Quote: (03-14-2018 12:18 PM)Hypno Wrote:
Cost of attendance at NY L.S. is $74,476 times 3 years.
http://www.nyls.edu/admissions/tuition_a...ncial_aid/
Now, keep in mind that when they say 39.6 of their grads find employment, they mean anything, including paralegal type document work where they are paid at paralegal level salaries. Even some "name brand" law schools have a good chunk of their reported "employed" graduates working at that level.
Law school is really one of the biggest scams out there once you get outside the very elite tiers of law school. Keep in mind that law salaries are unique bimodal, which means either their getting paid $40-50k in some crap job or $150k+ for work in a "big law firm", with few graduates working in the middle.
So ideally for law school graduates they want to work in Big Law or Federal Clerkship which means their loans will be fully paid off easily.
The Top 12 law schools have a placement rate of over 65% of big law + clerkships. These include schools such as Yale / Harvard. To be competitive for admission you will need to score a LSAT around 170,
which is the top 2.6% of all test takers.
Once you start getting out of this elite tier things start to go down rapidly. in fact Georgetown, which historically has been in the "T14", has a placement rate of mere 50%.
#22 ranked Emory? Only 30%. LSAT average for emory: 165. Top 8% of LSAT takers. How about SMU, what some people in Dallas consider a "reputable school" (hint its not), placement rate of 20%. I can go on and on.
Essentially anything after Top 25 Law Schools your taking a huge risk of graduating in crushing debt for the rest of your life. Even if you make it to the big leagues, such as a WUSTL (#18) you still have a mere 50% chance of getting a good job.
If you ever meet someone who wants to go to law school (especially female hamstering) show them the numbers.
So going to a "TTT" (Third Tier Toilet School), is guaranteed debt with no upside. Only a fool would go to such a terrible school aka our college porn star. At best she will get a paralegal job paying her $20 an hour. She will be tricked out for a long time to pay her debts.