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It's not that your goals are lofty, but you're focusing in a way that suggests you want to backdoor prestige-whoring, because prestigious clerking, impact lit, and possibly settling for biglaw screams you aren't focused on what you actually want to do with your law degree beyond being impressive to ...

Might be some overlap with this thread: https://www.lawschool.life/forums/viewtopic.php?p=197335#p197335 And there's a lot of discussion on iPads in the general Tech and Apple threads in the Lounge. Bottom line being the iPad Pro is an excellent device that's definitely useful for document reading ...

Have you ever been a fascinated student with a law prof? They usually have their areas of interest, so your job is to pick their brain for what interests them. That could lead to an interesting statutory construction or regulatory construct, or it could result in a bizarre jurisprudential result. Re...

Honestly, that’s how it works pretty rarely. If you are looking for a good note topic, you should find a professor to supervise your note, and they usually have 3-4 topics they hope to explore, even though they don’t have the time. If you had a pet topic you wanted to explore is one thing, but if yo...

Obviously Berkeley is still the outlying piece of information needed, but with those tuition discounts, USC is winning if you assume Berkeley gives you nothing. If you wanted SF/SV Biglaw I'd hesitate to recommend USC just because USC and the Trojan network is particularly strong in LA and Southern ...

Dusty taking a long time to realize this is a losing and stupid battle.

No. Everything being equal, Harvard is a big partnership plus. Please don't ask why. Good thing there’s rarely if ever an “everything being equal” situation where graduating from Harvard is the difference between senior associate—>of counsel and senior associate—>partner. There are a large percenta...

No. Everything being equal, Harvard is a big partnership plus. Please don't ask why. Good thing there’s rarely if ever an “everything being equal” situation where graduating from Harvard is the difference between senior associate—>of counsel and senior associate—>partner. There are a large percenta...

UVA2B, do you have any insight as to whether turning down a 1L summer offer to a firm in Texas forecloses the chance to summer with them 2L summer? I want to start with a few caveats before offering any advice. First, I've never job hunted in TX, and anything I say should be understood within that ...

Here is your admittedly limited LSN profile https://myLSN.info/7htdl4_1-13.jpg You're looking good within the T6, especially at Chicago and NYU. Apply broadly to the T13 and see what offers you actually find. Depending on your goals, you could be looking at law school for free that sets you up perfe...

You can also reach out to the USAO and see if they can extend their deadline, at least until you have the opportunity to go on the rest of your interviews. Edit: to be clear, I don’t believe they can’t extend their offer deadline, so unless they offer a specific reason, you should be pushing back on...

Yes, in my opinion that is crazy.

Deferrals are usually pretty easy to get (not speaking of Stanford specifically, but they’re generally not frowned upon regardless of school), so I wouldn’t worry about any impact it has. And since Stanford exclusively gives need-based aid, the only difference this could make is if it significantly ...

It's a 1L SA problem. You're in a large pool of qualified candidates for very limited spots. You got an offer, which is more than a lot of your peers will be able to say. Congratulations on that!

Are you willing to push back and explain the realities of a legal education? If you're looking at YSH, you're likely looking at other schools with significant merit aid. Even if you were a borderline candidate at Harvard (something like 3.95/170 or 3.7/175), you could see significant aid that would ...

Are they only financing Harvard interest free, or is it an offer to finance your legal education?

That's a great point Ruby, and congratulations on all of your success both in school and in the job hunt! You're clearly winning the law school game handily. It's absolutely generic and somewhat hyperbolic to suggest someone must apply December 1st in TX in order to have any shot of a 1L SA there. A...

Since you're already thinking about the narrative you want to create with your application, then it's probably something you're mostly responsible for answering. What themes and characteristics are you hoping to highlight when you put your entire application together? Your LSAT will speak for itself...

I would be very surprised to hear of law firms drug testing, especially for SAs.

To put more of a point on it, there is a point of diminishing returns for the LSAT, which is typically right around 176. That’s not to say a 178-180 doesn’t look marginally better, but it just no longer carries additional weight like moving from 172 to 176 does.

UVA with the right connections definitely has pull in secondary midwestern markets. UVA is the play here.

While I am very sensitive to debt in the general sense, it's probably relevant how set you are on non-CA state/local government options, namely those types of positions in VA or CO. I say that because W&M and CU-Boulder aren't likely to place you in any meaningful way in CA, and you should realize ...

While I am very sensitive to debt in the general sense, it's probably relevant how set you are on non-CA state/local government options, namely those types of positions in VA or CO. I say that because W&M and CU-Boulder aren't likely to place you in any meaningful way in CA, and you should realize t...

And we’re done here.

Congratulations on a successful admissions cycle, and you shared some important lessons here! I especially appreciate 1, 2, and 4, because those are incredibly important steps in putting together a quality application. You deserve the good results you've had, and good luck making a decision between...