I graduated with BS in electrical engineering earlier this year in March from a decent, large state university on the west coast. My GPA is 3.35 and I have had a 6 month technical internship at a small software company. So far, I have not had much luck with employment, but that is not the reason I want to go to law school. I’ve hated engineering while I studied it, and I think the idea of working as an engineer is slowly eating away at my mind.
I have thought long and hard about this, and I’m pretty sure I want to go to law school, even if I get employed as an engineer in the near future. There are obviously more than one way to go about this. I can just start studying for LSAT and apply next year. I can also get a job (engineering or non-engineering), start saving money, build up my application, study in the mean time, and then apply when I feel like I’m ready - I’m just throwing some ideas out.
Some problems I can foresee:
- I have not maintained, nor have I ever tried to create, any relationship with my professors in my undergraduate years and getting good letters of recommendation will be rather difficult.
- I have thought about switching away from engineering for a while now, but I fear the admissions team may find my seemingly sudden change of heart troubling.
- My GPA is mediocre.
In short, I want to go to law school and I want to do it right. I don’t mind spending a few years to get there. I’d like some advice on the “problems” I listed above especially, but would appreciate any advice in general.
any job is will work for LS apps.
Study your butt off for the LSAT, and aim for 17x.
Good luck.
@poopybutthole: Judging by your username, the very first problem I see is a lack of maturity. Lawyers will not be impressed with that. I recommend a few years of job experience, preferably something legal. I’m sure plenty of IP firms would be happy to bring in an engineering major in some capacity. You should look into that.
Get a better username; yours shows a lack of seriousness yet a desire to offend.
So come back once you’ve fixed that.
I think per the terms of service, the OP is stuck with that name… unfortunate as it is. Ignoring that for the moment, law school is very expensive. I say work a couple of years and save.
Well, you should change your username, and, considering that you only have one post, it gets a lot more easy.
Anyway, I would like to ask for advice here, for my situation too.
So, I’m starting Civil Engineering next year, and I’m a sophomore in Accounting, and I’m searching for Undergrad courses which could help me as of law studies… The fact is, that, I don’t want to get exactly into law school…
I’d rather like Economics because it isn’t always jurisdiction bound, but I don’t really know how much it does affect me, because, I really want to know more about legal issues for business, I already run my own company, and I intend to open other, or even extend them around the country…So, the jurisdiction differences and laws may, or may not turn into a problem…
And, with all that, I still want to know, if it’s really needed to apply for an upper scale institution.
Choice of username on an anonymous website is completely irrelevant to professional school admissions. COMPLETELY.
@OneMoreGrad, if you run a business and want to know about legal issues for business: hire a lawyer. That’s much more effective than learning the law yourself. Each jurisdiction has so many nit-picky requirements that one lawyer won’t be an expert in more than the handful of jurisdictions where s/he is qualified to practice, and it takes years of experience to get up to speed anyhow. So you may want to take a “Legal Issues for Business” or “Business Law” class that is aimed at non-lawyers, but other than that, focus on your business and hire an expert to handle the legal side. I’m a lawyer but when I have a legal issue that’s outside of my area of expertise (which is a niche area in one state), I always hire someone.