defeatist

A JD turns out not to be very good preparation for academia, even legal academia. It's primarily a professional degree, so you end up with ideas about the legal system and the judiciary from an insider's perspective. Reading the opinions of courts on what the powers of courts ought to be is a fun way to spend three years and $150k, but if you want to actually understand the thing, you need some other kind of advanced training, at least in my opinion. I was hoping not to have to do that.

With the current state of the legal hiring market, and based on the experiences of my classmates, I'm not sure law school's such a great Plan B.

So I'm a soon-to-be law school graduate from a top 10 school, on track to graduate with honors (GPA ~3.5). I did a 750V/800Q/5.0 on the GRE, and I've apparently completely struck out in the grad school admissions process. I wanted to study public law/theory. What should I do instead?