Hello, my names Alvin. I’m 28, non-traditional student. I began going to community college in 2020 when Covid was in full swing, online. Did 1 full year towards a criminal Justice degree.
30 credit hours community college: English 1, English 2, intro Sociology, intro to psychology, Art 101, Crmj 101, 102, 201, 202, 1340 -A’s
60 credit hours Sophia LLC: Macro economics, micro economics, history 101, 102, art history 101, 102, biology, chemistry, environmental science, College Algebra, statistics 240, intro to business, financial accounting, intro to IT, Web development, principles of finance, project management, Heath elective, communication elective, fundamental of design.
My main goal is to attend law school. My GPA is good, and I’ve already been studying for the LSAT. But, I have a few issues. Intelligently, I don’t care for Big law. I don’t care if they’ll pay me 300k a year, because I know I’ll be gone 80+ hours every week. I’m good. So, Tier 14? I don’t need it. I was thinking of going to a top 100 aba accredited, based off scholarship merit, but!!!!! I can’t stress this enough, I owe 20k in medical bills and can’t under any circumstance take out a plus loan to attend. Basically I’ll be rolling the dice heavily that I’ll get a scholarship.
So, from that point I started looking into PLAN B. California’s non-Aba, California accredited law schools. I seen you can attend with just an associates degree, but it can’t be pier pont bog AAS. It has to be an AA or an AS. Or, you can attend with 60 credit hours of college work. Where I’m at a crossroads is they don’t mention ACE credits, Sophia credits, straight line. They do mention CLEP. I’ve called the schools and no-one has given an answer or had any knowledge of ACE.
With CLEP, you take a handful of exams which give college credit, but you’ll be considered a “special student.” I’m personally not scared of the baby bar, but I’d rather not have to take it. It does firmly say “even if you have 59 credit hours, you can’t take 1 clep exam, you must take all.” So, I don’t know how they’ll view my ace credits mixed with 30 B&M.
Timeline: Take 10 months to complete my degree with SNHU (general studies bachelor) take the LSAT and get into law school (possibly have my dreams crushed if I can’t get scholarships or funding. But, it’ll be ABA and respected if I can.)
Or
Cut ABA out, go to an inexpensive JD with the goal of practicing in California. Go right now, today, and begin on the 10th. It’s a 4 year program, roughly the same time frame but it’s a guarantee (if I put in the effort and use all resources/tutoring). I’ve seen the statistics, it looks like every person who takes the Cali bar ends up spending thousands on bar prep.
I don’t need ABA because I’m not planning to go military JAG or big law. I know a non-aba lawyer who went to Nashville school of law taking night classes. Non-aba by night, paralegal by day. He earns well over 200k private. I’ve never really been a person to care about prestige or titles. I just want to be a Lawyer and to eventually go private my self.
Costs $150,000 vs $16,000.
Help me!!!
30 credit hours community college: English 1, English 2, intro Sociology, intro to psychology, Art 101, Crmj 101, 102, 201, 202, 1340 -A’s
60 credit hours Sophia LLC: Macro economics, micro economics, history 101, 102, art history 101, 102, biology, chemistry, environmental science, College Algebra, statistics 240, intro to business, financial accounting, intro to IT, Web development, principles of finance, project management, Heath elective, communication elective, fundamental of design.
My main goal is to attend law school. My GPA is good, and I’ve already been studying for the LSAT. But, I have a few issues. Intelligently, I don’t care for Big law. I don’t care if they’ll pay me 300k a year, because I know I’ll be gone 80+ hours every week. I’m good. So, Tier 14? I don’t need it. I was thinking of going to a top 100 aba accredited, based off scholarship merit, but!!!!! I can’t stress this enough, I owe 20k in medical bills and can’t under any circumstance take out a plus loan to attend. Basically I’ll be rolling the dice heavily that I’ll get a scholarship.
So, from that point I started looking into PLAN B. California’s non-Aba, California accredited law schools. I seen you can attend with just an associates degree, but it can’t be pier pont bog AAS. It has to be an AA or an AS. Or, you can attend with 60 credit hours of college work. Where I’m at a crossroads is they don’t mention ACE credits, Sophia credits, straight line. They do mention CLEP. I’ve called the schools and no-one has given an answer or had any knowledge of ACE.
With CLEP, you take a handful of exams which give college credit, but you’ll be considered a “special student.” I’m personally not scared of the baby bar, but I’d rather not have to take it. It does firmly say “even if you have 59 credit hours, you can’t take 1 clep exam, you must take all.” So, I don’t know how they’ll view my ace credits mixed with 30 B&M.
Timeline: Take 10 months to complete my degree with SNHU (general studies bachelor) take the LSAT and get into law school (possibly have my dreams crushed if I can’t get scholarships or funding. But, it’ll be ABA and respected if I can.)
Or
Cut ABA out, go to an inexpensive JD with the goal of practicing in California. Go right now, today, and begin on the 10th. It’s a 4 year program, roughly the same time frame but it’s a guarantee (if I put in the effort and use all resources/tutoring). I’ve seen the statistics, it looks like every person who takes the Cali bar ends up spending thousands on bar prep.
I don’t need ABA because I’m not planning to go military JAG or big law. I know a non-aba lawyer who went to Nashville school of law taking night classes. Non-aba by night, paralegal by day. He earns well over 200k private. I’ve never really been a person to care about prestige or titles. I just want to be a Lawyer and to eventually go private my self.
Costs $150,000 vs $16,000.
Help me!!!
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