Law School Discussion

Yes, I also originally put a lot of stock in my LSAT score. However, in my first round of applications, I picked 7 schools and UH was my safety school. I am from Houston, I love Texas, and I was very excited about UH.

And they rejected me.

My 2.19 is because my first 45 hours of school, when I was 16-19 years old, I was a bonehead and did boneheaded things. Then starting at 28, I got a degree but all of my hours were ungraded.

I think the GPA is just too much for ADCOMMS to handle. They just don't know how to evaluate it.

If anyone would like to recommend a school besides Cooley or Florida Coastal (already accepted) that will love my numbers, please do.

Like many, I applied to Valparaiso because of the fee waiver. After being dinged by Houston, I panicked and applied to every school that gave me a waiver except Ave Maria. I am still very worried.

It is March 1st already, and I have no idea how to decide where to go. At this rate, I will likely be choosing between paying full price for schools like DePaul and getting lots of money from Cooley.

Here are the factors that I am considering so far:

• Quality of the education
• Cost of the school
• Cost of living for the location
• Desire to live at location for 2 1/2 years
• Course catalog (international, comparative, constitutional)
• Reputation of the school in law
• Reputation of the school outside of law
• Joint degree programs

Things I am not the least bit interested in:

• Average salary of graduates
• Employment rates after graduation
• Enrollment demographics
• Average LSAT or GPA

The application process has been very stressful to me. I am not convinced that I have a good process for choosing a school. So, I am not sure if I am applying to the right schools. I have been tempted to literally apply to 150 schools just to see what happens. I have not done so mostly because it would cost $1800 in LSDAS report fees, not to mention application fees.

I don’t want to be a lawyer and I don’t even think I want to teach law, but I really do want to learn about law. I also want to leave my options open, in case I like law so much that I decide to do lawyering.

I have not seen any posts on this board from people that want to go to law just to learn about the law. I sure would love to find someone else that has figured this crap out already.

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Thanks

I just hit 1000 views on LSN - It's almost like seeing 100,000 miles on your car.

If I tried to explain this to my GF, I think she would just stare at me, so I am positing it here...

I can't wait to get off work.

I was defered in December and got my rejection today. I expected to get rejected when I applied, but I hoped that my PS was enough to make it in. I guess it was enough to get deferred, but...

Oh, well. One has to pay for their youthful indescrecions. (Well, not everyone, I guess.)

I wrote a new PS and an additional addendum and mailed them to Harvard and Yale today. I am hoping that 3 more months of researching how the admissions offices work has helped me to make a better attempt.

I read cnn.com regularly and I like the "Law" section, of course. I don't typically notice author's names on articles, but over the last few months, I have noticed that I like the articles written by Sherry Colb. For example, http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/23/colb.embryos/index.html

I also noticed that she is a professor at Rutgers. I have not applied to Rutgers, but should I _consider_ doing so based on just this? Is anyone else applying to a law school partly because of a professor?

Hunter