Please correct me if I'm mistaken
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:49 pm
I'm poor at math and numerical analysis so I hope I am just reading the reality of the employment situation wrong, but I just recently crunched the numbers from the most recent two ABA reports from my schools I intend on applying to, namely SMU, UT, TTU, UH, and Baylor.
I knew that the market was generally not well, but I'm in North Texas, a great legal market. I believed and still want to believe the t14-or-bust mentality is an exaggeration of the prestige whores on the internet.
But after factoring in the total number of graduates from a given school and then counting only the number of people who got jobs at firms 11+, govt, clerkship, academic and the like, I feel I may have been too optimistic. I had assumed most people from any school would come out okay, even if not in the job they want or with a lot of debt. That's fine with me, I was and am still willing to pay any price to practice law. But that means I want to actually use my degree in the future.
It seems that the numbers suggest that at UT there is only a 75% chance of that happening, for SMU it seems like if you're below median you're dead in the water. And its 47-39% at all the others.
Please tell me there is something I am missing, or is it actually as bad as people say?
I knew that the market was generally not well, but I'm in North Texas, a great legal market. I believed and still want to believe the t14-or-bust mentality is an exaggeration of the prestige whores on the internet.
But after factoring in the total number of graduates from a given school and then counting only the number of people who got jobs at firms 11+, govt, clerkship, academic and the like, I feel I may have been too optimistic. I had assumed most people from any school would come out okay, even if not in the job they want or with a lot of debt. That's fine with me, I was and am still willing to pay any price to practice law. But that means I want to actually use my degree in the future.
It seems that the numbers suggest that at UT there is only a 75% chance of that happening, for SMU it seems like if you're below median you're dead in the water. And its 47-39% at all the others.
Please tell me there is something I am missing, or is it actually as bad as people say?