Well said Burning Sands.

 :)You're an inspiration and a positive person.  I wish you'd visit the prelaw board and set the naysayers on that board (many of them haven't even begun law school) straight. 

I understand it's a waste of money.  You pay over $1,000 for a 5 day briefing of first year classes.  Most law schools give you that during orientation.  Think about it:  how much do you think you're going to learn in 5 days?

It seems that most 1L's have to take our loans to cover their living expenses, etc.  When applying for an apartment how do you explain income or do you inform the landlord that you're going to pay your rent with student loans?  Also would you stay in your current home if moving closer to your school meant you would pay double the rent?  I currently live two hours away from the law school that I will be attending in the fall.  I'd like to move closer to the law school because I think the 2 hour each way commute would be detrimental to my studies?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Well I look at it like this. I don’t even know where Whitter is. The common wisdom is thought that if you go there your screwed. Ok, fine, but where is this common wisdom coming from? People who go to Whitter or Cooley or Idaho or South Dakota or some other T4? No, its not. Too bad we don’t have more posters on here from T4 schools to give us first hand experiences. But we don’t maybe because if we did all their threads would turn into three pages of everyone telling them how much they suck and they would leave and never come back.

We have a lot of posters from T2 schools and above and at least one from everyone of the top 14 schools (some have many posters). But as far as I know, no one who actually goes to Whitter or Cooley. Like I said, I don’t even know where Whitter is. So I’ll save my judgment on the schools and ones prospects.

We can I think generally agree that going to a T4 school puts you at a disadvantage over going to a higher ranked school. I don’t think it’s as cut and dried as many make it out to be however, epically when your talking local schools. Why do I believe that, not because anyone told me, but simply because that’s been my own personal experience. I mean I had a lot of people tell me how hard it was going to be finding a job going to a T2 school. Well for me that has not been the case at all.

My point is yes there is common wisdom, but at what point to we take someone else’s opinion to be fact that has not had any personal experience whith the subject he speaks with authority on? My cousins, brother’s dog groomer went there so I know everything about it? I mean does anyone here bashing this kid go to a T4? Has anyone here tried to get a job from Whitter, graduated from there, looked for jobs in Orange County? No. Instead we have people who don’t go to these schools and places like JD Underground again full of people who did not go to these schools telling people as if its fact what will happen to them if they go to these schools.

Hell I have enough problems telling what my future will be in 30 mins, much less someone else’s who I have never met, who is a different situation than me, who’s going to a school I have never heard of, in market I’ve never even been to what their life is going to be like in 3+ years. I guess I tend to defer  and prefer to hear it from the horse’s mouth than just chalk everything up to common wisdom.
 
Common wisdom would have said: A) I’d never get into a law school, B- I would never make through law school, C- I would graduate at the bottom of my class, D- I would never get a job from my law school. If I had listen to common wisdom I would have made some really dumb decisions for myself based on what people who are not me, not in my position told me life would be like. I’m pretty glad at this point I did not listen to them. Maybe Whitter is full of people who wished they listened to the common wisdom and did not go there, I dunno, but I bet there are at least some folks who went there and reached their personal goals. I for one am in no position to be casting the first stone however, so I won’t tell other people what their life is going to be like when I can’t even control my own.

I wish we had more students from T4 schools so would could actually here first had experiences, but I can see why, with thread like this, they don’t stick around log to share their experiences.   


Matthies - you rock.  We need more sound and mature heads like you on these boards.