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<p>I don’t necessarily disagree with you. However, when you are being interviewed along with hundreds of your classmates and hiring committees need to make quick judgments about you after you have met with one interviewer on campus for no more than 15 minutes, the assumption will often be that one who is younger is less mature, experienced and knowledgable, whether or not that is, in fact, accurate. Often, in fact, students who finish college in three years (or less) have had fewer jobs/internships, leadership roles in in-school and out-of-school organizations and less opportunity, generally, to demonstrate the skills that that individual may have and that law firms desire, when compared to those who take four years to finish college or who work for a few years before going to law school. </p>
<p>Please note that not everyone spends their parents’ money in college. Plenty of us paid our own way. Perhaps if one explained in a job interview that the reason why he or she finished college in three years was because he or she was paying the full bill by themselves through loans and working at two part-time jobs, that might win back some points.</p>