32岁的单身女生,准备申请JD,贷款读,不知以35岁的高龄毕业后能在美国找到好的工作吗?

Irena

   
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Elsaxw's words are encouraging. But it is good to have a dose of reality when trying to pursue a degree or a career.

It is extremely difficult to get into a Top 10 JD program. LSAT is a killer. You can forget a Top 10 program UNLESS you can score a minimum of 168.

Even if you manage to get in, it is difficult to get a loan to cover 3 years of tuition and living expenses. The work is highly stressful. Always remember, you are a 32 years old Chinese woman competing mostly against 23-25 year old Americans! You MUST worker harder than most of them to get good enough grades to get a good job after graduation. Otherwise, you will be a 35 year old woman with $150,000 in debt and no job. A very bad position to be in.

Even if you get a big firm job paying you $125k a year, your life will still be very difficult and stressful. You can expect to work 70-80 hours a week in a typical New York City firm. Again, you are competing against Americans, mostly men, who are only 25-26 years old. Can you do it? Do you WANT to do it?

I am not against optimistic views. But America is not fairytale land, and you are not fairytale princesses. Think before you leap.

Irena

Elsaxw's words are encouraging. But it is good to have a dose of reality when trying to pursue a degree or a career.

It is extremely difficult to get into a Top 10 JD program. LSAT is a killer. You can forget about a Top 10 program UNLESS you can score a minimum of 168.

Even if you manage to get in a top 10 JD program, it is difficult to get a loan to cover 3 years of tuition and living expenses. The work is highly stressful. Always remember, you are a 32 years old Chinese woman competing mostly against 23-25 year old Americans! You MUST worker harder than most of them to get good enough grades to get a good job after graduation. Otherwise, you will be a 35 year old woman with $150,000 in debt and no job. A very bad position to be in.

If you get into a JD program that's not in the top 10, your grades become even more important. Do you have the willpower to compete for top 10% grades?

Even if you get a big firm job paying you $125k a year, your life will still be very difficult and stressful. You can expect to work 70-80 hours a week in a typical New York City firm. Again, you are competing against Americans, mostly men, who are only 25-26 years old. Can you do it? Do you WANT to do it?

I am not against optimistic views. But America is not fairytale land, and you are not fairytale princesses. Think before you leap.

Irena

About "supreme court justices who are nominated to the bench at 50" It's like saying "it is not too late to go for a MBA at 65, because people become CEOs at 65."

Those people graduated with JD from Harvard or Yale at 25. They were lawyers and judges all their lives before they became Supreme Court justices.

与大部分中国学生没有可比性

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Irena

木馨的建议很值得楼主参考.

skyee

There once were ntional poll conducted in France which asked if time went back to sixty years ago, what you would do agian.  60% of elder people say they would study and pursue their dream and they regreted they hadn't.

I'll always remember what you said above and never give up pursuing my dream.  

frank20051107

不太理解！

mikewzhang

I totally agree with 木馨 and Irena's posting. America is by no means a fairytale land.

nidm

其实我也同意:"木馨 and Irena's posting". 比较中肯和实际.

不过,我还是在准备LSAT,目标170,计划32的时候开始读LAW( 如果能够进TOP14的话.)

路是自己走的. 其实不管做怎样的选择,三十年之后都会有所遗憾的.

但是,最可怕的是不做选择.



-- 一个30+的"老男人"...

Irena

另外,楼主的英语程度,大学GPA,LSAT成绩(或模拟考试成绩),经济条件,在美国是否有绿卡, 都是非常有关的因素.

不知道细节的时候, 大家能给的advice乃泛泛而谈

Irena

冒着被MM驳斥的危险...

适合读法律的年龄是男女有别的.在这里看到的TOP 14大陆男生, 一半是三十岁和以上的. 可是, 女生连过26岁的都不多见,而且大多是有家庭,老公事业成功稳定的.