2 B+ and an A- at William and Mary. around top 30-35%.
I am a bit disturbed by this post. Do you mean to tell us that you only went to law school because you assumed you would do better than top 30%?
No, that’s assuming a bit much. I just want to know if it is going to continue to be a worthwhile investment. I enjoy law school a good deal.
Why’d you go to law school in the first place. What kind of debt will graduate with. How much will finishing the semester cost?
If you were focused on biglaw you might start thinking about it but I wouldn’t yet.
Explain.
$60k debt upon graduation.
see the part that you didn’t quote.
Also, not necessarily focused on big law. If MidLaw exists, I would gladly do that.
Well if you like law school and still want to practice law, why would you drop out? 60K isn’t a whole lot. I’d gun because if you can get top 20% you’ve got a shot at biglawl. Otherwise, you’ll be doing shit law, but that’s what you signed up for when you attended a TTT. But you were smart enough to do it at low debt.
Just do nYU LLM.
define shit law.
~40-60K a year at a smaller firm.
is the placement that bad at your school?
as someone who did not do that well in her first year (but did manage to swing honors in the end), I would cry for joy if I had made the top 1/3 in the first year
Because you like it and have only 60k in debt I would say its worth sticking it out at least until the end of the year and then rethink.
Given at W&M places ~15% of its graduates in NLJ250 firms (http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202483173162&slreturn=1), being top third probably makes it a decent long-shot to get biglaw or midlaw. I imagine if OP is a good interviewer, hustles, and has some geographic diversity/WE, he might have a reasonable long-shot if he is not picky.
i had the exact same grades at a different t30 after the first semester, got straight As second semester, and finished at the top of my section (at least top 5%). SA this summer at v10 firm and had a v5, 1 other v10, and 4 v25 offers. Dropping out after the first semester with those grades is absurd.
uhhhh…
OK, I quoted the whole statement.
Why don’t you tell us why you thought it was a good investment when you started, and why you now are doubting that.
The answer may be that you thought it was a good idea to bet one semester’s tuition on the possibility of finishing top 10%. Is that the answer?
Exactly. WTF kinda grade inflation is this?
A 3.44 seems like a pretty reasonable top-third GPA to me.
OP, maybe you should talk a little more about what it is you’re afraid of. You won’t be a shoo-in to get a job, biglaw or otherwise, but your debt is relatively low and you’ll have opportunities. Whether that’s good enough is a personal choice, but it’s about as good as you could have expected going in at William and Mary, so, kind of confused what you think has changed.
What? At most schools a 3.4 GPA puts you in the top 1/3? Actually doesn’t it do that at UT?