my god, they do everything right, dont they??
I concur. They have by far the most sensible, rational, and easy to deal with policies and processes on every front, of any law school I've dealt with.
my god, they do everything right, dont they??
seagull48 wrote:i'm going to back up everything britt said about michigan. i love it so much, i'm actually considering working in detroit this summer.
One thing I saw many, many times that sort of captures the "collegiality" idea. Particularly your first semester, getting called on in class can be terrifying and traumatic. If someone did a particularly good job, lots of fellow students would congratulate them afterwards----not just their close friends, but other folks in the class as well. Conversely, if someone got raked over the coals, they would get a lot of "Cheer up, it can happen to anyone" comments from other students. Once in a while, if the professor allowed it, a student would volunteer to try and bail out a student who was having trouble--not to show off, but to try and get the first student off of the hook. It was only when the the true buttheads (and there were very few) screwed up that other students would smirk. Also, I heard stories from lawyers I knew who went to other schools about the key library books being hidden by other students, attempts at basically badgering students to get them to let the badger copy outlines the student had personally made, and similar "in your face" stuff. I never, ever heard any of that at Michigan. Even the moot court competition-----which is you and your partner against two fellow students, with only one team advancing----was not a "me versus you" mindset. Not to be too corny, but the feeling overall, especially when it most mattered (the first year) was very similar to being on a team. You and your classmates VS "THE LAW", as it were. I of course have no way of knowing how much of this was still true, but every comment you made seemed very familiar. Just as [another school] seems to attract and/or create A-holes, Michigan seems to attract and nourish truly decent people.
Usually people don't use the words "cool" or "interesting" when describing the anticipated debt...
cooldog86 wrote:Man....I'll prolly apply to Mich for next yr, done taking my LSAT, actually did my undergrad in Mich for Math and Econ, although I hear they're not too keen on picking their own for Law school, hope thats a rumor. But yeah, the Law school is fantastic, I took a few Econ classes in the law quad area, somewhat dimly lit classrooms but I think they're working on it due to student suggestions. My LSAT is pretty good but with my dismal GPA of 2.9...Im definitely going to keep my fingers crossed, but congrats to all of you and I hope to see some of you in Ann Arbor this fall..it is a great town, although football will probably suck next year...Terrelle Pryor is a lil b****. Eh..anyway good luck to those waiting on admission and congrats to those who got in!
scarletmuse wrote:cooldog86 wrote:Man....I'll prolly apply to Mich for next yr, done taking my LSAT, actually did my undergrad in Mich for Math and Econ, although I hear they're not too keen on picking their own for Law school, hope thats a rumor. But yeah, the Law school is fantastic, I took a few Econ classes in the law quad area, somewhat dimly lit classrooms but I think they're working on it due to student suggestions. My LSAT is pretty good but with my dismal GPA of 2.9...Im definitely going to keep my fingers crossed, but congrats to all of you and I hope to see some of you in Ann Arbor this fall..it is a great town, although football will probably suck next year...Terrelle Pryor is a lil b****. Eh..anyway good luck to those waiting on admission and congrats to those who got in!
It's very much a rumor. A HUGE number of students here are UofM undergrads.
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