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Jasmeen
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Would pursuing a bachelors in nursing help me become a better appeals/contract lawyer in the future and help my application to law school ?
I know I’m definitely getting a bachelors in nursing and then applying to law school after my bachelors. I’m kinda scared I won’t be able to get into a t-14 school if I do nursing.
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Iris Ginzburg
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Hi,
Your path sounds both unique and exciting! One important thing to keep in mind is to ensure that your nursing degree is academically strong.
Some programs — particularly those offered by for-profit colleges — tend to focus more on practical skills, which is great for hands-on experience but might not provide enough academic foundation if you later want to pursue a graduate degree, including law.
When choosing where to study nursing, I recommend selecting a university or college with solid academic credentials. If you feel you need more hands-on experience, you can always supplement your studies with internships, clinical placements, or volunteer work.
Wishing you the best on this ambitious journey!
Search for nursing bachelor degrees that explicitly write that the degree is a stepping stone in graduate degrees.
Your path sounds both unique and exciting! One important thing to keep in mind is to ensure that your nursing degree is academically strong.
Some programs — particularly those offered by for-profit colleges — tend to focus more on practical skills, which is great for hands-on experience but might not provide enough academic foundation if you later want to pursue a graduate degree, including law.
When choosing where to study nursing, I recommend selecting a university or college with solid academic credentials. If you feel you need more hands-on experience, you can always supplement your studies with internships, clinical placements, or volunteer work.
Wishing you the best on this ambitious journey!
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Iris Ginzburg
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Iris’s Answer
Hi,
Your path sounds both unique and exciting! One important thing to keep in mind is to ensure that your nursing degree is academically strong. Some programs — particularly those offered by for-profit colleges — tend to focus more on practical skills, which is great for hands-on experience but might not provide enough academic foundation if you later want to pursue a graduate degree, including law.
When choosing where to study nursing, I recommend selecting a university or college with solid academic credentials. If you feel you need more hands-on experience, you can always supplement your studies with internships, clinical placements, or volunteer work.
Wishing you the best on this ambitious journey!
Search for nursing bachelor degrees that explicitly write that the degree is a stepping stone in graduate degrees.
Your path sounds both unique and exciting! One important thing to keep in mind is to ensure that your nursing degree is academically strong. Some programs — particularly those offered by for-profit colleges — tend to focus more on practical skills, which is great for hands-on experience but might not provide enough academic foundation if you later want to pursue a graduate degree, including law.
When choosing where to study nursing, I recommend selecting a university or college with solid academic credentials. If you feel you need more hands-on experience, you can always supplement your studies with internships, clinical placements, or volunteer work.
Wishing you the best on this ambitious journey!
Iris recommends the following next steps:
Christine R.
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That's great you are already consider future career options and grad school. I guess one thing I would suggest especially if you are pursuing nursing right now, is if/how you would want to parlay that background in the legal profession. I personally have had a lot of "different" career pursuits as a nurse. I even was a legal nurse consultant for a period of my career and worked under an attorney who started her career as a nurse. If memory serves me I think she might have been a former ER nurse before she entered into law school. Now the type of practice I worked in focused on personal injury as well as injuries from medical devices and medications. So its certainly not impossible to go from nurse to attorney but I would get some ideas of what you want to do with that law degree, if you want to leverage your nursing background than by all means continue your path in nursing but if you for example have your heart set on being a real-estate attorney then you might be better served in pursuing a different undergrad program. Either way wishing you the very best in whatever you decide to pursue.