<p>I think that many people here are reading too much into the statistics about jobs before law school. Yes, I think it can be a check mark that places like HLS uses to distinguish among applicants. However, there is little doubt in my mind that work experience won’t overcome lower LSATs or GPAs unless it is extraordinary. Even then, I think that it would only be a very small marginal factor. Again, work experience isn’t a factor in the rankings or ratings,which law schools live and die by. </p>