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Law School is awesome. Lotta work, lotta fun, lotta good people. I love it.
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Which school do you go to? What do you mean by the last sentence? Do schools take into account that some Universities mark harder than otherschools? For example, I'm in my 4th year at school and in every single class I've taken in the last 3 years, the class average has been in the C+ to B-range. There is a tremendous amount of grade deflation at my school, at the end of the semester the Profs have to adjust the grades in order to keep"standards high" which usually means making sure that not too many people end up with As.Originally Posted by Nako XL
I go to a top school in nyc,.Originally Posted by Carlos Tevez
Which law school do you attend? How many hours a day do you have to study? How many hours a day will you have to work once you become a lawyer? What is more important in the US, GPA or LSAT? Just wondering because I live in Canada and most law schools here wont even consider you unless you have a 3.5Originally Posted by aepps20
Where do I start?Originally Posted by Thugnificence
why do they say its hell
1. The workload is massive(I'm taking a break from my Corporations reading to type this)
2. The professors are vicious when it comes to class participation. I sometimes think some of my professors enjoy humiliating students more than teaching them
3. The grading curve. An A is only an A relative to how your classmates perform. When you have a class full of people that graduated at top of their class in undergrad you have alot of pressure just to get by.
4. Jealousy- You realize really quick which people are your friends when you get a summer associate position and they don't
I'm in class from 9-5 with a 1 hour break everyday (taking 5 classes this semester, 1 just ended) but i study about 3-4 hours a night after.
When you're first starting out you're going to have to pull 50-80 hour work weeks, typically 6 days a week. Do the math.
A really good LSAT score can cause schools to overlook a bad gpa. more so than vice versa. My lsat was stronger than my gpa, but i wasnt a bad student either way.
And yea, depending where you go to school, the grading curve can either be a blessing or a burden in disguise.
I've posted where I go a few times on NT, but I'm not really huge on completely putting myself out there on here anymore. I'll behappy to answer any of the more personal questions you've got over PM though.Originally Posted by Carlos Tevez
Which school do you go to? What do you mean by the last sentence? Do schools take into account that some Universities mark harder than other schools? For example, I'm in my 4th year at school and in every single class I've taken in the last 3 years, the class average has been in the C+ to B- range. There is a tremendous amount of grade deflation at my school, at the end of the semester the Profs have to adjust the grades in order to keep "standards high" which usually means making sure that not too many people end up with As.Originally Posted by Nako XL
I go to a top school in nyc,.Originally Posted by Carlos Tevez
Which law school do you attend? How many hours a day do you have to study? How many hours a day will you have to work once you become a lawyer? What is more important in the US, GPA or LSAT? Just wondering because I live in Canada and most law schools here wont even consider you unless you have a 3.5Originally Posted by aepps20
Where do I start?Originally Posted by Thugnificence
why do they say its hell
1. The workload is massive(I'm taking a break from my Corporations reading to type this)
2. The professors are vicious when it comes to class participation. I sometimes think some of my professors enjoy humiliating students more than teaching them
3. The grading curve. An A is only an A relative to how your classmates perform. When you have a class full of people that graduated at top of their class in undergrad you have alot of pressure just to get by.
4. Jealousy- You realize really quick which people are your friends when you get a summer associate position and they don't
I'm in class from 9-5 with a 1 hour break everyday (taking 5 classes this semester, 1 just ended) but i study about 3-4 hours a night after.
When you're first starting out you're going to have to pull 50-80 hour work weeks, typically 6 days a week. Do the math.
A really good LSAT score can cause schools to overlook a bad gpa. more so than vice versa. My lsat was stronger than my gpa, but i wasnt a bad student either way.
And yea, depending where you go to school, the grading curve can either be a blessing or a burden in disguise.
Make sure you take classes that are intellectually challenging and classes where you get to write.
Hence history major.
Thinking about minoring in philosophy or psychology.
I bet we could lol. I have this one professor who has a penchant for saying "expound". It's like the running joke amongst myclassmates lol. I can't even hear that word anymore without laughing. And how could I forget the good ol' Socratic method!Originally Posted by norcalballgirl23
^^nice to see a 1L in here. bet we could swap stories lol
i'm a 1L too. and WOW i spend waaaayyyy too much time at school. law school is kicking my #** lol soooo much reading and preparation. i'm an analytical thinker so i enjoy it conceptually but damn! lol
basically it's super demanding, fun at times, kind of a weird community to join but being apart of a legal community is and will be awesome. you and your friends will become odd and make dumb law jokes ("learned hand" "tortfeasor" "RPP" "promissory estoppel" "malice aforethought" etc) BUT they will be hilarious to you at the time so it's worth your non-law school friends being weirded out/thinking you've become square. ummm what else? oh yeah like ravage said, the curve is a monster lol and so is the socratic method. you dunno anything about being on the spot until you get cold called in front of 200 people about 1 of the 20 cases you briefed last night and you're still not entirely sure what the rule of law is and how the court changed it from the prior case. IT'S AWESOME lmao
but anyway, the economy is bad, education is always good. so i saw go for it! oh yeah and i almost forgot, bountiful food and alcohol at pretty much every event. =)
There's no such thing as a wrong path to law school. The thing is the more you blend into a crowd, i.e. look like every other applicant theyget, the tougher ur chances are going to be. I mean if they get 300 other apps that look just like yours, what about you compels them to choose you? How doyou stand out from the crowd? You feel me? All this "major in this/major in that" talk really means nothing at the end of the day. You could be achem major, as long as your gpa/LSATs are good and your essay and recommendations really paint a picture of you as an individual and unique and interestingperson you're good money. Hell if you CAN major in chem and find a way to tie that into why you're interested in law that's exactly the kind ofuniqueness im talking about. I was an English and Child Development/Psychology double major in college. Hardly the poli-sci/history/econ kid you heareveryone talking about. You just have to find ways to stand out from the crowd and make the schools want to recruit YOU. I have an ex pro hockey player,professional ballet dancer, and a physics phd who taught at michigan st. for 7 years in my section of my class alone. That's cool.Originally Posted by freshhh
so my counselor said i should consider becoming an economic or political science major?
im taking one of each class next semester and im most likely going to choose econ as my major..
am i going down the wrong path?
id also like to attend Cal-Berkeley for law school. or Hastings in SF. How are those(mainly Hastings) and are there any other good law schools in CA?
amen, to that!Originally Posted by norcalballgirl23
^^nice to see a 1L in here. bet we could swap stories lol
i'm a 1L too. and WOW i spend waaaayyyy too much time at school. law school is kicking my #** lol soooo much reading and preparation. i'm an analytical thinker so i enjoy it conceptually but damn! lol
basically it's super demanding, fun at times, kind of a weird community to join but being apart of a legal community is and will be awesome. you and your friends will become odd and make dumb law jokes ("learned hand" "tortfeasor" "RPP" "promissory estoppel" "malice aforethought" etc) BUT they will be hilarious to you at the time so it's worth your non-law school friends being weirded out/thinking you've become square. ummm what else? oh yeah like ravage said, the curve is a monster lol and so is the socratic method. you dunno anything about being on the spot until you get cold called in front of 200 people about 1 of the 20 cases you briefed last night and you're still not entirely sure what the rule of law is and how the court changed it from the prior case. IT'S AWESOME lmao
but anyway, the economy is bad, education is always good. so i saw go for it! oh yeah and i almost forgot, bountiful food and alcohol at pretty much every event. =)
ive heard that's partially (mostly?) a result of maturity and better psychological preparationOriginally Posted by truthmain
The LSAT seemed harder than the Bar imo, and I'm practicing in California, which is notorious for being one of the most difficult Bars in the country. Take a prep course if you can.