What if You Fail In Law School?

Even very smart people, including some with high LSAT scores, can fail at law school.

Imagine starting your first day of law school, bright and ambitious. You've done the reading and tried your best to write a brief summarizing the case, but when the teacher calls on you, you can only vaguely remember reading about what you've been asked, and your brief isn't any help because you didn't focus on the right information (or facts) in your summary.

You vow to do better, and you do, but now it's a few weeks into the semester and you've fallen behind on your reading. So you have good case briefs, but you're getting them done too late for the class so you still can't answer the questions when you're called on.

When the first test comes around, the early case briefs and a few you didn't have time to do are still holding you back. Unfortunately, you get a C instead of the A you'd hoped for.

Then you find out that some of your friends have been accepted to write on the Law Review, the student-run newspaper. But you never even thought of applying for that—and even if you had, that C would have blocked your way.

The first summer, the same friends on the law review have parlayed that experience into an internship and, while you enjoy your summer vacation, they're working hard.

It's true that only a small portion of law students can be on the law review, and many get internships their first summer. But this portion—those who knew what to do from the start—are the ones almost guaranteed the best jobs when they graduate, while the rest have to compete for the fewer, lower-paying jobs that are left over.

We've heard from many students to whom this has happened, which is what inspired us to design this dual-purpose LSAT/ Law School Prep course. Being prepared for law school is a huge advantage.