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buckeye420 wrote:I'm a Chemical Engineering major, 4.0 at #12 school for the program. However, I went to another school my first 2 years and had a 3.7 there. The second school was not ranked very high, I think #80. Will the schools only look at my GPA from the school I graduated from?

Got a 173 on the LSAT

As for internships, I've worked 2 full-time semesters at a polymer plant. Worked part-time 2 semesters at CAS (the company that assigns patents to chemicals for the whole country). And I worked one more full-time semester at a fortune 500 company as an engineering intern. Also I have done research with professors, who would be more than willing to write my letters of recommendation, as would my bosses from any of my internships.

Extracurricular: I was vice-president of a club, and was a competing member on a team for an engineering competition that won 1st place year-to-year.

So here's the run down of my situation: I was turned on to the idea of becoming a patent lawyer by a friend of mine when he told me that to get certified by the BAR association you're required to have a bachelors in engineering or some other scientific field. That really interested me and I decided to take the LSAT and did pretty well on it, but now I'm not really sure what to do with it.

I'm not sure if I want to try to go to a T5 law school or not. On one hand it opens up a lot of opportunity, but I can probably get an extremely good scholarship to an in-state school for me, like Ohio State. How much does the cost investment of going to a T5 school really pay off compared to going somewhere cheaper like OSU for me? OSU is ranked #31 for law and the , does that really make it that much harder to get a job? What kind of salary difference do you think I'd be looking at? I'm not opposed to moving out of state for a job either, like moving to California or New York.

Also I'm pretty sure I'm going to do one of the joint M.B.A./J.D. programs. Are there any certain MBA's that employers look for more than others? YES.If it doesn't even have that big of an impact that doesn't really change my decision to get the MBA as I plan on owning a few small buisinesses at some point in my life. In fact I'll be inheriting one right after I finish school.

patogordo wrote:every college grade will count, so you won't have a 4.0

buckeye420 wrote:

patogordo wrote:every college grade will count, so you won't have a 4.0

Are you sure? I was told that sometimes colleges don't care at all because the 4.0 is what would go on their admittance statistics and that's all they really care about.

anyriotgirl wrote:Why don't you work as an engineer for a while (or at your family business) and see if you like it before spending three years of your life on law school? You're not obligated to go just because you crushed the LSAT (which, congrats btw)

buckeye420 wrote:

anyriotgirl wrote:Why don't you work as an engineer for a while (or at your family business) and see if you like it before spending three years of your life on law school? You're not obligated to go just because you crushed the LSAT (which, congrats btw)

I've known for a while that I wanted to do some sort of grad school because I want a higher pay potential that you just don't get with a bachelors. Part of me feels like I'm over the whole engineer/scientist thing and law actually interests me a bit.

And I should add that the family business is nothing special, why else would I be trying to do so much school lol? It's a bait shop/farmers market, and excuse my language but I'm to get as far away from that rednick shit as possible.

buckeye420 wrote:I'm a Chemical Engineering major, 4.0 at #12 school for the program. However, I went to another school my first 2 years and had a 3.7 there. The second school was not ranked very high, I think #80. Will the schools only look at my GPA from the school I graduated from?

Got a 173 on the LSAT

As for internships, I've worked 2 full-time semesters at a polymer plant. Worked part-time 2 semesters at CAS (the company that assigns patents to chemicals for the whole country). And I worked one more full-time semester at a fortune 500 company as an engineering intern. Also I have done research with professors, who would be more than willing to write my letters of recommendation, as would my bosses from any of my internships.

Extracurricular: I was vice-president of a club, and was a competing member on a team for an engineering competition that won 1st place year-to-year.

So here's the run down of my situation: I was turned on to the idea of becoming a patent lawyer by a friend of mine when he told me that to get certified by the BAR association you're required to have a bachelors in engineering or some other scientific field. That really interested me and I decided to take the LSAT and did pretty well on it, but now I'm not really sure what to do with it.

I'm not sure if I want to try to go to a T5 law school or not. On one hand it opens up a lot of opportunity, but I can probably get an extremely good scholarship to an in-state school for me, like Ohio State. How much does the cost investment of going to a T5 school really pay off compared to going somewhere cheaper like OSU for me? OSU is ranked #31 for law and the , does that really make it that much harder to get a job? What kind of salary difference do you think I'd be looking at? I'm not opposed to moving out of state for a job either, like moving to California or New York.

Also I'm pretty sure I'm going to do one of the joint M.B.A./J.D. programs. Are there any certain MBA's that employers look for more than others? If it doesn't even have that big of an impact that doesn't really change my decision to get the MBA as I plan on owning a few small buisinesses at some point in my life. In fact I'll be inheriting one right after I finish school.

MistakenGenius wrote:

buckeye420 wrote:
TLDR: Retake and ED UVA

dabigchina wrote:

MistakenGenius wrote:

buckeye420 wrote:
TLDR: Retake and ED UVA

Wat?

ilikebaseball wrote:Don't really get threads like this. Basically go to any law school you want or pursue your career in the engineering field. I feel like, with your credentials, you're smart enough to make this decision on your own. No one knows what you want, and either way win fucking win

patogordo wrote:

ilikebaseball wrote:Don't really get threads like this. Basically go to any law school you want or pursue your career in the engineering field. I feel like, with your credentials, you're smart enough to make this decision on your own. No one knows what you want, and either way win fucking win

sounds like you do get it

TheUnicornHunter wrote:

buckeye420 wrote:I'm a Chemical Engineering major, 4.0 at #12 school for the program. However, I went to another school my first 2 years and had a 3.7 there. The second school was not ranked very high, I think #80. Will the schools only look at my GPA from the school I graduated from?

Got a 173 on the LSAT

As for internships, I've worked 2 full-time semesters at a polymer plant. Worked part-time 2 semesters at CAS (the company that assigns patents to chemicals for the whole country). And I worked one more full-time semester at a fortune 500 company as an engineering intern. Also I have done research with professors, who would be more than willing to write my letters of recommendation, as would my bosses from any of my internships.

Extracurricular: I was vice-president of a club, and was a competing member on a team for an engineering competition that won 1st place year-to-year.

So here's the run down of my situation: I was turned on to the idea of becoming a patent lawyer by a friend of mine when he told me that to get certified by the BAR association you're required to have a bachelors in engineering or some other scientific field. That really interested me and I decided to take the LSAT and did pretty well on it, but now I'm not really sure what to do with it.

I'm not sure if I want to try to go to a T5 law school or not. On one hand it opens up a lot of opportunity, but I can probably get an extremely good scholarship to an in-state school for me, like Ohio State. How much does the cost investment of going to a T5 school really pay off compared to going somewhere cheaper like OSU for me? OSU is ranked #31 for law and the , does that really make it that much harder to get a job? What kind of salary difference do you think I'd be looking at? I'm not opposed to moving out of state for a job either, like moving to California or New York.

Also I'm pretty sure I'm going to do one of the joint M.B.A./J.D. programs. Are there any certain MBA's that employers look for more than others? YES.If it doesn't even have that big of an impact that doesn't really change my decision to get the MBA as I plan on owning a few small buisinesses at some point in my life. In fact I'll be inheriting one right after I finish school.

Go to a T14 for free. Cost benefit problem solved.