Law School Discussion

So I guess that means you aren't going to transfer

The first round of offers already went out. There will probably be a few additional offers off the waitlist but those have probably already gone out or will go out soon.

1) you won't have any say with regard to class schedule although you will have an elective your second semester. you'll probably have classes in the mornings four days a week (three days a week if you are lucky) and two classes in the afternoon. You'll probably be finished by 3pm. You will either have no classes or one class on fridays (I was lucky...first semester I had no classes on thursday and one blow-off class on friday)

2) That I don't know. Keep up with the reading, constantly review, work hard, and check out old exams and you should do fine.

3) I took public transportation. You probably know more about parking on campus than I do.

4) You shouldn't worry about making Law Review. Membership on law review is dependant on your grades and your write-on essay. If you want to make Law Review, you should concentrate on your grades.

5) Professors are really accessible. I don't think it is intimidating at all. A lot of the professors are interested in you as a person so I would suggest, especially with your small group professor (you'll take one class with about 25 others your first semester), to go up to the professor and tell them a little about yourself. You don't always have to have a question about class. You can talk about other interests, family, or career paths.

6) I think the Society program is fine. At this point in your life most people are adults and will participate as much or as little as they want. You can play intermural sports in your society, go to social events, etc. It is really nice the first couple of weeks as your mentors will be a great resource in helping you make the adjustment to law school.

As for the summer, the best advice is to enjoy yourself. There will be plenty of time to work later and trying to prepare ahead (reading a casebook on constitutional law) isn't very effective without knowing more about what particular areas of the law that professor plans on covering and how they will be assessing you.

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While it is true that the spots available do not deferentiate between 1Ls and 2Ls I don't think you need to take that into account. The vast majority of summer v25s (I guess 95%) are filled by 2Ls. So if you want to add anything to the initial estimate of 4500 people vying for spots you should just add the total number of 1L summers not all possible 1Ls because those 1L slots are assumedly being filled at the expense of a 2L who would otherwise have had that spot. Of course getting a 1L position is more difficult and if you wanted to study just summer placement you should double the number of job seekers to 9000 but I am just interested in jobs after graduation.

Let's extrapolate the number of V100 summers from the number of V25 summers (you could collect the NALP data if you were so inclined). The firms get smaller as you go down so let's assume that there are 3 times as many V100 summer positions as V25 summer positions. That is still 10,887 summer positions. How many people graduated from T14s last year? I believe less than 4,000. Thus, it seems to me that a V100 position for a T14 after graduation is practically guaranteed if you want one. 

Just so you know that list is outdated. 2007 PPP is here:

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