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Transferring / Re: I've gotta get out of this place
« on: February 10, 2005, 02:31:44 PM »
Yeah, so, ah, no comment.
Thanks for the suggestions though. I think the only thing that dissuades me from Texas is it's in Texas. I just can't see myself in Texas. But it's cheap isn't it? The school and the cost of living, right? It would be nice not to be $150,000 in debt by the time I graduate. I never considered Berkeley because it's quite close to home for me and I don't really like home. Michigan, I don't know. I haven't actually gotten the impression that the students are laid back there. They're not over-the-top, egomanical masters-of-the-universe-in-training like some students I know all too well, but I just didn't get a very good sense of the place when I applied there the first time around. Of course, I clearly did not put as much effort into school shopping as I should have. I have too easily let first impressions sway me. Like the impression of thinking it necessary to remind every applicant 99 times during the admissions process that this school is "intense" is a good thing. Oh, if only intense meant bookish, like I thought it did, rather than cold at the core of one's soul as it turns out it does mean.
So here's another question for anyone who'd like to help a lost soul: If you apply to transfer to schools at which you were accepted when you applied as a 1L but declined, do they factor in their previous acceptance as a good thing or a bad thing? In other words, are they more likely to let someone in as a transfer that they accepted as a 1L, or do they hold a grudge for turning them down? And once again, are they likely to heavily finance someone who is coming from a better school (and I mean better in a U.S. News and World Report kind of way, and not in a morally better kind of way).
Actually, OK, one more thought...supplanting my previous no comment. For people out there applying as a 1L or as a transfer, and considering my recently revealed institution of higher education, I must provide this disclaimer: There are reasons to go to this school. The faculty is brilliant; being taught as a 1L by the legal equivalent of Olympians is both terrifying and exciting. And wonderful. This faculty knows their *&^%. They really know their *&^%. And my classmates are very smart, at least very smart in the way people with high LSAT scores and near limitless capacity for information gathering are very smart (but hey, that's as smart as law students get- we're not expected to be brillaint theorists, only brilliant technicians [which, by the way explains a great deal of my distress in law school. I wanted law to be righteous, and it's only functional]). Anyway, my point is, it's a great school. But only great for people who are highly competitive, pretty damn conservative, know they're going to work in BigLaw and have no interest in doing anything else, a little nerdy, and yes, "intense." I don't like it here, but there are people who really do, who wouldn't trade it for anything, and I actually envy them. So, if you've seen The Paper Chase a few too many times and have thought to yourself, "gee I wish there were still professors like Kingsfield, schools like Harvard before it went soft... because, damnit I could kick ass in a place like that," well, have I got a school for you.
Thanks for the suggestions though. I think the only thing that dissuades me from Texas is it's in Texas. I just can't see myself in Texas. But it's cheap isn't it? The school and the cost of living, right? It would be nice not to be $150,000 in debt by the time I graduate. I never considered Berkeley because it's quite close to home for me and I don't really like home. Michigan, I don't know. I haven't actually gotten the impression that the students are laid back there. They're not over-the-top, egomanical masters-of-the-universe-in-training like some students I know all too well, but I just didn't get a very good sense of the place when I applied there the first time around. Of course, I clearly did not put as much effort into school shopping as I should have. I have too easily let first impressions sway me. Like the impression of thinking it necessary to remind every applicant 99 times during the admissions process that this school is "intense" is a good thing. Oh, if only intense meant bookish, like I thought it did, rather than cold at the core of one's soul as it turns out it does mean.
So here's another question for anyone who'd like to help a lost soul: If you apply to transfer to schools at which you were accepted when you applied as a 1L but declined, do they factor in their previous acceptance as a good thing or a bad thing? In other words, are they more likely to let someone in as a transfer that they accepted as a 1L, or do they hold a grudge for turning them down? And once again, are they likely to heavily finance someone who is coming from a better school (and I mean better in a U.S. News and World Report kind of way, and not in a morally better kind of way).
Actually, OK, one more thought...supplanting my previous no comment. For people out there applying as a 1L or as a transfer, and considering my recently revealed institution of higher education, I must provide this disclaimer: There are reasons to go to this school. The faculty is brilliant; being taught as a 1L by the legal equivalent of Olympians is both terrifying and exciting. And wonderful. This faculty knows their *&^%. They really know their *&^%. And my classmates are very smart, at least very smart in the way people with high LSAT scores and near limitless capacity for information gathering are very smart (but hey, that's as smart as law students get- we're not expected to be brillaint theorists, only brilliant technicians [which, by the way explains a great deal of my distress in law school. I wanted law to be righteous, and it's only functional]). Anyway, my point is, it's a great school. But only great for people who are highly competitive, pretty damn conservative, know they're going to work in BigLaw and have no interest in doing anything else, a little nerdy, and yes, "intense." I don't like it here, but there are people who really do, who wouldn't trade it for anything, and I actually envy them. So, if you've seen The Paper Chase a few too many times and have thought to yourself, "gee I wish there were still professors like Kingsfield, schools like Harvard before it went soft... because, damnit I could kick ass in a place like that," well, have I got a school for you.