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Flame aside, is t14 law school worth it for the average polisci shithead?
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:20 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol seems like job market is shittttt for polisci bros (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725869) |
Date: November 19th, 2017 7:25 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Skinny Woman Cheaper route is do a 1 year masters in accounting then go big4. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725913) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:31 PM Author: pearly selfie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725970) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:31 PM Author: Know-it-all circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725974) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:38 PM Author: Razzmatazz salmon half-breed market by a mile. would do this in a heartbeat over t14. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726032) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:39 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol i have a friend who did accounting and big 4 and he was fucking miserable. made shit money too. like 45k in a big city (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726049) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:40 PM Author: Contagious Persian like anything. it ain't what it used to be. and even then it sucked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726059) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:41 PM Author: Razzmatazz salmon half-breed market accounting has an actual trajectory though and youre competing with way dumber people. you have actual job mobility and can move into industry in a way that you really cant in law. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726071) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:42 PM Author: Contagious Persian is automation going to pwn this profession? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726082) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:44 PM Author: Razzmatazz salmon half-breed market not any more than anything else (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726095) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:48 PM Author: Know-it-all circlehead CR - there are LOTS of jerbs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726141) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:43 PM Author: Sexy parlour patrolman cr, lmao at you low T fgts touting ACCOUTNING as a career (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726083) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:47 PM Author: Canary Corner Azn cr! last time I checked this was an ALPHA law board for LAWYERS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726125) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:47 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726130) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:49 PM Author: Razzmatazz salmon half-breed market theres no getting ahead quick in corporate america these days. we were only touting it as a strictly superior option to law school. youll literally be starting your third year of work when ls students are taking the fucking bar. law school is way too long and way too expensive for a couple years of biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726154) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:31 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Skinny Woman With a masters, entry level tax in big4 is prob around $70k. A little less for audit.
Masters at stttate U costs something like $30k and only takes 1 year as opposed to 3 for law school at $200k.
That's a swing of over $300k plus 2 years of career advancement. |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:46 PM Author: Irradiated rigpig school Then diaf from boredom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726122) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:32 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Skinny Woman depends. If doing audit or straight tax compliance. Yeah it's awful. If you get into a niche consulting group far less so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731818) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:40 PM Author: Sienna Glittery Juggernaut Ape LOL @ you thinking you'll just slide into a CFO position by the age of 35. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731276) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:43 PM Author: Canary Corner Azn xo career advice is about as good as its fitness advice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731290) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:34 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Skinny Woman When did I say that?
35 y/o big4 Manager/Senior Manager or if star, Director is making nice money with no student debt and is very marketable. |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 11:52 PM Author: out-of-control fragrant home twinkling uncleanness Enjoy spending 10 years turning spreadsheets and powerpoints to make what a 1st-year associate makes. A person with 100% LS debt and Biglaw catches up to and passes the accountants by age 30.
The only benefit to accounting is that you can always find a decent job in the field at a decent salary in any market. In law you can strike out completely coming out of school, or get layoff-pwned early in your career and fall all the way to shitlaw, or need to move to another city and not be able to find anything comparable. But there are always more spreadsheets waiting for you at a dead-end job in Duluth. |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:28 PM Author: Impertinent jade jap if you went into poli sci (esp at a non-top ug) you're already fucked for life so you might as well beats journalism at least |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:32 PM Author: Sexy parlour patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725979) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:45 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726106) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:52 PM Author: mahogany hominid immigrant sort of cr but iq will get them through...that being said most of these brehs/chicks are retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726175) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:30 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal low-t public bath MPA/MPP is better bet imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725955) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:31 PM Author: Impertinent jade jap what do you even do with those degrees? I always thought they were just useless resume fluff for rich shrews (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725966) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:43 PM Author: Razzmatazz salmon half-breed market dear god no. wtf are you talking about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726085) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:44 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726097) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:51 PM Author: mahogany hominid immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726168) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 11:54 PM Author: Lascivious Halford Property anything other than princeton is almost non-funded humanities MA level flame, except MPP students harbor the illusion of feeling justified because their degrees are "practical" (?)
perhaps not coincidentally, the xo grad board's biggest business used to be MPP admissions. |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:30 PM Author: bronze titillating gaming laptop therapy No (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725959) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:30 PM Author: Heady copper locale Yes. Ls is cr only for pssh's (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725963) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:31 PM Author: pearly selfie BSCS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725972) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:33 PM Author: Talented Flirting Degenerate *T5 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725988) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 9:51 PM Author: zippy aromatic travel guidebook space (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34727215) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:33 PM Author: Canary Corner Azn I think a lot of them go into UG expecting to go to LS after (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725990) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:34 PM Author: Appetizing quadroon kitty no, go to ocs, get injured, win va injured vet contracts for companies that front you as a board member for kickbacks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34725996) |
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Date: November 21st, 2017 7:38 AM Author: Shivering Pisswyrm Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34737814) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:39 PM Author: Razzmatazz salmon half-breed market no. accounting maybe. computers if you can. pa/male nursing. or become a cop or join the military. this is not fucking flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726044) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:40 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol loled @ male nursing. seems chill but lmao. prole and no $ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726063) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:42 PM Author: Razzmatazz salmon half-breed market yeah i wouldnt do it either but if youre a sensative chad it could be cr. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726079) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:44 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol seems like youd work with a ton of hot female nurses
but "work" would be changing boomer's diapers |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 11:54 PM Author: apoplectic area codepig "no $" nigga, nurses make fuckin BANK on dat OT tip |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:51 PM Author: trip bistre pozpig I went to a T10 and had a "good" outcome (biglaw -> solo, probably will make $225k this year) and hate being a lawyer. Running my own business is 180 and I'd never go back to a firm, but to be happy "practicing law" requires a very specific type of personality. If you have it, then it's not a bad outcome for a polisci shithead.
Not sure why people are suggesting accounting though. That is one of the few white collar jobs that I think would be worse and more soul sucking than law. |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 8:11 PM Author: Razzmatazz salmon half-breed market when did you graduate? thats relevant too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726373) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:54 PM Author: Canary Corner Azn COMPLIANTS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726194) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:57 PM Author: Sexy parlour patrolman not for the avg person, no, but for the smart ones that can knock out a few years of biglaw then 300k 9-5 in house, yes
only applies to non-autists which is why most of xo fails |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:58 PM Author: Contagious Persian do you have to be a good schmoozer to do well in law? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726231) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:59 PM Author: Sexy parlour patrolman no, you just have to not be a complete arm flapping autist
the schmoozers become rainmakers |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 9:54 PM Author: Vigorous Shrine Yeah everyone I know in biglaw is the exact opposite of an autist - attractive, alpha, and 180 all around. Most xoers aren't nearly alpha enough for biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34727229) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 10:23 PM Author: Know-it-all circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34727535) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:50 AM Author: Sexy parlour patrolman (logic master man ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34730354) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:50 AM Author: Vigorous Shrine (Alpha biller) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34730361) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 8:01 PM Author: Canary Corner Azn lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34726273) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:17 AM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34729774) |
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Date: November 19th, 2017 10:18 PM Author: zippy aromatic travel guidebook space (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34727486) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:27 PM Author: Canary Corner Azn Law school is 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731127) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:29 PM Author: drab boyish station lawyers are the #1 profession for prescription drug abuse, depression, and alcoholism.
But yeah you'll make good money |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:30 PM Author: Canary Corner Azn There's a lot more self-selection going on than you think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731156) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:33 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731190) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:36 PM Author: drab boyish station entering LS students actually score above average for their cohort on mental health markers. LS destroys people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731225) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:38 PM Author: Fighting coiffed pistol (unemployed GW Law grad) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731245) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:52 PM Author: exciting national affirmative action At this point I don’t think any law school is worth paying full price for. Loans and interest will eat up almost the first three years of your after-tax income, even assuming best case scenario.
If you have no particular interest in law (like most people in law school who wind up there through inertia), I would only recommend if you can get into T5 school and leverage that into a significant scholly at a lower T14. If you can go to Duke/UVA/NW, pay off your loans in Year 1 of biglaw, then start banking and make an earlier exit, that’s a pretty good result, especially given that law school can be a three year vacation.
Even that scenario realies on a lot of assumptions, however, main one being you do passably 1L and aren’t a weirdo, such that you are reasonably likely to get some v100 job. |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:54 PM Author: Canary Corner Azn in your opinion what % of people going to LS have an actual interest in law? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731379) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:58 PM Author: startling blue hunting ground 15%
Edit to clarify after reading below: 15% have interest in "the law" - this includes "international immigration human rights humanitarian law" like Amal Clooney and also the uptight conservative bros who wear blue blazers to class and argue with the conlaw prof. I agree with the 75% estimate below if you also include people who just want office jobs and are there as a job queue without some deep interest in being lawyers. |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:00 PM Author: exciting national affirmative action With an interest in their own idealized and incorrect vision of what practicing law is like? 75%, with intensity of interest varying.
There are a hardcore few who know what it is like through family or previous work, and for some reason have a genuine clear-eyed interest, and those are probably five percent or less. |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:24 PM Author: drab boyish station cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731723) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 12:56 PM Author: sepia gas station acct masters--> big 4--> mba--> ib or consulting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731400) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:00 PM Author: rusted concupiscible tank lol accountants make like 60k. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731448) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:35 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy indian lodge fortuitous meteor What’s your LSAT? If over 1500, sure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34731860) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 11:33 PM Author: zippy aromatic travel guidebook space You can cop CCN with a 166 and a 3.8.
So yes |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 11:55 PM Author: comical deep set not if you pay sticker. sticker is $300K at 7.5% interest. you won't breakeven in biglaw until your 6th year, and that's if you eat ramen and have roommates. by then you'll be in your mid 30's and have ruined any ability to have a family or normal life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34736663) |
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Date: November 21st, 2017 7:27 AM Author: Canary Corner Azn What do you mean by break even (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802813&forum_id=2#34737784) |