Law School Discussion

weren't oil company profits--profit, not revenue--recently at an all-time high?  yeah, greedy oil companies couldn't have anything to do with that, it's all because of... the increased costs on their end.

While oil company profits may be at an all-time high, the profit margin of oil companies is not much higher than that for all industries and actually trails many industries such as banking, pharmaceuticals, and real estate, among others.  In addition, consumers in the U.S. pay much lower prices for gasoline than do consumers in most other industrialized countries, which see higher prices due mostly to taxes.

I got a merit-based waiver and was offered the waitlist.  I didn't apply until early January, so I am not sure how that might have affected my chances.  The same thing happened at Penn under the same circumstances.  Anyway, I turned down both waitlist offers.

Edit: I also wrote all the optional essays.

I received $14,000 a year with a 168(average)/3.91 GPA, but I managed to negotiate the offer up to $18,000 a year.

As has been said, the campus is beautiful, with much of it having gothic style architecture; however, the law school does NOT have this style of architecture and does NOT really match the majority of the campus.  Also, the campus has lots of green space with a large garden area.

I'm a double hoo who had sprint as an undergrad and verizon now.  Verizon works MUCH better - do not go with Sprint.  Sprint's towers are weak and they don't utilize everyone else's towers like Verizon does.  Generally speaking, Verizon is considered the best provider in C'ville.  I think All-tel is not bad either.

My wife and I have Alltel and we have been pleased with the service in C-ville thus far.

I have been in Charlottesville since June 20th and am starting to like the town very much.