Have law schools been misrepresenting median salary data? Forum

[Geat27]

I have heard this alleged several times, and I'm not saying it's not possible, but no one has convinced me that it's true.

[traehekat]

NOPE.

[094320]

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[Stringer Bell]

Yes. Sometimes they err a little on the cautious side.

[eandy]

If they have been lying, HOW COME EVERYONE HAS A RICH TTT FRIEND? hmm? EXPLAIN DAT.

[megaTTTron]

If they have been lying, HOW COME EVERYONE HAS A RICH TTT FRIEND? hmm? EXPLAIN DAT.

EVERYONE has one.

[thwalls]

Smells like JDU troll bait.

[gwuorbust]

Smells like JDU troll bait.

seriously, over the last three months they have been coming out of the woodwork on here.

[thwalls]

Smells like JDU troll bait.

seriously, over the last three months they have been coming out of the woodwork on here.

If you ever go over there you'd find that they are on a mission to educate us about the perils of a legal education.


*Edited to remove excess troll bait.

[gwuorbust]

Smells like JDU troll bait.

seriously, over the last three months they have been coming out of the woodwork on here.

If you ever go over there you'd find that they are on a mission to educate us about the perils of a legal education.


*Edited to remove excess troll bait.

anyone with half a brain should be able to figure out that attending a TTTT at sticker is a recipe for disaster. those that can't deserve 200k in debt for attending Florida Coastal et. al.

[thwalls]

Smells like JDU troll bait.

seriously, over the last three months they have been coming out of the woodwork on here.

If you ever go over there you'd find that they are on a mission to educate us about the perils of a legal education.


*Edited to remove excess troll bait.

anyone with half a brain should be able to figure out that attending a TTTT at sticker is a recipe for disaster. those that can't deserve 200k in debt for attending Florida Coastal et. al.

I think the smart ones over here already realize that, in this economy, investing in a legal education is a gamble. The smart ones either A. Go to a top ranked law school and perform well enough to stay well above the median, or B. Go to a regional state school, with a decent scholarship, that is well established in its market.

Does either one guarantee a great/good/decent job after law school? No.

[BriaTharen]

They don't misrepresent, they simply give the information they were provided with. Median salaries are collected through a survey filled out by the students. If a student doesn't fill it out or isn't employed, they don't get $0 as their salary, they just throw it out. I'm not going to say which school it is, but there is one that I saw that had a relatively high median salary, but the count was only considering 30% of the graduating class. Others probably just didn't fill out the survey.

[truffleshuffle]

They don't misrepresent, they simply give the information they were provided with. Median salaries are collected through a survey filled out by the students. If a student doesn't fill it out or isn't employed, they don't get $0 as their salary, they just throw it out. I'm not going to say which school it is, but there is one that I saw that had a relatively high median salary, but the count was only considering 30% of the graduating class. Others probably just didn't fill out the survey.

TTTulane?

[TheTopBloke]

Probably.

[gwuorbust]

They don't misrepresent, they simply give the information they were provided with. Median salaries are collected through a survey filled out by the students. If a student doesn't fill it out or isn't employed, they don't get $0 as their salary, they just throw it out. I'm not going to say which school it is, but there is one that I saw that had a relatively high median salary, but the count was only considering 30% of the graduating class. Others probably just didn't fill out the survey.

TTTulane?

bingo, you caught my soon-to-be school. that was for the 2007 class where they said median = 140k

for 2008 class something like 70% reported and median went down to 90k.