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General Board / Re: First Year Biglaw Associate / Author of Lifeat160 Taking Questions
« on: July 19, 2009, 09:30:08 PM »
Quote from: nealric on July 19, 2009, 09:20:08 PM
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And wayyyy more students attend GULC.  And there are only so many OCI interviews a student can do.
 

I think it depends on what the student wants.

If NYC is the target, the student will get a lot more interviews by going to GULC. If New Orleans is the target... well, no New Orleans firms come to GULC.

Something like 115 at GULC vs 15 at Tulane.

Although Tulane has a lame interview program up there every year with ~40 firms.

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General Board / Transfer from Tulane to GULC - Worth $60k?
« on: July 19, 2009, 09:22:25 PM »
Ok, so I write for www.zerolblog.com - a website where we (myself and another admissions consultant) take and answer a variety of law school admissions questions.

One of the answers given by my co-writer spawned some debate within the lifeat160 thread, and while there has already been a decent amount of discussion there, I thought it best to start a new thread.

The question:

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I’m a rising 2L at Tulane Law. My 1L grades landed me in the top 10% (which also gets me on law review), but I have been accepted to Georgetown Law as a transfer. Should I pull the trigger? I have a $25k a year scholarship at Tulane and I landed a competitive internship this summer.
- GPA: XX LSAT: XX

The answer:

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Sorry, I don’t really see why you should transfer in this situation. The shrinking availability of big-firm jobs has caused a number of law students (including you!) to consider transferring when it probably isn’t in their best interest. Look, you are still in position to land one of the coveted big-firm jobs – probably in a better position than if you transferred to Georgetown. Every big-firm coming to Tulane’s OCI program will be looking to recruit students just like you. Why pay full price at Georgetown when you can get the same jobs at discount? Transferring would be a mistake.

I agree with the answer (although I may quibble with the "probably in a better position than if you transferred" line).  What do you think?

Make the following assumptions/considerations:

Student wants a big firm job in any market.
Student has a 40% chance of being published as a member of law review.

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General Board / Re: Just Learned 6 Firms Out of my OCI
« on: July 19, 2009, 12:45:31 AM »
Quote from: M_Cool on July 18, 2009, 03:34:50 PM
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Is WUSTL still T20?


I can't believe even WUSTL only has 8 vault firms at its OCI.  That's insane if true. 

Not to stir the pot but a prominent TEXAS firm just pulled out of the UTEXAS OCI.

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Where should I go next fall? / Re: School in the mid-50's (Free tuition) vs. School in mid-30's ($40,000 tuition)
« on: July 16, 2009, 02:19:10 PM »
Can't tell you without specifics.

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General Board / Re: First Year Biglaw Associate / Author of Lifeat160 Taking Questions
« on: July 16, 2009, 11:33:38 AM »
I deleted the last post, but I'm leaving the others up.

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2L job search / Re: Mass mail v. email
« on: July 15, 2009, 03:28:26 PM »
Email if the firm has an online application system, snail mail otherwise.

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General Board / Re: First Year Biglaw Associate / Author of Lifeat160 Taking Questions
« on: July 15, 2009, 01:45:00 PM »
Quote from: Matthies on July 15, 2009, 01:33:06 PM
Quote from: botbot on July 15, 2009, 01:16:52 PM
As I recently took a share of the blog network, I can say that he gets paid very well for his work.

Edit: In terms of internet writing at least.

2nd Edit: I can also say that he needs to earn his money and check his email or pm box and send over the new chapter already.

What's the blog network? So you get paid for content, like just putting stuff up on your blog? What pays the bills, adds? How to I get in on the action! Inquireing minds and all that....

Dude, I tried to get you in when they first launched.  You were all like "no thanks I have better things to do"

Each blogger has a different contract, depending on various factors like IP rights and popularity.  The network owns a portion of the publishing rights for most of the blogs (including the two that are getting ready to launch).  Advertisements also bring in a decent income stream.

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General Board / Re: First Year Biglaw Associate / Author of Lifeat160 Taking Questions
« on: July 15, 2009, 01:16:52 PM »
As I recently took a share of the blog network, I can say that he gets paid very well for his work.

Edit: In terms of internet writing at least.

2nd Edit: I can also say that he needs to earn his money and check his email or pm box and send over the new chapter already.

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Law School Applications / Re: Admissions Consultants - Be Wary!!!!!
« on: July 13, 2009, 04:25:48 PM »
She has a reputation.  She's certainly competent but is notorious for claiming her students' successes as her own - and yes, she's overpriced.

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Where should I go next fall? / Re: The Tulane Thread on Tulane Greatness: Got Questions?
« on: July 12, 2009, 01:52:38 PM »
Quote from: lawboy81 on July 11, 2009, 11:00:32 PM
As I said in a previous post, I have been to New Orleans. I have also visited Tulane. I came down once to visit a friend. She had some other friends over and one told a story about how he'd been mugged the night before right outside his apartment in a place close to campus. After he told the story, a couple other people said they'd had their cars broken into.

I didn't mean to imply that Uptown New Orleans is as bad as South Central LA. This conversation is beginning to bore me.

Sounds as though you took a "look how bad I got robbed" pissing match too seriously.  Enjoy the burbs.

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