Edit: forgot one major element. A lot of schools have such poor placement that their unemployment rate is significantly worse than the national average. This i

Edit: forgot one major element. A lot of schools have such poor placement that their unemployment rate is significantly worse than the national average. This is all hidden on the front end by school marketing and the age old idea that law school is the ticket to the upper middle class (used to be, isn't now). There are great tools now to see how a school performs, but they've only been around a couple years. A lot of graduates who enrolled about 4-5 years ago found out they're more or less unemployable as lawyers, and it's not even worth taking the bar.