LawSchool.Life

FinallyLiveaLittle wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:09 pm

Wondering if there'd be a substantial difference between applying on the day apps open and Early October.

Lol probably not. Even Halloween is still pretty early.

50/50 in my experience usually either means 1) one of the choices is excluded in a subtle way by a word I didn’t fully appreciate in the stimulus or 2) one of the choices, compared to the other, has one of its little Boolean-logic arrows flipped the wrong way (which often is close to unnoticeable in...

ED would be a big mistake, except maybe Chicago for the guaranteed merit aid. If I were you I’d apply to the entire T14.

I'm thinking it'll be a good idea to go light on the timed sections during my weekday studies and instead do some focused, un-timed practice Sounds backwards to me. Using untimed LSAT practice to prepare for the real thing is like hitting baseballs off the tee to prepare for a live pitcher. You wan...

Those small electives, by definition, don't have a lot of people in them, and it's not like "no mandatory curve" means "everyone gets an A", so a handful of 1Ls taking them doesn't interfere with the goal of a mandatory grade distribution: to get the 1L class to conform to a nice bell curve.

Spivey posted new stats for HLS. LSAT summary stats unchanged...despite the bump in high scorers Harvard's class is so big, and its 25/50/75 so high, that it'd take more than a hot LSAT year for them to make a significant move. They probably used all the extra bandwidth at 170+ to focus on other in...

Not gonna happen. Being a HC is at minimum a part-time job (20+ hours per week). You could be a non-essential assistant if you ended up at a firm with a good QoL and schedule flexibility. But I think being even an assistant would be tough in biglaw. yea.... ik.....the sad truth... i dont understand...

I take notes in Notepad and then copy-paste them into excel with the date in another column and some keywords in a 3rd

Yeah, HYS seem pretty serious about their GPA floors. When they do dip below 3.5, however, I imagine it’d be for a candidate like you, so apply anyway. 173+URM is a precious combo so you’re definitely in the running for good outcomes somewhere. What is the subject of this LOR? A substantive one coul...

Yes, you should be entirely focused on your GPA at the moment. Working on the LSAT now would probably do more harm than good. While justpeachy's reasons for working as a paralegal are good ones, it's unnecessarily limiting to choose a job this way. You should look for a job you enjoy and, to a lesse...

For this reason alone? Probably not. Maybe, e.g., the landlord only lets them have so many guest parkers simultaneously.

I have yet to hear a compelling reason for going straight through. There was one person on the old site who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and apparently wanted, more than anything else, to become a lawyer before passing away. I’m only bringing it up to emphasize how high the bar is for...

With your current numbers, and especially because your goals fit Northwestern nicely, I think ED is a fine plan. Stranger is right, though, that you’d probably get a decent UChicago offer as-is. Weighing ~80k in debt against the marginal difference in employment outcomes is a question about which re...

Internships are cool but don’t speak about someone the way 12+ months in a full-time job can, if that’s what you mean by “treated the same as work experience”.

I’m in a similar spot. Definitely wait, and definitely retake the LSAT if at all possible.

Did anyone else try to use distracting and stressful environments to mimic test day nerves? I figured that I would never get the same experience alone in a quiet room as an actual test day, so I did about half of my PTs in public places. My favorite jam was a McDonald's full of screaming children, ...

I don't want to cut you down here, but you might be hurting yourself by relying on other individual's experiences because their circumstances are almost certainly different from yours. You run the double risk of, first, making suboptimal study plans and, second, setting yourself up for disappointmen...

A couple of people on the Internet is a far cry from “universally regarded”, though. I think bruh’s personal experience was meant to dispute that idea.

40 hours/week = full-time. If they meant to exclude summer internships they would say so.

Have to agree with the above. $275,000 of compounding loans will ruin your life, and Georgetown isn't a sure enough path to your goals to justify its (also eye-watering) price tag.

Realistic, sure, but not reliable enough to make a massive life decision based on the possibility IMO. Life sometimes intervenes at bad times.

And finally... Iowa - 19.0% (26/137) (-7.0% from 2016) BL: 12.4% (17) FC: 6.6% (9) Ouch! Why are they ranked so high? Honest question. US News doesn’t care about this metric but it cares a lot about these three: Medians, resources, reputation. Iowa historically does well at those things. And it’s w...

I don't mean to hate on Georgetown, but I do think that its strengths (e.g. proximity to the US government + nonprofits) are largely wasted on OP because they require a visa after they graduate. Spending 3 years + tens of thousands of dollars on a law degree only to get deported is a much gnarlier f...

I don't think GULC is going to provide you much marginal benefit in terms of international law, but it does give you a substantially larger chance of missing out on biglaw, which is a massive problem for someone who needs an H1B.

snarfing wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 16, 2018 2:19 pm

looks like fordham continues to be a solid choice. why is it ranked fairly low for its pretty good employment stats? I really dont get the ranking system at all.

Reputation, GPA/LSAT medians, etc.

No reasonable person thinks US News rankings are very useful for deciding what school to attend.