<p>I am currently a bit more than halfway done with a bach in business with a finance option and am planning on being finished by the end of next summer. I want to start law school immeadiately thereafter in the autumn of 2008. My question is, will the law schools that I am planning on applying to (UW, Boalt) look down on me because I'll be applying when I'm 18 and will be 19 when I start going there if admitted. I currently have a 3.75 GPA in college with no ec's and of course haven't taken the LSAT yet but am studying for it.</p>
<p>There were three 19-year-olds in my class at Boalt. (They're now they're in their mid-forties, so this info doesn't tell you much about today's admissions committees and their policies.)</p>
<p>Two of them were mature beyond their years. One of them was not.</p>
<p>Starting law school at 19 is like sprinting the the starting line of a marathon. It can be done, but what's the point? </p>
<p>Law school will be a lot more fun if you're old enough to have a couple of beers with your classmates. I think most people are well served by taking off a year or two between college and law school. That goes double for teenagers, in my hoary opinion.</p>
<p>As I often do, I completely agree with Greybeard here. </p>
<p>Another consideration is how employers might view hiring a 19 year old to be a law clerk/summer associate. I know that the hiring committee at my old law firm would have some serious reservations about the maturity and worldliness of someone so young. Use the wonderful opportunity that you have as a result of finishing college so young to travel or work (or both). Those experiences could potentially be a huge advantage to you in the law school admissions process, in your job search and in your life.</p>
<p>Perhaps consider graduate school? What was your major in college? You can always pursue a masters, or even a doctorate (obviously an enormous committement) over the next few years. If I had such a great opportunity, that's the route I'd take.</p>
<p>Well I am currently a business major with a finance option so graduate level study isn't really an option obviously since I don't have any years of work experience. As for traveling and enjoying the time off I'm not really into the idea of that and would rather jump into law school and try to reach a good level in a law firm at a young age (relatively of course, early 30's). I want to use a career in law as a stepping stone into a career in politics and I think that getting started early would help that out. Would law schools even take me seriously though?</p>
<p>Just to reiterate part of Sally's post, bear in mind that you shouldn't only worry about what law schools might think, but also about what potential employers might think.</p>
<p>Honestly, you will enter law school at 19 at 22, you will graduate and then You are racing through your life, and what for? Will it really benefit you in the long term? On a more serious note, you want to go into politics. I would like to point that most politicians are not spring chickens when they decided to run for elected offices. The younger is not the better. Instead, go work for sometime until your age group has caught up to you. At least, then, no one can question your worldliness and maturity.</p>