TheSpanishMain wrote:get some real work experience (why not go be a paralegal? You can make some money and make sure you actually want to be a lawyer)
I applied to plenty of paralegal and
paralegal assistant jobs over the past year. I've applied to a ton of "credible" jobs (I must have shelled out over 500 job applications in the past year). I don't think my current job is bad, but, like you said a few months ago, a school like NU wouldn't be at all impressed. The reality is that while I did graduate from a Top 25 school, my degree is in English and I was a median student at my undergrad (if those grades even matter).
At this point, I'm wishing I had majored in sociology or philosophy in college. Those are academic disciplines that I am genuinely interested in and maybe I would have liked them enough to pursue a master's degree in those fields. I always liked English but I majored in it because it was my best subject in high school. College was a time for me to explore different interests, get to know a ton of different people from different backgrounds, and take advantage of all the extra curricular/internship opportunities available to me and I failed to do a lot of that. I remain unconvinced that I'll enjoy law, but, I'm almost being forced in at this point as I passed up on the opportunities I had in undergrad to find my true academic passion and none of the "trades" you suggested appeal to me.
Like I said, I'm absolutely going to law school fourteen months from now. There's no point in me applying to any non-T14 other than Seton Hall because SH is going to have comparable job prospects to any non-T14 that gives me a huge scholarship right now except that my COA could be $0 because I could commute.
I'll ED Michigan, apply to Duke, Northwestern, and Cornell and then I'll apply to Seton Hall right after that September LSAT comes back. There's really no point applying to any other schools unless I do something unlikely on that 4th retake.
