Not sure if there's much more for me to offer given all the encouraging comments before me. But I'm also 28 and studying for the LSAT, so take heart, there are others, not just 22/23 year olds who plan on testing and indeed enrolling! Also, look up the demographic data that your target law schools have on their websites. Some offer a pretty comprehensive breakdown:
For instance, roughly 33% of the students who just matriculated at Columbia were 25+, and about 10% were 29+. That is, 33% of students were 25+ at the time of enrollment. So you're very much not alone. That's the hard data evidence.
In terms of personal anecdotes, I had similar concerns about my age (still do to some degree), and, truthfully, I suspect I would have had an easier time with studying and performed better on the exams if I were fresh from undergrad, but at the time this was not on my radar and it wasn't until several months ago that I realized that this is what I wanted to pursue. I could talk about circumstances, but ultimately the point is that nothing is perfect, and all we can do is try our best, work hard, and hope that it all works out in the end. I spent years performing at the peak of another big industry, and it took me time to figure out that I wanted to go into law. But we're here now, and lucky to know what we want to do now, and lucky to be surrounded by fellow test-takers and eventually fellow law school students who have taken time to figure things out.
Best of luck to you, you'll get to where you want to go in the end.
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Not sure if there's much more for me to offer given all the encouraging comments before me. But I'm also 28 and studying for the LSAT, so take heart, there are others, not just 22/23 year olds who plan on testing and indeed enrolling! Also, look up the demographic data that your target law schools have on their websites. Some offer a pretty comprehensive breakdown:
For instance, roughly 33% of the students who just matriculated at Columbia were 25+, and about 10% were 29+. That is, 33% of students were 25+ at the time of enrollment. So you're very much not alone. That's the hard data evidence.
In terms of personal anecdotes, I had similar concerns about my age (still do to some degree), and, truthfully, I suspect I would have had an easier time with studying and performed better on the exams if I were fresh from undergrad, but at the time this was not on my radar and it wasn't until several months ago that I realized that this is what I wanted to pursue. I could talk about circumstances, but ultimately the point is that nothing is perfect, and all we can do is try our best, work hard, and hope that it all works out in the end. I spent years performing at the peak of another big industry, and it took me time to figure out that I wanted to go into law. But we're here now, and lucky to know what we want to do now, and lucky to be surrounded by fellow test-takers and eventually fellow law school students who have taken time to figure things out.
Best of luck to you, you'll get to where you want to go in the end.