go to law school, I did the pre-law thing and worked at a law school. I got to schmoooze with law folk and take practice LSATS. It was fun stuff at the time but I decided before I graduated that my heart and mind were elsewhere that I found more interesting.

Remember that law school isn't for those without a degree of patience, diligence, determination, and logic. It isn't so much about being "smart." Plus, there are graduate degrees that let you exercise your love of certain aspects of the law without law school, if that's your desire.

Since you're starting so early, you have time to feel your way through, get frustrated and take a break, and then get right back on it. But don't get frustrated and give up completely, youngin. Your "youth" is supposed to give you energy and an ability to be optimistic about your future.

[GeekyPenguin]

Don't go, it's a terrible idea!

[MysticCat]

Ditto almost everything that has been said.

I would add two other comments:

First, I would avoid majoring in pre-law or the like. Majoring in pre-law does nothing but prepare you for law school, and in my experience and from my conversations with law school administrators, law schools consider pre-law majors a dime a dozen. Besides, law schools want to be the ones to teach you about the law. Major in something you really enjoy (which will likely yield better grades with less stress) and that will give you something to fall back on if law school doesn't pan out or if you decide against it. It may also provide some student body diversity that law school admissions people are looking for. (I had quite a few tell me that my major in music was considered a big plus for me.)

Second, learn how not to be "the kind of person who freaks out easily about the near and up and coming future." Seriously! If you don't, law school and practicing law will be unbearable.

And one other thing -- drop the word "retarded" from your vocabulary. It doesn't impress.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Ditto almost everything that has been said.

Are you implying my advice was not sound?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

Are you implying my advice was not sound?

Now, why would you assume that your very apt post was the reason for my "almost"? Your advice was quite sound.

[DoubleTDG]

I will be starting Law School in the fall, and would suggest you find the book Law School Confidential (it was suggested by a 3L to me and has been helpful in the entire process). Read it cover to cover, and pay close attention to the first section called "So you wanna be a lawyer..." After reading this book you might have a better idea if law school is really for you.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

First, I would avoid majoring in pre-law or the like. Majoring in pre-law does nothing but prepare you for law school, and in my experience and from my conversations with law school administrators, law schools consider pre-law majors a dime a dozen. Besides, law schools want to be the ones to teach you about the law. Major in something you really enjoy (which will likely yield better grades with less stress) and that will give you something to fall back on if law school doesn't pan out or if you decide against it. It may also provide some student body diversity that law school admissions people are looking for. (I had quite a few tell me that my major in music was considered a big plus for me.)

Good advice and this also depends on what your college/university considers "pre-law." Some pre-law programs are by name only and are really just a mixture of courses from different departments that seem "lawish." They really don't prepare for law school.

I found that a lot of students are able to enjoy the "lawish" types of programs because they end up settling into a department that they love. Then this prepares many of them for graduate school, if they don't want to go to law school.

[socialite]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And one other thing -- drop the word "retarded" from your vocabulary. It doesn't impress.

My apologys, I did not mean to offend.