<p>I’m rather curious. If the admission gods (blessed be their name!) choose to smite you, what do you intend to do?</p>
<p>I am somewhat vested in this irrationality that we call the admissions process, but I don’t think I’ll actually be that fussed if the whole thing falls through. So, if your application was somehow viciously rejected by every single school you applied to (thus rendering all of your work for this application cycle worthless), how would you react?</p>
<p>Would you choose option 1 or option 2?
Apply some other cycle, hopefully after burnishing your credentials in some laudable task.</p>
<p>2) Curse the admission gods (blessed be their name!) and embark on an entirely new path.</p>
<p>For those of you still suffering hangover from the LSAT…
Please Completely Fill in Bubble 1 or Bubble 2
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)</p>
<p>Bluntly, do you have a back up life plan? And what is it?</p>
<p>I’ll go first in case you’re shy. And I’m 100 percent serious about what I’m about to say</p>
<p>If I don’t get into a top ten school, I will either…</p>
<p>A-return to the joyful, but impoverished life of a ski bum.
B-join the French Foreign Legion (because I want to learn French, gain dual citizenship, and learn to operate dangerous firearms)
C-spend a few months in a Buddhist monastery (monks have a unique perspective and fabulous sense of humor. at least in my experience)
D-finish my language studies and try to gain entrance to a Ph.D program.</p>
<p>Skiing is life. Everything else is extraneous.</p>
<p>This is a great thread and it’s a shame we’re all too caught up on chancing each other and asking the same stupid questions over and over again to take notice. </p>
<p>I personally want to pursue a JD/MBA joint program and if I learned that I was denied from law school, I would either…</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Continue in the MBA program and reapply to the school after working very very very hard during that cycle to do something that would make me stand out. </p></li>
<li><p>Pursue a PhD program in Economics instead and pick up teaching.</p></li>
<li><p>Drop the entire idea of graduate school all together. Study for the bar and take it on my own. Continue dreams of pursuing a career in politics.</p></li>
<li><p>Too soon to say? So much in life can change in just a few years and I don’t know where I’ll be.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>It’s good to know there’s someone else who can take a step back and consider other options. I like the honesty of 4 and I feel the same way. I am applying in the cycle after this, or perhaps the cycle after that. Law school is very much a long term prospect. I’m applying for TFA and I think I have a fairly good shot at landing a job. If I like teaching enough I might just bid the whole idea of law school a fond farewell.</p>
<p>The best lesson of life as a ski bum was learning just how little money and prestige actually mattered. I’m fairly set on public interest law, so I’ve limited my schools to programs with loan forgiveness programs. If law school doesn’t work out, then I’ll find some other way to serve the public good.</p>
<p>My profs want me to find a way to do grad school (I have two not so subtly hinting that I should pursue doctoral studies in their fields). If I could get into a doctoral program (the language requirements are killing me) I would probably run with it just for fun. I love the university setting and I like writing papers.</p>
<p>Come on…I know the silent majority must have interests outside the law. If this law cycle was closed to you, what would you do?</p>
<p>If I am unable to gain admission into a school that I would be willing to attend, which is more than just the T10, there are a few things that I am equally interested in.</p>
<p>Like….</p>
<p>1) Teaching.
2) Law Enforcement.
3) Coaching Figure Skating (there is a lot of money in this).
4) Moving to Alaska and working run-of-the-mill blue collar jobs.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure 1 or 2 will work out if law school doesn’t pan out.</p>
<p>Why Alaska? I’m honestly curious about your response on this. I have some buddies who lived in Alaska and they said it was different without being too enamored with it.</p>
<p>If blue collar jobs paid better, I don’t think I’d have left home. I like working with my hands and there’s nothing finer than working outdoors in the spring.</p>
<p>Just don’t go overboard like Christopher McCandless if you go back to the Last Frontier.</p>
<p>I worked in union and non-union manufacturing jobs, the take home was actually more for the non-union because there were no dues to pay. That was a rare situation though, the union disbanded the previous year. The wage is decent enough to live on (and raise a family if you’re frugal), but at the time all I could of was getting out and seeing the world.</p>