Okay, I have heard nothing but amazing things about Vandy Law... which is great.
However, there has to be some negatives... you current Vandy students, what are some of the areas Vanderbilt could improve on/ lags behind in as compared to some similarly ranked schools (UCLA, Georgetown) and similarly located schools (Duke, Emory)? I know you aren't students at these other schools, but by now I have the feeling you are aware of some not-so-great points.
You know, I have been thinking for a while about this question. I am a transfer student so I have 1 other school to compare Vandy (Not any of the schools you mentioned). I love Vandy and am so greatful I transferred. I really cannot think of one thing about Vandy that I don't like at least as well as my other school. The one drawback I could finally find is that Vandy's cafe does not have soda fountains. Thus, if you need a long caffeine fix you have to go across the street to Subway or purchase a can. Not a deal breaker, but something to keep in mind...
Our Admin Law prof could be a little more engaging, don't you think??? [sorry, figured out who you were already. it is a small school, after all... and there are only so many transfers].
Wow that is impressive. I thought it would take at least a few more posts on here discussing Vandy before anyone realized who I was. I might as well just move to the picture profile. 
I definitely agree that Admin law professor could be more engaging, but hey he is technically a Emory professor, so it really can't be a Vandy drawback.
What gave me away other than the transfer comment?
I may or may not have a team of sleuth 1Ls who find joy in googling people's usernames and seeing whether or not they happen to have written for blogs at their former school.
But yeah, I'll let you know how the self-tar goes if prospectives recognize me at the first ASW next month... it might end up being more hassle than it's worth. On a related note, school will be adding to the student profiles section soon... they had a photo shoot last year involving a solid 1/4 of the class, so a good number of us are going to be losing our anonymity very soon.
And it's true about Admin, but I asked the Emory kids for info on him before enrolling and they had nothing but positive things to say about him, so now I question whether they were just throwing me under the bus. I actually do like the material, and they were right on about only having like 10 pages to read per week. I would probably still recommend the prof for people looking to do regulatory work, though I have yet to see how it builds on the Reg State course we took as 1Ls. It looks like the classpak is basically unchanged except for some parentheticals about how 'we've already covered X material but will look at it again in this course because it's important.' Methinks the repetition may give us natural-born 2Ls an advantage over you foreigners. Thankfully for me that's my first class of the day so I can be up this late and still get my 8 hours of sleep in.
I was recently wait listed at Vandy and am curious how many grads go to CA? I would want to practice in CA after I graduate.
Bruin, I think I've sent you the links to the employment info before, so I'll let the 1Ls who are thinking about working on the left coast comment. They know more about class breakdown than I do. For placement success we'll have the Class of '08 data out in a month which you can compare with any data the website has on where they're from geographically. And my year's 2L info will be published later in the spring with the Recruitment Handbook.
G'luck if you choose to ride out the WL... definitely see if you can swing a visit our way at some point and set up a meeting to talk about placement on the left coast. JNSL has a theory that they focus a lot on where people are from in pulling off the WL, so you might be at an advantage if the west isn't well-represented after deposits are put down.
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