Charleston School of Lawls Forum

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[Tiago Splitter]

Yay to the government for dishing out loans that are ending up funding for-profit InfiLawl schools.

[hephaestus]

Wait... I'm kind of confused. Hasn't CSOL been a member of InfiLaw for a while now?

Charlotte law has been. Not Charleston.

Oh daaaamn (and reading comp fail on my part). That is kind of lulzy in a really sad sort of way.

Yay to the government for dishing out loans that are ending up funding for-profit InfiLawl schools.

Yeah kind of pathetic that the same company owns two CSOLs, and both are laughably bad.

[Scotusnerd]

Wow, I didn't know that about Charlotte. That's horrible.

Glad I don't go to either. I love how a lot of the board of directors looked at that deal and went

[sublime]

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[20141023]

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[Scotusnerd]

Seems legit.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2013/07/31/news ... dquarters/

[Nova]

LOLOLOLOL

NO WAY

I didnt think it was possible, but that may be worse than People's College of Law

[timbs4339]

I really wish they would shut for profit schools down. Not just law schools, but all the way through. I have still yet to see a convincing argument of going to a for profit school over a CC.

Yeah... as soon as a school's outward motives are to make money instead of educate students and provide them with upward mobility, that school should no longer be allowed to exist (or at least should no longer be allowed to operate on federal funding). I have no problem with someone charging a pretty penny to teach their students a useful skill that will help them in life, but at least 7 times out of 10, that just isn't the case with these for-profit law schools. I am not sure about the employment outcomes of other for-profit schools in general, but I can't imagine that they'd be much better.

A large number of "non-profit" law schools fit this descriptions, and probably a fair number of non-profit universities too. Whether shareholders or professors or deans are taking the money, the beginning and the end are the same.

[20141023]

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[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

Seems legit.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2013/07/31/news ... dquarters/

GOLD.

That is the law school version of spraypainting "Free candy" on the side of an unmarked van.

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[crestor]

Hell, are these people real?

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"[Kelly] Barnes is moving to Charleston from Daytona Beach, Fla., today to attend the school. “I’m on pins and needles,” she said after hearing that the school might be sold.

She liked the school when she came for an interview. “They stressed that they were a smaller school that helped students,” she said. “I got a good feeling.”

Her final decision to attend was sealed when the school, with about 600 students, offered her a $10,000 scholarship. Tuition for the 2013-14 school year is about $38,000…

Barnes is married and has two children. “Moving to Charleston is a huge deal to us.”

The people I feel the worst for are those two children. Collateral damage.

This whole law school process has echoed the sentiment of survival of the fittest. The strong prey on the weak.

[serdog]

I got offered a $42,000 scholarship and was invited to apply with an E-mail that said you may have already gotten a large scholarship. I'm currently well in the top half of a top Canadian do I regret that it costs me a bit more? No.

But ya I don't have a issue with People Law School or Southern Law Centre, these school offer at a fairly reasonable price a shot at Law School for people who want to take it, I think all law school who charge over 30,000 should be in the top 50 for profit is about greed

[lawschoolwoohoo]

Friend of mine just transferred out this for-profit disaster--I was thrilled when I saw her facebook update!

[Scotusnerd]

Friend of mine just transferred out this for-profit disaster--I was thrilled when I saw her facebook update!

I think we have the same friend.

[lawschoolwoohoo]

Haha maybe! She said a lot of people she knew did the same thing though. Apparently at least some people are making the wise choice to flee to Carolina.

[serdog]

according to Charleston's 2015 class profile
http://www.charlestonlaw.edu/charleston ... c164e1.pdf their LSAT range was from 140-180 which means someone with a PERFECT LSAT is attending that school

[Nova]

Unbelievable

[Scotusnerd]

It's getting more lulzy.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2013/08/08/alex ... -tatement/

http://www.fitsnews.com/2013/08/06/sc-l ... -by-state/

Another news source:
http://www.thestate.com/2013/08/08/2907 ... eston.html

[20141023]

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[timbs4339]

according to Charleston's 2015 class profile their LSAT range was from 140-180 which means someone with a PERFECT LSAT is attending that school

I really want to believe that someone who is smart (studious?) enough to get a 180 on the LSAT would have enough common sense to know that Charleston is not worth attending. This is the only reason that I can think of why someone with a score like that would attend a god-awful place like CSOL.

Could also be someone who is tied to the Charleston area, like taking care of an elderly relative, a person with a working spouse and kids, or someone with a thriving local business who just wants to do law school for whatever reason.

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[timbs4339]

according to Charleston's 2015 class profile their LSAT range was from 140-180 which means someone with a PERFECT LSAT is attending that school

I really want to believe that someone who is smart (studious?) enough to get a 180 on the LSAT would have enough common sense to know that Charleston is not worth attending. This is the only reason that I can think of why someone with a score like that would attend a god-awful place like CSOL.

Could also be someone who is tied to the Charleston area, like taking care of an elderly relative, a person with a working spouse and kids, or someone with a thriving local business who just wants to do law school for whatever reason.

That's what I thought at first, but the more I thought about it, the less those explanations made sense. Nobody is going to get a 180 without a great deal of studying. If such a person wanted to go to CSOL from the get-go, they would have likely known that they only needed a 154 to be at the school's 75th percentile. Accordingly, the only reason that I could see someone with a 180 attending Charleston is because they had some huge flaw with their application (like a criminal record, a 1.34 GPA, etc.).

Well, CSOL is one thing, CSOL with a full scholly is another.

Or maybe they were T14 bound and then something happened in the interim.

[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

I'm more concerned by the fact that someone who is 54 years old decided that not only was law school a good investment at that age, but that plunking down six figures at the Charleston School of Law For Kids Who Can't LSAT Good and Wanna Learn How To Make Frappuccinos Faster During The 8 AM Rush Too was the right life choice to make.