Help please. I need career advice. I’m interested in Law/Entertainment?
have always maintained excellent grades. I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Since then, I took the LSAT 3 times and didn’t receive the score I know I can achieve and didn’t get into where I applied. I took prep courses. Now, I have a career at a well-known law firm in Chicago. My goal is to go to law school and become an entertainment lawyer. The thing is, once you take the LSAT three times you have to wait another 5 years before retaking it. By that time, I want my career established and I don’t want to be in my 30′s in school. I am now 23 and ready for a career. So my law school options seem to not exist anymore.
Now, what other career should I pursue? I was thinking of getting my Paralegal Certificate and then applying to business school. I also want a Masters, but in what? I am so confused and not used to not getting through with flying colors. I want to go to school while I am still young.
All advice is appreciated.
The best career advice I can give you is to do what you love. That is probably the best recipe for success, even if it means selling ice cream (or whatever).
If you really love law, the door isn’t closed yet because you are incorrect about how many times you can take the LSAT. The rule works like this: you can only take the LSAT three times in any TWO year period. So, as soon as your first LSAT score is two years old, you can take the test again. I think you may have gotten confused with the five year thing because your LSAT scores begin to fall off your "permanent" record after five years. But, you aren’t precluded from taking the LSAT more than three times in five years. So, if you really want to go to law school and need a higher LSAT score, you still have a shot.
And, in regards to the writer above me, chances are that when you graduate in four years or so the economy will be in a completely different place than it is now.
Good luck!
