Based on your description of your work at NHT, I was hoping to hear that you were interested in social justice and public interest law, nor in becoming a corporate lawyer/politician. Very disappointed. I am curious about what you expect to do differently from all those in govt and the private sector in Jamaica who currently have the same training and ambitions that you do?

NU has some great faculty. Among the best is Dorothy Roberts. If you decide to go to NU, take a class with her. Look up her work if you don’t know it.

A word of advice: Don’t be so starstruck and caught up with the name and status of the school. That’s a rather naive approach. Besides, names don’t get you jobs; your talent and demonstrated abilities do. NU gives you access to a network, but if you’re a dud, it will become known as well, and you’ll be hustling like everyone else for a clerkship.

Those “loans” the admissions officer will be substantial and a bitch to pay off. Corporate law, crass and boring as it is, will seem very attractive when you get the first set of loan receipts. Don’t fall for that sales pitch crap. Make decisions soundly based on information.

Humility will also serve you well.

Best of luck to you!

Jo-Ann Webster