If you want to go to law school, your first step is taking, passing, and scoring well on a law school admission test. Assuming you have the grades from your college or university education, you must also have a high test score to hope to get into your law school of choice. Harvard Law School admissions, for example, generally require a 175. That's high!
The next step is to peruse the top 100 law schools that you might want to attend. You can harness the power of the internet and search "news law school rankings," for example, if you want the very latest information on how schools are viewed by ranking agencies. If you were considering Golden Gate University School of Law and knew that in 2005 it had been put on probation for its low graduation rate, then you would want the latest news: that it is one of the least selective and most diverse law schools in the US and emerged successfully from probation.
Although they have been slow to come, online law schools are now available. For example, an offspring of Kaplan University, the Concord Law School online is registered with the State of California as an online school and its graduates are permitted to sit for the California Bar Exam. Make sure, however, that you understand what an online degree permits you to do. Concord graduates may not be able to take the bar exam anywhere but California and that can overly limit your choices. Because they are economical and a law school scholarship can be hard to come by, online schools are nonetheless a practical alternative. Law school can prepare you for many career paths. Study hard, take the test, find your preferred school, and go for it!
