Guys, a few days ago, I wrote a piece about how it’s not too late to really evaluate whether or not you are making the right decision.
I’ll cut to the chase. You’re not making the right decision.
Attending an unaccredited law school is always a bad decision. Paying $30,000 per year in tuition alone for an unaccredited JD – and one from a school that explicitly “makes no representation to any applicant that it will be approved by the American Bar Association prior to the graduation of any matriculating student” makes this bad decision even worse. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to pay off that kind of debt, which will be well above six figures – maybe even close to $200,000 – by the time all your living expenses, bar review courses, interest, books, and other fees and charges are added on?
And do you have any idea how impossible it will be to pay off coming from an unproven, probably-unaccredited law school? Half of all law graduates today find no work as lawyers. There are twice as many grads as there are jobs. For schools at the bottom of the pile (which is where Indiana Tech is, and is likely to remain), the chances of ever working as a lawyer are dramatically reduced. With your unaccredited Indiana Tech JD, you stand a very good chance of never working as an attorney, but paying the same price for your JD as those students who attend some fine law schools.
Indiana Tech wanted an enrolment of 100 students. As of yesterday, there are 24. On the one hand, this makes me very happy – at least 76 people are seeing sense and being smart about their futures. But on the other hand, 24 clearly still don’t get it. You are one of those 24, who rank as some of the most willfully-blind, poorly-informed individuals living in a snowflake dream world who just don’t see how you will regret this decision for the rest of your lives. Some of the lower ABA-accredited law schools are begging for good applicants right now. Is Indiana Tech really the best you could do? Is law school even right for you? The school is not even open yet, and it’s already giving Cooley a run for its money in terms of being a punch line.
The scam isn’t some pretend scheme that we’ve made up. It’s not a group of disgruntled grads who failed because they were lazy. It’s a legitimate problem, recognized by many people, clearly documented and based on facts. And you 24 students are about to become its latest victims.
Why are you ignoring this? Do you still not get it? What parts of it do you still not understand, because maybe we need to be clearer?
I strongly urge you to read everything on this site, then on Inside the Law School Scam. Then read Nando’s work at Third Tier Reality. It’s all free, and it will take maybe a few hours to browse through in its entirety. Then read Paul Campos’ book, Don’t Go To Law School (Unless), and then read my book, Con Law.
No, I’ll go one step further than that. If you are one of those 24 students who have enrolled at Indiana Tech Law School, I will send you a copy of my book for free. You don’t even have to pay the $2.99 to download it from Amazon. It’s on me.
Look, at this point in time, you’re a mere $400 out of pocket. That’s the sum of the non-refundable deposits you’ve sent into Indiana Tech. Please, for your own sake, walk away. $400 lost now is far better than $200,000 lost over the next two decades, along with the countless opportunities you’ll miss out on because you’re in debt up to your eyeballs and branded as a lawyer. Leave the $400 on the table, write a quick email to the admissions dean, and walk away. Save law school for next year if you have to, and make sure you at least go to an accredited school. Rolling the dice for a $200,000 bet on law school is risky even at the best ABA-accredited law schools in the nation. Rolling the dice for a $200,000 bet on an unaccredited new law school where you will be “educated” by the most ridiculous bunch of academic misfits I’ve ever seen calling themselves a law faculty is insane.
You can do far better than this.
Anyone attending Indiana Tech this fall must want to be a lawyer really badly. Or perhaps just wants to be a really bad lawyer.
Charles Cooper is the author, along with Thane Messinger, of “Con Law: Avoiding...or Beating...the Scam of the Century (The Real Student's Guide to Law School and the Legal Profession)”, in addition to being the moderator at Nontradlaw.net and the author of “Later in Life Lawyers”. He can be contacted at charlescooperauthor@gmail.com.
I’ll cut to the chase. You’re not making the right decision.
Attending an unaccredited law school is always a bad decision. Paying $30,000 per year in tuition alone for an unaccredited JD – and one from a school that explicitly “makes no representation to any applicant that it will be approved by the American Bar Association prior to the graduation of any matriculating student” makes this bad decision even worse. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to pay off that kind of debt, which will be well above six figures – maybe even close to $200,000 – by the time all your living expenses, bar review courses, interest, books, and other fees and charges are added on?
And do you have any idea how impossible it will be to pay off coming from an unproven, probably-unaccredited law school? Half of all law graduates today find no work as lawyers. There are twice as many grads as there are jobs. For schools at the bottom of the pile (which is where Indiana Tech is, and is likely to remain), the chances of ever working as a lawyer are dramatically reduced. With your unaccredited Indiana Tech JD, you stand a very good chance of never working as an attorney, but paying the same price for your JD as those students who attend some fine law schools.
Indiana Tech wanted an enrolment of 100 students. As of yesterday, there are 24. On the one hand, this makes me very happy – at least 76 people are seeing sense and being smart about their futures. But on the other hand, 24 clearly still don’t get it. You are one of those 24, who rank as some of the most willfully-blind, poorly-informed individuals living in a snowflake dream world who just don’t see how you will regret this decision for the rest of your lives. Some of the lower ABA-accredited law schools are begging for good applicants right now. Is Indiana Tech really the best you could do? Is law school even right for you? The school is not even open yet, and it’s already giving Cooley a run for its money in terms of being a punch line.
The scam isn’t some pretend scheme that we’ve made up. It’s not a group of disgruntled grads who failed because they were lazy. It’s a legitimate problem, recognized by many people, clearly documented and based on facts. And you 24 students are about to become its latest victims.
Why are you ignoring this? Do you still not get it? What parts of it do you still not understand, because maybe we need to be clearer?
I strongly urge you to read everything on this site, then on Inside the Law School Scam. Then read Nando’s work at Third Tier Reality. It’s all free, and it will take maybe a few hours to browse through in its entirety. Then read Paul Campos’ book, Don’t Go To Law School (Unless), and then read my book, Con Law.
No, I’ll go one step further than that. If you are one of those 24 students who have enrolled at Indiana Tech Law School, I will send you a copy of my book for free. You don’t even have to pay the $2.99 to download it from Amazon. It’s on me.
Look, at this point in time, you’re a mere $400 out of pocket. That’s the sum of the non-refundable deposits you’ve sent into Indiana Tech. Please, for your own sake, walk away. $400 lost now is far better than $200,000 lost over the next two decades, along with the countless opportunities you’ll miss out on because you’re in debt up to your eyeballs and branded as a lawyer. Leave the $400 on the table, write a quick email to the admissions dean, and walk away. Save law school for next year if you have to, and make sure you at least go to an accredited school. Rolling the dice for a $200,000 bet on law school is risky even at the best ABA-accredited law schools in the nation. Rolling the dice for a $200,000 bet on an unaccredited new law school where you will be “educated” by the most ridiculous bunch of academic misfits I’ve ever seen calling themselves a law faculty is insane.
You can do far better than this.
Anyone attending Indiana Tech this fall must want to be a lawyer really badly. Or perhaps just wants to be a really bad lawyer.
Charles Cooper is the author, along with Thane Messinger, of “Con Law: Avoiding...or Beating...the Scam of the Century (The Real Student's Guide to Law School and the Legal Profession)”, in addition to being the moderator at Nontradlaw.net and the author of “Later in Life Lawyers”. He can be contacted at charlescooperauthor@gmail.com.
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