if you believe a differenct between 80% and 99% will affect earning potential by $150k, you've got one uncomfortable reality ahead of you
UF's median LSAT is 161, a little above 80th percentile. Average starting salary at UF Law was $66,800, with about 84% of the graduation class employed with JD Advantage or Bar Passage Required.
Compare that to UChicagio, Columbia, Northwestern, Harvard, NYU, Stanford, Duke, UPenn, and UCB, all have median LSAT scores in the 95th - 99th percentile.
Average starting salary is 160k. Almost 100k over the average salary from a school who's median LSAT is in the 80th percentile.
Law is currently one of the worst fields to get into
Sure, if you go to a T2 school
unless you have a strong network in place and a seat at a law firm
Or a T14 JD
be comfortable making $10 - $15 an hour as a public defender
I'm going T14. I'll start in big law.
My friends who didn't have connections are struggling hard
Guarantee they weren't at a T14
With some research, it seems this is extremely common
For grads of regional schools. Obviously you didn't do very good research.