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General board for soon-to-be 1Ls / Re: Pwned by Federal Judge« on: March 16, 2008, 12:07:55 PM »
This one is pretty good too: http://www.studentweb.law.ttu.edu/cochran/cochran/Business%20Torts/mattel.htm
(see especially the final line of the opinion) 42
Law School Applications / Re: Which student would an Admissions Committee pick?« on: March 15, 2008, 07:27:02 PM »I will be a better student in law school because of my job experience. I am more valuable as a 3.4 student with 4 years of full time employment than I would have been with a 3.7 and one summer internship. Maybe, but not necessarily. To say so would conflate experience with potential. Do you win with experience? Definitely. Do you win with potential? Maybe not. Give the 3.7 applicant four years and you'll probably have an applicant with a 3.7 AND four years of work experience, just like you. There's certainly something to be said for the way business schools do things - that is, having full time work experience be pretty much a prerequisite - but (rightly or wrongly), it isn't the way law schools do things. Remember that GPA plays second fiddle to LSAT. In your hypo, your four years of work experience haven't enabled you to score better on the LSAT (which is the best individual predictor of first year law school performance we have, as imperfect as it is). Why work experience doesn't play a huge role in law school admissions is, I think, more complex than "adcomms are biased because of their own high GPAs." 43
General board for soon-to-be 1Ls / Re: Michigan Class of 2011: where you should be« on: March 12, 2008, 09:56:36 PM »yeah i do that too Bouzie If anyone plans on being awake at 8AM Friday, you might want to sit in on our Constitutional Law class. It's certainly one of the more interesting classes, and it might give you a better view of what a law school class is like (with the caveat that professors who aren't our con law professor call on far fewer people per class). Civ Pro might be weird on Friday because we'll probably be talking about Motions Day (Federal judge is coming to the law school tomorrow to hold hearings on motions in our Civ Pro class). 44
General board for soon-to-be 1Ls / Re: Michigan Class of 2011: where you should be« on: March 12, 2008, 09:20:01 PM »yeah i do that too Bouzie Yeah, between 6 Civ Pro classes, 5 property classes this week, and then volunteering at the SFF auction tomorrow (admitted students: I might be checking your coat), I can't wait until this week is over. I think the ASW'ers are going to MNOP's class though. 45
General board for soon-to-be 1Ls / Re: Michigan Class of 2011: where you should be« on: March 12, 2008, 08:26:27 PM »yeah i do that too Bouzie Ugh, I was hoping he'd cancel class for Friday 
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General board for soon-to-be 1Ls / Re: How much money can a 1L ,2L, and 3L make in the summer to pay off loans?« on: March 11, 2008, 10:48:32 PM »If debt were scaled by cost of living, maybe.I suppose, but does this matter if the OP is just trying to gauge how much its possible to make (to pay debt or otherwise) before he/she graduates? No you can't just compare the raw income, but $3000 a week in NYC is still going to be significantly more, whether you're paying off your debt or something else. NYC living costs are high, but not $1800 a week more than Toledo. 47
Law School Applications / Re: Spitzer in law school admissions material« on: March 11, 2008, 10:03:47 PM »
The Harvard Alumni magazine:
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Law School Applications / Re: how would you rank T14 based on pure layman prestige/first impression???????« on: March 11, 2008, 05:24:49 PM »There are some situations in which lay prestige can matter a great deal, although they're admittedly rare -- mostly non-law sectors where the JD is tangentially relevant. Too, I wonder to what degree your average Congressman knows that Cornell is ranked below Penn when looking for judicial nominees? Many of them, of course, are lawyers -- but not all. I hope you're not implying that the difference in rank between Penn and Cornell should be a relevant factor in judicial nominations. 49
Law School Applications / Re: Spitzer in law school admissions material« on: March 11, 2008, 03:59:40 PM »
He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him pop up in the promotional materials there.
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Law School Applications / Re: 4.21/151/Fulbright Scholar x 2 Chances at UVA?« on: March 11, 2008, 03:57:55 PM »Do you realize that the OP could single-handedly bring UVA's entering class mean LSAT down by a point or two, while doing nothing too significant in terms of its GPA? Then again, I think median is used a lot of times when reporting those numbers. You are very bad at math. |
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