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Hello everyone,
I plan to apply to law school this fall but at the moment I'm going through a difficult time at work. The job isn't very glamorous, I'm an Operations Assistant at a Real Estate brokerage, but it pays the bills and is giving me networking opportunities as well as a Letter of Recommendation. With that said however, I've decided to quit this job because there's just too many problems and it's time to move on. However, I'm a little concerned when to quit because law schools dissect every part of your resume if you're a nontraditional law school applicant.
I reach the 2yr threshold in July and I'm more than capable of putting up with these problems til then. However, if I don't have to, I'll give them my 2 weeks and quit sooner.
So my question is: do law schools place a bigger emphasis on the number of years (an even 2yrs) that you've worked at a place or does it just not matter after you've crossed 1yr or 1.5yrs?
Maybe I'm overthinking this but I'm concerned that working less than 2yrs at this job will seem suspect and will weaken my application.
Please participate in the poll and/or let me know your thoughts.
Thank you
This isn't scientific or exact, but as an older person studying for the LSAT, I would like to share my own experience. I started studying for the LSAT around the age of 30 full time (4-6hrs per day x 4 days a week) and after about year I didn't feel ready so I put it off and went back to work. During the 2 years that I worked, I studied part time (1-3hrs per day x 3 days a week) and at the end of those 2 years I didn't feel ready so I went back to studying full time. To make a long story short, during the next 4 years, I repeated the same study schedule and I finally took the LSAT two months ago in June. In summary, I studied a total of 4yrs full time (2yrs, worked, then another 2yrs) and I studied part time for about 3 years.
I scored a high 150s on the LSAT but never broke the 160s as was my goal. During my time studying, I took a 7sage class, hired a Testmasters tutor, and also hired a 7sage tutor. I took about 12 full PTs, completed the 7sage course, and drilled old passages, games, and questions endlessly. I definitely think my age and time away from undergrad affected my LSAT mastery. I don't have any other explanation since I personally feel that I did more than enough work and practice to warrant a higher score. I tend to believe that if you put in the work and effort, you'll get to your goal, and that just didn't happen in my case. So, I don't want to discourage you from going all in on the LSAT, but other factors outside of studying affected my comprehension on this test. Kind of sucks.