Information regarding Law Schools...

Greybeard
Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:11:32 +0000

The bad news is that most law schools factor in the disparity between grading standards in engineering programs and liberal arts programs than they should be.

The good news is for an electrical engineer who becomes a patent lawyer, the reputation of the law school attended matters far less than it does for all of those liberal arts grads.

My advice would be to study for the LSAT, then apply to a variety of schools, including many that statistically put you well in the running, and a bigger than usual number of long shots. Ariesathena will tell you that some schools think a 3.0 is a 3.0 is a 3.0, while a few assign more weight to “degree of difficulty.”

Best of luck. I’m a former history major, working in-house for a company that employs thousands of electrical engineers.