The Supreme Court's very own chief justice said this week that many Americans go to law school for the wrong reasons.
"I think there are a lot of people who go to law school because they're not good at math and can't think of anything else to do," John Roberts said at Houston's Rice University.
That's not the only bad reason to drop $200,000 on a law degree.
In his book "Don't Go To Law School (Unless)," law professor Paul Campos ranks the eight most ridiculous reasons for going to law school.
8. Everybody in my family is a lawyer.
Okay, this is probably a pretty benign reason to go to law school, especially since your lawyer family members could help you get a job, Campos says.
"But do you really want to have the same life as that person?" Campos asks in his book.
7. I want to save the world.
Public interest lawyers' wages have hardly risen since 2004. At the same time, competition for public-interest work has gotten incredibly fierce.
Find a way to help people that doesn't land you in debt. And if any of you do-gooders need more reasons to skip the law degree, read this.
6. I want to be rich.
While first-year lawyers at huge law firms can make $160,000, according to industry group NALP, the reality is that most make less if they get jobs at all.
Lawyers at firms with fewer than 70 lawyers make a median salary of $70,750, for example.
That's not very much if you incurred a ton of debt at a private school.
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