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I've seen a lot of people on the interwebs worried that the 2020-21 app cycle is going to be tougher because of deferrals from last cycle filling seats ahead of schedule. Is there any evidence that tons of people actually are deferring, though? Online 1L fall sounds miserable but it's not much worse...

If you don't improve on the 167 (which I'm sure you will!), then Georgetown (or UTexas, if you'd like to live in Texas) ED is an intriguing option thanks to the GI Bill, and their ED apps stay open late enough that you would have that August score to make an informed decision. Both schools would be ...

I'd also go Yale here, and plan on staying inside the LRAP envelope, but RTK is a legit alternative and it might be easier for your partner to target Manhattan/NYC generally than New Haven. It just seems easier to target impact lit from YLS. COVID is kind of a wash since it affects both places and i...

https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/19-635_o7jq.pdf I think you were right that C.J. had been gunning for unaminity - Roberts opinion, joined by the libs, Kavanaugh/Gorsuch with a literal "both sides" concurrence, only Thomas/Alito dissenting due credit where credit is due, it was...

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I think you were right that C.J. had been gunning for unaminity - Roberts opinion, joined by the libs, Kavanaugh/Gorsuch with a literal "both sides" concurrence, only Thomas/Alito dissenting

Nony's experience aligns with mine. I was a social-sciences major in college and I've always read a lot of English-language nonfiction in my spare time. I also don't subvocalize when I read (I know this because I have to consciously do it to analyze poetry etc.). Agree that the Economist is an espec...

I went -0 in September 2017. (Was a pleasant surprise since my PTs had been bouncing between -1 and -3.) To be clear, I'm not saying you should rip through the passages in 90 seconds. I probably read things too quickly, and if I recall correctly you're not a native English speaker so it'll be more i...

You only have about 8 minutes per subsection, so spending 4 minutes just to read the passage sounds way too high to me. Are you heavily annotating them? Even if you find it helpful to mark up the text, you can't afford to spend a ton of time on it. When I took the test, I would just read the passage...

Yes, you'll definitely see less scholarship money on average if you apply ED. Binding decisions and merit aid do the same thing: get people to matriculate. If any law school kept their financial-aid process walled from their admissions process, which is the only way to ensure that ED admits get the ...

wear this and insist it satisfies the mask requirement. most law professors are cowed by linguistic ambiguity

Thank you again heythatslife, I genuinely appreciate it! On a side note and purely for my own curiosity, do you happen to know if my undergraduate university might preclude me from getting admitted at certain firms, even if I were to get in H/Y/S for law? I recognise that some elite places (e.g. Wa...

I'm not sure this makes the point you think it does. Driving drunkards home is noble in a vacuum, but doing it after a 19-hour workday is irresponsible. You could have killed people that night. And while you do a good job explaining how much that convertible meant to you personally, it's still just ...

Don't overthink this. Insofar as anyone cares in the first place they'll cut you some slack for the summer of 2020.

(That said, "Summer 2020" is not gonna totally camouflage this since a lot of job applications, and LinkedIn, ask for month/year start and end dates.)

You're pretty near the ceiling for useful instruction if you're getting a total of -4 across those three sections. In other words, you clearly know how the questions work to a point that can't be improved on, and the difference between getting a given question is mostly a matter of coping with the t...

Northwestern gets such a raw deal in these statistics. This year is -4.7%, but the great outcomes are actually probably UP. That 10% JD/MBA class really skews things, because the Kellogg MBA leads to some very nice gigs. Last year only 8 students went into JD advantage roles. This year it was 21. I...

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Tue May 05, 2020 9:05 am

I wish they had been accountable for my failure

Don't we all

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Duke > sTTTanford confirmed

Why do people post this stupid shit. Clearly Stanford grads are going to venture capital and tech right out the gate.

just 'avin' a giggle m8

Harvard continues to lag Chicago on clerkships huh? Tsk tsk... I suspect UChi is a little inflated by the quality of the Fed Soc pipeline + a broader pool of potential candidates who aren't averse to clerking in far-flung non-coastal places, but I think some of it too is just how strongly the schoo...

Harvard continues to lag Chicago on clerkships huh? Tsk tsk... I suspect UChi is a little inflated by the quality of the Fed Soc pipeline + a broader pool of potential candidates who aren't averse to clerking in far-flung non-coastal places, but I think some of it too is just how strongly the schoo...

i thought int'l atty's don't need a JD to practice, just a "law degree" = LLM. LLM>JD bc of grading/shorter. They don't. An LLM is sufficient, but the job prospects are significantly worse. OP, if you're going to do a JD anyway, I'd just do a JD first. If you go to a T13, there's a very good chance...

Either school, in this economy, creates a real risk of chronic unemployment after you graduate. Catholic is a defensible choice if you can keep your debt below $50-60k or so (i.e., you can live with your parents or an SO or otherwise cut living expenses to the bone) and you're devoted to public serv...

Duke > sTTTanford confirmed

Hi all, thank you for your responses so far. I am majoring in philosophy at a t30 school, so I'm not sure if my school will make up for my choice of major. I am mostly wondering if it is worth applying this cycle (c/o 2024) with the *plan* of deferring a year (to c/o 2025) but the *option* of matri...

Hi all, thank you for your responses so far. I am majoring in philosophy at a t30 school, so I'm not sure if my school will make up for my choice of major. I am mostly wondering if it is worth applying this cycle (c/o 2024) with the *plan* of deferring a year (to c/o 2025) but the *option* of matri...