Once you get accepted somewhere, just ask someone in admissions. They'll either find a way to find students that they know of going into that, or if a school has a specific program like that, just contact the professor that runs the program and ask if he/she can put you in touch with any students.IsThisForReal wrote:Solid advice. How would you go about doing that? Getting contact info for an ag law student at X school?scottidsntknow wrote:Yea I understand, but what I'm saying is that falls out of the scope of how people typically get hired really. I think you'd need to talk to students at schools you end up looking at and getting the truth. Talking to the school's themselves is almost useless tbh. Obviously they will all say yea, come here, of course we'll get you an Ag law job.IsThisForReal wrote:Well ag law really includes all kinds of random things besides just environmental. It's pretty broad. So I feel like I would have several decent options if I cant necessarily get an "ag" law job. You just have to learn how to word it for the people that don't understand ag. Same thing with my undergrad degree. So I'm pretty used to it by now.
Try to see students pursuing the same thing and see how they went about it and how feasible it is. I wouldn't really trust people working in the field either, unless it's someone guaranteeing you a job.
Again I'm not trying to be harsh, but I don't want you to make a mistake that you really regret. Despite how schools sell it, a JD isn't a super flexible degree. It's important to go into law school knowing what you want to do, but it's also important that what you want to do is realistic. You don't want to be in 3L year hustling for an Ag law job that doesn't pan out and then end up screwed.
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