How could I forget about my brother-in-law’s path to law school?
He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and was also ROTC. He was accepted into the Navy’s nuclear power school, and upon graduating there as an officer, served his time as a nuclear engineer on submarines (2 years, I think). He then applied for the JAG program, which he didn’t get but he did go to law school (Albany, so not T14 or even T50 probably) and landed his first job as a patent attorney at one of the biggest patent firms in the country (did that for a few years and then left to run the family business).
My oldest daughter, although no law school aspirations (which is a shame because she would be a fabulous litigator!) applied to her colleges as a biology major with intentions of going to med school. Figured out during senior year of HS that she did not love or even like biology, or science in general, and changed her major to business at college orientation. She now works as an IB analyst. Funny how they can change.