Many people believe that law school is a “scam” due to the fact that only around fifty-five percent of law school graduates had a job that required their degree after a few months. This means that around half went to law school for no discernible reason. However, the real reason that most people do bad at law school is due to cognitive bias.  Everyone believes that college is a magic bill that will make them a great lawyer, but this is most surely not the case. For instance, schools that tend to attract worse law students, such as the Whittier College of Law, have higher unemployment rates than more esteemed, expensive colleges like Columbia. The thing to take away from all this is that many law graduates have unimpressive test scores and GPA’s and have very little passion. People tend to have a strong cognitive bias towards themselves, believing that they are incredibly attractive or intelligent when this may not be the case in reality. Law students need to seriously consider whether or not they have the drive to be a lawyer, as no matter how much schooling someone with no drive gets, zero multiplied by zero is still zero.