Meet a first-generation attorney with $347,000 in student debt who can't land a job and says 'there are a substantial number of people like me that are being forgotten'

Good segue. There's definitely non-traditional paths out there for paying less and/or getting a good name on your degree. As you pointed out, a decent LSAT can get significant discounts at less prestigious schools. Also, transfers. I was on the phone with an attorney at work years ago and I noticed she went to HLS, so I asked how she did on the LSAT (LSAT tutoring seems like a cool side gig but you need a 170+ to get a job). She said she did poorly, went to Barry or wherever for a year, got good grades, and then transferred. Apparently law schools regard the LSAT as the standard predictor of law school performance because for most applicants, that's all they've got; in the case of a transfer applicant, the applicant has the best predictor possible: actual law school performance.

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