[Dan in Pasadena]

Minkoff - My 25 year old daughter, Katie....I guess she is using "Katherine" is a newly minted lawyer. She just took the oathes last Tuesday here in Pasadena. She took the Testmasters LSAT course and says it raised her score from the average score in the country (her diagnostic test score) to the 98th percentile. Her final testing score was up 20 points.

She attended USC's Gould School of Law, graduating last June, 2007 at age 24. She took and failed the bar last July by 3 percentage points - DOH! Re-took it in February and found out she'd passed in late May. She was an Political Science major at UCLA as an undergrad.

frankly, she has a ton of school debt but contrary to what some have posted, I did not/do not feel it is my responsibility to pay for her graduate education. I strongly advised her that a graduate degree was advisable in today's work climate, but with an undergrad degree from UCLA she should be very capable of putting herself to work. Its just that she wanted to continue on and do it while it was all fresh in her mind despite her young age.

Those that know me on the board know I am terribly proud of both my kids. I only wish my father could have lived long enough to see her accomplishments. Neither my mother nor father finished high school and of my two siblings, only I attended/finished college. I later did a graduate degree and I think this truly made an impression on my kids. Best of luck to your daughter (and to you!)