Alive97 wrote:Well you can tell you came to the right place OP, cause you've already got 3 pages of people arguing over what advice they should give you haha. My advice remains the same which is to be wary of TLS posters who ignore a potentially exceptional case and instead issue blanket statements and exaggerations ("law schools care literally only about numbers").
This is just stupid. We have data that makes the proposition that LSAT and GPA are all that effectively matter undeniable. Rhodes scholars are exceptional cases. Some dude who is 45 and sold his small business (for a sum that would not cover law attending law school) who also happens to have an MBA (which is almost entirely irrelevant here) is in no way an exceptional case. (I'm not trying to tear you down, OP, but you need to have realistic expectations and not think your work experience is going to be some kind of panacea to remedy e.g. a poor LSAT -- it's not).
Alive97 wrote:And to the guy telling OP not to go because he has not done enough research or does not have realistic expectations - why just tell him to go get realistic expectations? You are exposin your preconceived bias when you pontificate from your keyboard that this person "should not go to law school".
What are you talking about here? This is a senseless post. The compelling interest and real-life reason to attend law school should come before the decision to attend law school. You're saying it's reasonable to, for some unknown reason, decide to go to law school, then "develop" some interest/calling and law and come up with some justification to attend?
It seems OP likes the idea of being a lawyer (probably because of his exposure to popular media) but doesn't know much about the profession. That's a big red flag even for wandering KJD lib arts dudes. And then factoring in OP's age and experience level, there's going to be a pretty poor return on investment, in all likelihood. So, yeah, when someone doesn't have a personal justification to attend nor a financial one, I don't really have much problem advising them not to attend, especially considering tens of thousands of people graduate law school jobless every year with six figures of debt (and almost four years of lost income). This is not a decision to be taken lightly.