Applications down 20% in one year and 38% since 2010. Yowza. I suppose people are catching on that the world doesn't need any more bad/unhappy lawyers (it can always use good ones). Buyers beware:
The upshot of all this is that unless you're graduating from a truly top program -- and then, only if you graduate reasonably high in your class -- going to law school has turned into professional Russian Roulette. If it works out, you survive to pay off a truly enormous debt burden. If you don't make it on the job market, you've just spent three valuable years of your life sweating through deadening lectures and high-stakes finals for nothing, probably consigning yourself to a quarter-century loan payments the process.
Boy...this sounds lousy. People should only go to law school if they really love the study and/or practice of law. Both is even more preferable.
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