RE: Need advice for going to college
August 30, 2016 at 10:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2016 at 10:56 pm by bennyboy.)
(August 30, 2016 at 7:02 pm)Won2blv Wrote:(August 30, 2016 at 6:11 pm)Jenny A Wrote: No its not too late to go to college. But law school is a post graduate degree (I'm assuming you are in the U.S.), so if law school is the goal you are looking at seven years. Unlike grad school, you won't be able to work your way through law school either. You'll have to borrow and borrow and borrow. And the income of lawyers is declining while the cost of law school is going up. So no I would not recommend law to a 29 year old, I worry about 19 year olds considering law.
Yes I have a JD and practiced 10 years. Yes my hubby has a JD too and has been practicing for 30 years. We've done pretty well, but it doesn't look so great for new lawyers and hasn't for a decade.
How many credits per semester should I take on if I want to do my undergrad in less than 4 years? I have decent income at the moment. My business is busy May, June, July and December and extremely slow the other months. I know that after I get done with my undergrad I could probably put 20k a year towards law school. But I don't really want to make big bucks. I want to get involved with politics and some kind of advocacy work for either the environment or civil rights. I don't need a lot of money to be happy. I currently make 60k and feel very comfortable. Sorry for all the questions
Oh. If you have an income you're comfortable with, that changes everything. You'll have to check out the schedule of universities first, as I'm suspicious your busy time might be exam times. You should also actually go to some universities and talk to them about various options-- off-season testing, correspondence courses, etc. If you strike them as a mature person, you might find them fairly willing to accommodate some special requirements. Some universities like having mature students, and they understand about real life. Some may not care, I'm not sure.
And I'm not sure how it works where you are, but when I was in uni in Canada (a pretty long time ago now), law was a graduate degree. So you don't really need to worry about that for a few years anyway.
