Advice to Pre-Law Students to Impress Law School Admissions Committees

 Try to get a 3.75 GPA. Spend 40 hours a week studying, you are on the job. It is worth $millions in future earnings. There is only one way to learn, and it is repetition. If you are stupid in a subject, repeat more. Try for the high grades from the first grading period. You can skip the partying, since it is quite boring. Alcohol and drugs also impair brian function. Serial dating is more productive, growthful, and thrilling for the young person. Bumble has great, high achieving young people. Females must start the conversation on it. Match has topnotch older people that will enjoy dating a young person. Drop your distaste for the older body. Exercise a half an hour a day, at least 5 days a week to look good. If male, lift weights. Try to avoid the weight gain that is inevitable after age 18. You have 112 waking hours a week. They should be booked up. You are rapidly deteriorating with age after 18. Do not waste a minute of your peak existence. 

You can have any major you wish. Your high grades show Admissions you can finish, and hand in quality work. That is all they want. I suggest a technical major, since it will be an asset when looking for a lawyer job. For example, a lawyer who was a nurse, or an accountant, or a chemist, or even an art historian (for museum law) is worth gold to law firms. 

I have suggested some mandatory pre-law subjects, but these are being ignored. 

Critical Thinking Course, including Formal Logic. It should also cover Fallacies and  Cognitive Biases. Fallacies violate the Procedural Due Process Right to a fair hearing in the Fifth and in the Fourteenth Amendments. The common law doctrinces in the various Rules often commit these. These violations should be brought up in law classes and in litigation. The common law includes unlawful supernatural concepts such as mind reading (mens rea), future forecasting (duty to prevent injury), and an examplar of conduct that is a ficitious characted (a thinly disguised Jesus, in violation of the Establishment Clause). 

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods since most decisions in the law are made on feelings, no matter what the law school propraganda. The jury system was an advance a thousand years ago. It brings the wisdon of the crowd. Most jurors want to go home. They will go along with the one juror with a strong feeling. That feeling is based on on likability of the parties, the theater production of the trial, and on other biases. 

Economic Policy Analysis or another course that covers the rent seeking theory. It explains the pathologies, failures, and malfeasance of the lawyer profession. Rent seeking is armed robbery by intelligent, middle class people. It is still a crime. 

Speech Articulation and Speech Making will help the student get rid of a distracting accent, and impart some confidence in public speaking. 

Advice to Pre-Medical Students on Impressing the Medical School Admissions Committee

Forget work life balance. There is none in your future. Try to maintian a 3.75 college GPA. How does one do that? Study over 40 hours a week, every week of the marking period. There is no other way to learn any skill or subject than repetitition. If you are stupid, repeat more. Try to get all A's in the 4 Pre-medical required subject, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Organic Chemistry. Try to take these subjects in the first 3 years, since they may be covered on the MCAT exam. Take the MCAT twice if the first scores were too low. The medical school does not care what your major is. It does want to know you get things done, finish, and can succeed. If you carry a 16 credit hour a weekin college, medical school will be equivalent to a 40 credit hour week (8 hours a day of lectures 5 days a week). You will be learning a  2000 page book every 12 weeks. Even with a photographic memory, you will still not be able to answer the question upon graduation, what do you want to do to help this patient, Doctor? That will require another 10,000 hours of patient care. 

Avoid drinking and using drugs in college. They impair brain function. You have 112 waking hours a week. Fill them up with useful activity. People outside of healthcare are less likely to understand your situation.You can skip the partying, since it is quite boring. Alcohol and drugs also impair brian function. Serial dating is more productive, growthful, and thrilling for the young person. Bumble has great, high achieving young people. Females must start the conversation on it. Match has topnotch older people that will enjoy dating a young person. Drop your distaste for the older body. Exercise a half an hour a day, at least 5 days a week to look good. If male, lift weights. Try to avoid the weight gain that is inevitable after age 18. You have 112 waking hours a week. They should be booked up. You are rapidly deteriorating with age after 18. Do not waste a minute of your peak existence. 

If you need a job to pay expenses, consider training and certification as an EMT, rather than as a fast food worker, librarian, or Uber driver. 

Basic Requirements: 1. Age: 18 years old (minimum); 2. High school diploma or equivalent; 3. Valid driver's license; 4. CPR certification

Training Levels: 1. EMT-Basic (EMT-B): 120-150 hours: 1. Patient assessment; 2. Airway management; 3. Trauma care; 4. Medical emergencies. 2. EMT-Intermediate (EMT-I): 30-35 hours (additional):  1. IV therapy; 2. Medication administration; 3. Advanced airway management. 3. EMT-Paramedic (EMT-P): 1,200-1,800 hours: 1. Advanced life support; 2. Pharmacology: 3. Cardiac arrest management. Certification: 1. National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT); 2. State certification (varies)

Skills: 1. Patient assessment; 2. Airway management; 3. CPR; 4. Defibrillation; 5. Trauma care; 6. Medical emergency management

Continuing Education: 1. Recertification (every 2 years); 2. Continuing education hours (varies)

Salary Range: 1. EMT-B: $25,000 - $40,000; 2. EMT-I: $30,000 - $50,000; 3. EMT-P: $40,000 - $70,000. 

This job will give a preview of the profession. It will provide a rich discussion for the medical school interview. Why do you want to be a doctor? To help people. Here is a list of ghastly but memorable mistakes I made taking care of them. 

If you have a summer off, go to the local med school and volunteer to carry out a small research project leading to a publication within the time of the summer break. Again, this project shows an ability to complete a task, and to get a result. Publication of  a negative finding is as valuable as a positive finding, but less glamorous. Try learn about the subject matter of the faculty before a meeting. This experience will also provide a good subject for the medical school interview. Why do you want to be a doctor? To help people. Here is the  flow chart for my NIH grant proposal.