Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year) Forum
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Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
Any input would be greatly appreciated
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Re: Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
Post total COA and your employment goals.
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In order to receive the best feedback in this forum, please provide as much of the following information in your original post as possible:
-The schools you are considering
-The total Cost of Attendance (COA) of each. COA = cost of tuition + fees + books + cost of living (COL) + accumulated interest - scholarships. Here is a helpful calculator
-How you will be financing your COA, i.e. loans, family, or savings
-Where you are from and where you want to work, and other places where you have significant ties (if any)
-Your general career goals
-Your LSAT/GPA numbers
-How many times you have taken the LSAT
-The schools you are considering
-The total Cost of Attendance (COA) of each. COA = cost of tuition + fees + books + cost of living (COL) + accumulated interest - scholarships. Here is a helpful calculator
-How you will be financing your COA, i.e. loans, family, or savings
-Where you are from and where you want to work, and other places where you have significant ties (if any)
-Your general career goals
-Your LSAT/GPA numbers
-How many times you have taken the LSAT
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Re: Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
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Re: Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
Brooklyn for free? If OP can keep living costs down, you've got to be mentally defective to call it a trapRegulus wrote:Considering it's these schools at these costs....
Caveat: If OP loses the scholly, s/he should drop out
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Re: Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
Sorry, should have given more info. Ill add another 25k/year for living in the city.
That would make total coa:
75k for brooklyn
180k for fordham
I would be paying almost entirely through loans.
I am from upstate ny, would like biglaw, numbers are 164/3.63 and ive taken the lsat once
That would make total coa:
75k for brooklyn
180k for fordham
I would be paying almost entirely through loans.
I am from upstate ny, would like biglaw, numbers are 164/3.63 and ive taken the lsat once
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retake. you arent gonna get biglaw from Crooklyngeneraltoast wrote:Sorry, should have given more info. Ill add another 25k/year for living in the city.
That would make total coa:
75k for brooklyn
180k for fordham
I would be paying almost entirely through loans.
I am from upstate ny, would like biglaw, numbers are 164/3.63 and ive taken the lsat once
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Re: Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
Retake is the only right answer.
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With interest Fordham is $215K and BLS is $87K.
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Re: Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
+1Regulus wrote:Considering it's these schools at these costs....
Definitely retake if you want NYC big law. Few more points and Cornell and Duke would be in sight, few more than that and CCN on down opens up to you.
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For NYC biglaw, you must retake. Cornell isn't too far away, and with a high enough LSAT your GPA doesn't preclude you from NYU or even Columbia.
Edit: scooped
Edit: scooped
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Damnit, why must you people be so logical. Thanks for the advice guys
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If you weren't so dead set on biglaw, different story, but the correct response is retake.
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I said exactly this 14 minutes before you did. You have a moral obligation to +1 me or write "Scooped."buddyt wrote:For NYC biglaw, you must retake. Cornell isn't too far away, and with a high enough LSAT your GPA doesn't preclude you from NYU or even Columbia.
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Wow, legitimately didn't notice this . Good to know that the TLS hivemind is alive and well and giving consistent and solid advice.BigZuck wrote:I said exactly this 14 minutes before you did. You have a moral obligation to +1 me or write "Scooped."buddyt wrote:For NYC biglaw, you must retake. Cornell isn't too far away, and with a high enough LSAT your GPA doesn't preclude you from NYU or even Columbia.
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Late to the party, for sure retake. Is the 164 your only take? What were you PT'ing, what did you do to study, what was your diagnostic?
Manage a ~7 point increase and come back next year and find this thread again and post on and on how you have $/$$ from T-14.
Manage a ~7 point increase and come back next year and find this thread again and post on and on how you have $/$$ from T-14.
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Re: Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
Just take Fordham off your list now. Under no circumstances is it worth 150-180k.
Retake and then evaluate your options
OP, you need at least 3 more points on your LSAT for Cornell. You need at least 5 more for Duke.BigZuck wrote:Regulus wrote:Considering it's these schools at these costs....
+1
Definitely retake if you want NYC big law. Few more points and Cornell and Duke would be in sight, few more than that and CCN on down opens up to you.
Retake and then evaluate your options
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Re: Help! Brooklyn Law(50K/year) or Fordham(15k/year)
Very attainable goals with persistence and dedicationmr.hands wrote:
OP, you need at least 3 more points on your LSAT for Cornell. You need at least 5 more for Duke.
Retake and then evaluate your options
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It was my only take. I was PTing around 166 or 165. My diagnostic cold was 154. I studied strictly 40 or so practice tests and the logical reasoning bibleTekrul wrote:Late to the party, for sure retake. Is the 164 your only take? What were you PT'ing, what did you do to study, what was your diagnostic?
Manage a ~7 point increase and come back next year and find this thread again and post on and on how you have $/$$ from T-14.
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I believe I got 4 or 5 wrongsublime wrote:No LG strategy? How did you do on those?generaltoast wrote:It was my only take. I was PTing around 166 or 165. My diagnostic cold was 154. I studied strictly 40 or so practice tests and the logical reasoning bibleTekrul wrote:Late to the party, for sure retake. Is the 164 your only take? What were you PT'ing, what did you do to study, what was your diagnostic?
Manage a ~7 point increase and come back next year and find this thread again and post on and on how you have $/$$ from T-14.
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LG is incredibly learnable. Get the LG bible and get that section to -1 or -0. There's your score to get into Cornell right there.generaltoast wrote:I believe I got 4 or 5 wrongsublime wrote:No LG strategy? How did you do on those?generaltoast wrote:It was my only take. I was PTing around 166 or 165. My diagnostic cold was 154. I studied strictly 40 or so practice tests and the logical reasoning bibleTekrul wrote:Late to the party, for sure retake. Is the 164 your only take? What were you PT'ing, what did you do to study, what was your diagnostic?
Manage a ~7 point increase and come back next year and find this thread again and post on and on how you have $/$$ from T-14.
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Slightly off subject, but is the 15k/year for a person with my numbers (164/3.63) off the waitlist at all common for Fordham? Or is it a result of the dropping application rate? Was just curious because I have heard Fordham is notoriously stingy and I was not expecting to get any money.
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