Law School Prospects. Potential Pre-Law Student's Concerns...

<p>SC: there is nothing - nothing! - mandating that you must figure this out now. Neither either law or medicine, you can go to graduate school at any point after undergrad. Many pre-med students will do a post-bac for their required pre-med courses, or will take them over the summer. </p>

<p>My best advice is to not rush to figure it out. Both law school and medical school are a lifetime commitment: they cost so much that you will be in that field for your entire career. (Yes, there are some exceptions with lawyers, but it’s often not their first choice.) It is far better to spend a few years as an unemployed bum than to rush to either law or medical school and have made a mistake that you can never undo.</p>

<p>Also consider business school. </p>

<p>As to health law: one of my friends works in that field; she was in compliance for about five years before law school, and she now works with the hospital that she was at prior to law school. I know a lawyer on Wall Street who does health care law and financing, but I do not recall his exact career track. If you are interested in health care law, which is a lot of administrative and regulatory law, then work in hospital administration and then go to a law school that offers course work in it.</p>