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I'm going to be graduating in 2019, and wanting to go to college, I want to be a music composer or a lawyer. #lawyer #music

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Matt’s Answer

Connor,
I'm a successful music composer who has a music attorney to handle my contracts, and i can tell you this first-hand:


Be a Lawyer (but make music in your free time as a composer).


After you go through a lot of schooling, and grueling testing, you'll pass the bar and become a lawyer.
Whether you work at a firm or start your own... you'll make a lot of money. Consistently you'll bill
thousands of hours per year at hundreds of dollars per hour.


You'll live in an amazing house and drive a great car and you'll have plenty of money to put your kids through college.


You'll have financial security. And all the while you'll have money to build a music studio in your house and
you can still be a producer and / or have a state of the art recording studio that you own and you can rent it out.


If you choose to be a music producer, it's an uphill battle. There aren't many record labels left with big budgets, and the competition is
at an all time high because worldwide there are thousands of top notch producers fighting for the same gigs.


Im not trying to say you can't break through and be a huge producer, but your safe bet is to be a lawyer.


Just my 2 cents, good luck!


-Matt
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Amanda’s Answer

If you're in the United States, a law degree is a post-graduate degree so you can do both! It isn't as common to have a music undergraduate degree, so I would explain how your music background helps you to approach the law in a creative way in your admissions application. They would want to see that nexus.

In all, do what you love and don't allow what is commonly done to keep you from applying. What you may think is too unique may actually be your distinguishing factor! I had a friend in law school who was an opera singer before getting her law degree and the law school loved it!
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