<p>Environmental Law now at 14th in US.</p>
<p>For those that follow USNews ratings.</p>
<p>85% of FSU Law grads employed as attorneys at graduation; 98.9% employed as attorneys at 9 months after graduation.</p>
<p>which major is more profitable biochemistry or law?
My friend plans on going to FSU and is divided between the two.
What careers are available for biochemists?
Thamk you for the help.</p>
<p>Profitable? I'd suggest he/she follows their interest. All jobs get old, so you might as well do what interests you and gets you up in the morning. Especially if you think of how difficult a biochem degree is to earn or how hard it is to be accepted into a good law school.</p>
<p>I know some unemployed and under-employed attorneys, but no unemployed biochemists. With an undergraduate degree in biochemistry one could then enter medical school, if that is a goal or go to law school. That combination would be more unique, as biochemistry is not an easy course of study.</p>
<p>That idea of getting a minor in chemistry and then going to med school is certainly better.
Thank you for the suggestion.</p>
<p>I remember a quote from a senator who appeared on "The Apprentice" this week who mentioned.. "If you wake up on Monday mornings with this feeling in your stomach representing that you love your job, then you're in good shape" (or something similar to that)</p>
<p>That quote makes me think we need More Cowbell.</p>
<p>ive already met two biochem majors that are now changing their majors....to what, i dont know. they just didnt think they had it in them to want to continue learning it. the same thing is happening to people in my chinese class.</p>
<p>I'd read those rankings for FSU carefully if I were a prospective applicant. Most law students don't spend a lot of time specializing. You get the basics in the first two years; contracts, criminal law, torts, Constitutional Law. Not a lot of firms will hire a law grad on the basis of a single grade in a single course that isn't one of the foundation courses. The exception may be if you are the editor of the Environmental Law journal of something like that.</p>
<p>A skeptical reading of any broad ranking service rating is always warranted. </p>
<p>Including those ratings of other universities and professional programs.</p>
<p>You have some interesting posts, Lake Washington. What is your opinion of the overall tendency, especially of young people, to place great weight on rankings when selecting a school?</p>
<p>While you're cogitating on that question, here's what FSU posts about that #14 ranking:</p>
<p>Florida State's Environmental Law Program is the only Florida school in the top 20. This is the third of the past five years that the school has been ranked in the top 20 for environmental law. We rank ahead of programs at Yale University, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at Los Angeles and directly behind Duke University, the University of California at Berkeley and Georgetown University.</p>
<p>Commenting on the U.S. News rankings, Brian Leiter, the University of Texas professor who publishes the Educational Quality Rankings of U.S. Law Schools, said, "There are the obvious injustices from the standpoint of academic merit (i.e, actual faculty and student quality) in the overall rankings: Numerous schools are ranked too low..." He listed Florida State among the schools that fall into that category.</p>
<p>Beech - changing majors from difficult ones like chemistry is not unusual. In any field you will find a level sooner or later where those less committed look for alternatives. This is why finding and following your own passion works.</p>
<p>Prospective college applicants and their parents often place much too much emphasis on rankings, to the detriment of comfort. That is, kids don't ask themselves, "will xyz college be a good fit for me?" We have the good fortune in this country to have a great program of higher education, public and private, from coast to coast and in-between. Sure, the truly elite schools (and there are probably only about 20 of them) can provide a superior education. But as a wise Dean with Ivy League credentials once told me, the academic difference among schools that "rank" in the the top 40 or so is minimal and likely of no consequence at all, academically.</p>
<p>Florida State University School of Law may have advantages over Yale, etc because of the great (and obvious) interest by the government of Florida in supporting the health and biodiversity of the state's natural environment. Therefore, FSU Law may have more direct access to technical and $$$ assistance from the state for its environmental policies studies.</p>
<p>I find myself in agreement with you. </p>
<p>I think the ratings game now played so intensely by some universities has corrupted too many attitudes of professional educators and that of students and parents - especially in Florida. </p>
<p>This has now progressed to the point that people have a hard time finding a proper fit in a school; looking for an advantage that is not able to be realized.</p>
<p>"...looking for an advantage that is not able to be realized." Well said.</p>