The school has a total unemployment rate of 12.3%, and an underemployment
Yes, that unemployment rate is worse than the national average for all workers. This is typical of law school grads.
Brooklyn's Median LSAT score has dropped 7 points in four years. It's 25th percentile LSAT score has dropped 9 points in four years, from 162 to 153.
Those are massive drops. I work in the LSAT field. At 162, students will avoid making mistakes in formal logic. E.g. "All cats have tails" can be drawn as C --> T. You can also say "not T" --> "not C".
At 162, students will almost always get this right, even with harder sentences. At 153, students will repeatedly make logical mistakes and come up with things like Tail --> Cat.
(They wouldn't make that error on a simple sentence, but they would with different subject matter)
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Post-2008, legal employment went south, and law school tuition costs soared. To study law now you're looking at $200,000 in debt.
So most smart students avoid law school unless they get a full ride scholarship to a T14 school.
Meaning that a larger and larger portion of remaining students are....less analytically capable, to put it gently.
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People ask: if there's a glut of lawyers, why are legal services not getting cheaper. But there's a certain minimum standard you need in a lawyer.
A bad lawyer can do a LOT of damage, and the damage won't show up for years down the road.