Has anyone on here taken the Lsats?

**urbanbody** · 01-29-2010, 07:01 PM

Im gonna move onto the next part of my life and hit law school. Has anyone taken the Lsats and if so what prep classes did you take?

***D7M*** · 01-29-2010, 07:06 PM

yah I took them.

I forget what prep course I used, it was a bunch of blue books (I think) that a friend had given me.

Hold on, let me go check.....

**MuscleScience** · 01-29-2010, 07:09 PM

I took the MCAT...dont think that will help you though, sorry.

**urbanbody** · 01-29-2010, 11:36 PM

From what i've researched Kaplan has the best prep class for this.

**urbanbody** · 01-29-2010, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by D7M

yah I took them.

I forget what prep course I used, it was a bunch of blue books (I think) that a friend had given me.

Hold on, let me go check.....

Was it hard? And did you do well enough for law school?

***D7M*** · 01-30-2010, 08:22 AM

I looked last night, but couldn't find those books, though I'm pretty sure it was a Kaplan course.

It wasn't easy, but it wasn't impossible either. If you give yourself enough prep time, you don't have anything to worry about.

I did pretty decent on them, but in the end I decided not to go to law school.

**thegodfather** · 01-30-2010, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by urbanbody

Was it hard? And did you do well enough for law school?

I'll tell you what kept me from going to law school. The Bar association will accredit any Tom, Dick, and Harry to start a law school and does not put any controls into place on the amount of lawyers they graduate each year. By comparison, the ABA graduates around 45,000 lawyers per year, whereas the American Medical Association has kept a relatively strict stranglehold on the number of doctors graduated each year at 17,500. Law is a profession that a person can practice well into their 60s, so that means that the length of time a person stays in the profession is longer than most.

If you, for instance plan to earn 6 figures out of school than you will need to attend a top 12 school, of which 8 of them will be Ivies, which even a stellar applicant has a chance of hell freezing over before that happens. More reasonable would be getting into a top 25 school, but even then you must be a stellar applicant and it is STILL a crapshoot. The majority of people will fall into going into a Tier 2 school, which means their odds of practicing in "Big Law" are very slim unless they write for the law journal while they are in law school and are in the top 1% of their class. Law is a profession where pedigree is highly sought after, and many practices higher only alumni from the schools the partners in the firm graduated from. This is unlike some other professions where it only matters that you have X letters behind your name (Like M.D.) and your knowledge will be relatively the same.

The median income of lawyers in the United States is approximately $60,000 per year. And while this might seem like good money to some people, it is horrible if you take into account the enormous debt load a person accrues by going to school for a minimum of 7 years. Do some research on the profession, and you will find literally THOUSANDS of law grads who are working at restaurants waiting tables because they cannot get jobs to save their lives. And you are talking to someone who had a pretty good shot at going to a top 12-25. Now that is just my personal experience and a decision that I had to make when doing research on that as a future career. Now if you have a 3.7+ and feel you can pull a 170+ on the LSAT, then by all means, go for it, but it is still a risky proposition.