Lies they told me about Law School

A few observations in what may become multi-part series

1) "we're not as competitive as (insert peer schools, better ranked schools, lesser ranked schools, other law schools in general)"

Ha. Haha! Ok, maybe this was true when the job market was better? I don't know, I wasn't there. This whole "no competition" thing is BULLSHIT. Well, I know for a fact it's bullshit here, I don't know how bad it is at other schools but I'm willing to venture a guess that it's bullshit there to.

Ok, so no one (at least... not here) is going to be tearing pages out of the library books (come to think of it, I haven't uh, needed any library books. Everything is on Westlaw/Lexis)

People, I'm sure, will help you out if you miss a day of class and need notes or if your computer crashes and you lose your outlines etc etc. That's not what I'm talking about. There's no overtly cutthroat shit.

But, there's this vibe of competition because, well, there's got to be half the class below the median and half the class above the media (I suppose some people have to be at the median, but I'm trying to make this easy). The people below the median are going to, generally speaking, have a harder time finding jobs than those at the top. Furthermore, those at or close to the very top will have an even easier time.

Most people have invested a lot of time and money into going to law school They may have moved their families, their significant others, etc with them. People are going to be serious about this stuff. It's not like undergrad AT ALL. Please don't let the admissions people fool you. It will be competitive whether you choose to compete or not. Not officially ranking you isn't going to change that at all.

2) A law degree is really versatile
Yeah, for being a lawyer. You can do a  lot of different kinds of law! For other things, well, you don't exactly need the law degree, but it'd probably be useful for showing them that you're an idiot who went to law school and then didn't do anything law related. I'm sure there's exceptions to this, but, come on, what kind of job is there that doesn't require a JD where you'd think to yourself, "Gosh, I could get this job without a JD, but I really want to drop 150k on a superfluous degree to make myself more qualified...?"

Psh.