Get Better Grades and Work Less By Attending Your Safety Law School
If you want to attend law school, but you don’t want to put in the hard work required to be successful, you have one option that The Princeton Review doesn’t tell you about: Attend your “safety” school.
When trying to decide where to apply, find out what the school’s top quartile LSAT score is. If your score is in the top quartile, you should consider attending this school. Like it or not, the LSAT measures your intelligence. If you are in the top quartile at a particular school, you start off being smarter than at least 75% of your classmates. That goes a long way towards a high class rank, and thus, law school success.
How do I know? Because I am currently attending my safety school. I ended up here because I liked the location and they threw a 50% scholarship at me. I quickly figured out the law school game, and by the second semester of my first year, I was doing significantly less work than my classmates. Now, as a 2L, I’m ranked in the top 15% of my class, and I only spend about 2 hours per week on school stuff.
So, take it from me: If you want to do well in law school without having to expend too much energy, attend your safety school.
[thanks to Barely Legal]
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Warning: This is a stupid idea. Go to the best school you can get into. Law firm recruiters are not stupid and they know the difference between an A from harvard and an A from Thomas M. Cooley.
Source: I did this and now I can’t find a job. I went from having a GPA/LSAT of 3.96/168 to the point where I’m wondering if I should just drop out now. Ended up in the top 30% of my class, but it apparently wasn’t enough.
I’m just curious- where di you attend? I went from 3.65/166, so lower than you, and now I’m in a top 60 law school (I am So much happier here than I ever anticipated). The schools 25/50/75 percentiles are 157/160/163 …. I didnt choose my backup school over elsewhere- I was stupid as heck and submitted my applications on Jan 31at, maybe I should have reapplied the next cycle but I am glad- at the moment- that I didnt.