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With the employment situation crippled, it is more vital than ever for prospective law students to meet the requirements for admission to a top-quality law school. Because of the collapse of the overall economy, law schools are seeing a tsunami of prospective students.

Law schools can be (and are) pickier about their various law school admission requirements than they have ever been in recent history.

Simply stated, America’s law schools are turning out armies of new lawyers faster than the economy needs them. Therefore, the job market is saturated on a good day. And this is a horrible day.

When I graduated, during the late 1990s stock boom, which was a incredible day, the average starting salary for members of my class in computer engineering was $50,000.00. The median lawyer in Texas was, at the time, bringing home $45,000.00, and this median of lawyer salaries was taken across all ages and levels of seasoning. So, there was some real risk that I was about to spend 3 years of my life and a small fortune for a graduate diploma that was less valuable than the undergraduate degree that I already had. Fully a third of the licensed attorneys in Texas do something other than practice law. There just isn’t enough legal work to go around.

For every kid making $165,000.00 a year straight out of school, there are 10 wet-behind-the-ears lawyers making $40,000.00 per year. Now, if you have an political science degree, you may here $40,000 per year and think, “Wow, that’s a huge step up!” But wait, that $40,000 per year is after you sink $100k in loans and lose the opportunity to make a respectable wage during the years that you are in law school. Going $100k into debt for a $40k/year job is not a good decision. You don’t need a finance degree to see that this one is backward.

The law is two professions. If you’re not lucky, you will end up coming out of school to a $40k/year job (or none at all) with $100k in debt.

The difference between being lucky and turning your life into a living Hell is going to a respected law school. The difference between getting into a respected law school and having to accept a crappy law school is your scoring relative to the law school admission requirements. They are:

* Your LSAT score
* Your Undergraduate GPA
* Your Race
* Your Admissions Essays
* Your Letters of Recommendation
* Your Resume (this means everything else)
* Your string pulls

Now, there are some of these factors that you can, in fact, control. And there are some that you can’t manipulate. Your goal needs to be to act on the factors that you can adjust in a way that changes the outcome.

For advice on how to do just that, you’re welcome to visit: http://www.lawschoolrequiements.org.

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