Law School Discussion

Congrats Bloomich and fatcat!  Go got yourself some champagne or something!  I spent quite a bit of time just saying "wow" after I got the call from Dean Zearfoss last month.  It's quite a big draw!  I also was hoping to get out of the midwest for law school, but as I plan on public interest the scholarship is pretty wonderful.  So Michigan is topping my list at the moment (though only time will tell).

So far Dean Zearfoss has been really helpful answering my questions about the Darrow.  In fact she even asked around about some questions I had about the public schools, which is wonderful.  From what I gather people really only turn it down for HYS and they don't always do that.  After all, only a dozen or so people get the Darrow each year, hundreds get into HYS.  Just food for thought.

congrats!! i'm confused... you received the darrow last month?

call from Dean Zearfoss today... i'm a full darrow

Yeah my email didn't say he was very impressed...but he said it in the interview. The fact is that if you have the email then you have one foot in the door. Depending on the interview, the other foot could go in or both feet get kicked out. It is def. a good thing.

Think of it this way. Everyone who has gotten in has gotten an email. No one who has not gotten an email has been admitted.

exactly... and at least on LSD, haven't the vast majority of those that have received the email been accepted?

mine said... "I just read your file and am very impressed."... i'm pretty sure su's read similarly... i thought JG's did as well--are you sure yours didn't?... so far, a phone call has generally meant very good things... so, be happy you got the email and be your sweet, lovable self on the phone... don't really know you, jsia

Quote from: bloomich on December 28, 2005, 03:51:32 PM

i.e., my sense of self-identity, to me, means something different than my sense of identity or my identity... and my self-identity loses something... it's a sense of identity... and it's one that deals with my understanding of myself as a person

That's what a sense of identity IS. How else are you to understand yourself but as a person?? Believe me, there is no such thing as a sense of self-identity...

Anyway..

relax, dude... i'm not taking this personally, so i'm not sure why you are... i appreciate you taking the time to help flesh out areas of concern in my work...

for one, you can conceivably conceive of yourself as anything... but more to your point, self-identity would be your conception of your entire person... where as you can also conceive of specific aspects of your person.. so here i'm talking about how religious identity (a potential aspect of my person) no longer exists as part of my conception of my whole person...

for kicks, i'm not going to believe you, how is there no such thing as a sense of self-identity... is it logically contradictory?... i mean, i think identity is a sense of self... so perhaps i'm being redundant... but i wanted to be clear that i'm talking about self-identity as a collective sense of your whole person... how you envision and conceive of yourself...

and again, i'm not trying to be defensive here but i think it's fruitful to have disagreements and discuss them... and again, i appreciate your help...