Should I go to Southwestern Law School W/ no scholarship? Forum

[IronHBM]

Get some work experience while you prepare for the lsat. Try to pad your application with some community involvement and volunteer work. Retake and good luck, an unranked is not worth sticker.

[tyro]

If you do read somewhere that the avg. Southwestern grad makes 80k/yr keep in mind that it is total bs and that the only people who took that survey were in the top 5% of their class.

[Danteshek]

I paid full tuition at Southwestern last year before transferring to Loyola (where I wrote on to law review). But I am 29, not 23. If OP wants to do something like criminal law or family law, I think he'll be okay at Southwestern. The best option is to get work experience, regardless if OP is eventually able to get into a better school.

[jump_man]

You should check out this link to see Law School Transparency's employment stat's for Southwestern: --LinkRemoved--

[MTal]

No you should not.

[bk1]

You should check out this link to see Law School Transparency's employment stat's for Southwestern: --LinkRemoved--

I find it sketchy that Southwestern placed almost 70% of grads into full time lawyer jobs when Loyola only placed 60%. Methinks something isn't right with Southwestern's numbers.

[jump_man]

So a4rings? What did you decide to do?

[adonai]

Also, if you are absolutely set on going to Southwestern, you should consider their accelerated two-year JD program. It will be a really rough two years in terms of school-work, but you will save tons of cold hard cash!

Nope. Re-do the math. The difference is about 10k, which is pretty negligible in the scope of things. Being 110k in debt is probably not that much different than being 120k.

[northwood]

isnt 10k in debt equilivent to about 100 a month if you decide to repay the loan over 10 years( just doing quick mental math here so im probably wrong)?

[adonai]

isnt 10k in debt equilivent to about 100 a month if you decide to repay the loan over 10 years( just doing quick mental math here so im probably wrong)?

More like 85ish, but with the interest then maybe yeah closer to 100. I don't know, to me it just doesn't seem like much in the grand scheme of things. I really see it no differently when you're 3.5 million in debt as opposed to 3 million. Probably screwed either way. I'd definitely pay 10k more for a full time program and have the extra studying leeway and time to escape the economy.