American nobody wanted to go to law school to become a lawyer, the Harvard Yale people don't go

According to "the Wall Street journal" (Wall Street Journal) message, USA (Law School Admissions CommitteeLaw SchoolAdmission Council, Inc.) released the latest data show, law school applicants dropped 11.5% since the beginning of this year, only 66876 people. This is since 2001 the lowest.

Now more and more favor of law school applicants began to realize, lost employment prospects and debt law education have changed that once the occupation. Each big company lawyers in recent years has been to the decrease in recruitment, while many lawyers have for years without raising the recruitment base salary.

The indeed, holds a law degree to a few elite may bring no small economic returns. Some law firm partner fees have more than $1000 per hour, while the annual income of more than $2000000. but to sit on the seat of the partner, they not only to the top of the graduated from the law school, and then into the crowded broken head into a lawyer's office, but also for many years of hard work diligently, will have a.

Even America Lawyers Association (AmericanBar Association) has also realized the huge risk investment law school. The association in 2009 has been in a report pointed out: "the real difficulty is the high tuition plus lawyers work means that law school may not necessarily be a good return." The report also pointed out, School of law graduates will have an average $100000 educational debt.

USA Ohio State University pre law advisor black Ryan (Ryan Heitkamp) said: "when the economy began to decline, the students had the law school as alternative to escape the pressure of employment. But today's news out of this and alternative is not a safe."

The city of New York Fuhan University (Fordham Univ) law school this year the number of applicants dropped 15%. The University's law school spokesman Jiang Kairui (Carrie Johnson) said: "those who have applied for people is more carefully analyzed the investment for them, and it is the pursuit of the students on the law."

University of Washington in Saint Louis (WashingtonUniversityDean of the law school) Skent (Kent Syverud) points out, the school of law school applicants this year decreased by 11%, but this is a good phenomenon. Because the students return to employment prospects and investment becomes more clear. He said: "in the past, some does not know what to do but return to good students will leave law school after graduation as a way out. This year, people don't seem to apply for the."

At the same time, has been America news and World Report magazine for many years (U.S. News & World Report) come out in front of the school of law, it is not so popular. The top ten law school last year to attract the most applicants are not those famous said of sb.'s name cattle school, but the school ranked in the name of the 10-20 cattle.

Always supercilious Harvard University law school, Law School of Yale University and Stanford University School of law, has not attracted the most applicants into law school ten. The following list:

A, Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Univ)
Two, New York Law School of Columbia University (Columbia University)
Three, California University of Losangeles School of law (University of California-Los Angeles)
Four, Virginia University School of law (University of Virginia)
Five, the Boston University School of law (Boston University)
Six, the Law School of New York University (New YorkUniversity)
Seven, UC Berkeley law school (University of California-Berkeley)
Eight, George, University of Washington School of law (George Washington Univ.)
Nine, American University Washington College of law (American University)
Ten, the Duke University School of law (Duke University)