Pre-law Advising at Swarthmore

PBailey
Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:16:01 +0000

I was reading this post (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1059914039-post91.html) when this caught my eye.


career services is abysmal, ABYSMAL. the erecruiting website has an incredibly crappy selection of jobs, and there aren’t really that many companies that come on campus. i’m not sure if gigi simeone is associated with the career services office, but she’s even worse - she coordinates law school applications (and i think med school applications too). one former classmate who’s about to graduate from stanford law contacted her with the idea that he could come back to campus to give a presentation for stanford. she grudgingly accepted, even though “no one from swarthmore could get into stanford law.” there are, i think, five swatties in my friend’s graduating class. i have a friend who left her office in tears after talking to her about med school applications - a year later, she was accepted into nyu’s md/phd program. there’s a weird tendency to discourage future plans like that.


I’m very interested in Swarthmore (either first/second choice, maybe ED), but I’m also interested in going to law school. The Swarthmore website mentions that 9% of Swarthmore alumni have a law degree ([Swarthmore College :: Pre-Law Advising :: Guide to Pre-Law Studies](Guide to Pre-Law Studies :: Pre-Law Advising :: Swarthmore College)) so things can’t be that bad can it?