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[howlery]

Especially when you consider UF/FSU is basically the same price for in-state.

Yeah, and between FIU and UF, guess which one gives you a marginally better shot at a job?

http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=florida
http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=fiu


But JamesDean is correct, the best option for a Floridian is to go to a better school out of state and try to come back. Although that rad law guy warns against the value of prestige once you strike out at OCI.

I know this is an alt but becoming the bearsgrl equivalent for FIU isn't a good look either.

Or you could go to FSU and have the best shot of finding a legal job. Its just as easy to get in to and cheaper than FIU when you factor in cost of living. The class size is less than 200 (more than FIU but less than UF). TCR is to retake and GTFO of Florida, but if you must stay go to FSU.

http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=fsu
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[JamesDean1955]

Especially when you consider UF/FSU is basically the same price for in-state.

Yeah, and between FIU and UF, guess which one gives you a marginally better shot at a job?

http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=florida
http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=fiu


But JamesDean is correct, the best option for a Floridian is to go to a better school out of state and try to come back. Although that rad law guy warns against the value of prestige once you strike out at OCI.

I take everything that guy says with a big grain of salt. IMO, if you lived/went to school/worked in Florida pre-law school, I think at equal grades, a Florida legal organization (DA's office, etc.) would look at someone who went to Columbia more favorably than someone who went to FIU/Nova/FL Coastal/Stetson/FL A&M/etc.. UF/USF/FSU are big Florida names, so maybe the difference would be less for those schools vs. a T14. However, there would be networking advantages to staying in FL for law school, and if you strike out at OCI and are looking at going into small law/PI/government (before any angry a-holes jump on me, note that I am not calling govt/PI a fallback option), connections make a big deal as there are far fewer of those types of jobs. However, IMO one could easily overcome that by working their 1L and/or 2L summers in FL, and networking their ass off (which we should all be doing anyways).

I'm not even in school yet, and I've already been contacted by someone who is an alumnus at T14 I'm going to, is a partner at a biglaw firm at their FL office, and we went to the same FL undergrad. I'm going to be in correspondence with him for sure. There are all sorts of opportunities like these that people can take advantage of.

[FKASunny]

IMO, if you lived/went to school/worked in Florida pre-law school, I think at equal grades, a Florida legal organization (DA's office, etc.) would look at someone who went to Columbia more favorably than someone who went to FIU/Nova/FL Coastal/Stetson/FL A&M/etc.. UF/USF/FSU are big Florida names

Oh, god, I hope USF never opens a law school.

[JamesDean1955]

IMO, if you lived/went to school/worked in Florida pre-law school, I think at equal grades, a Florida legal organization (DA's office, etc.) would look at someone who went to Columbia more favorably than someone who went to FIU/Nova/FL Coastal/Stetson/FL A&M/etc.. UF/USF/FSU are big Florida names

Oh, god, I hope USF never opens a law school.

Oops didn't mean to include them

[Balleeta]

I imagine that all of you here are either law students or prospective law students; please, grow up and get a life. It is so ridiculous to see grown people judging a school just based on what they (think) they know about it. Who cares? If you don't want to go to FIU, don't go. Don't judge people that go either. We have enough morons in the workplace who judge people by ridiculous standards (i.e. glamour of the school they attended). Study hard, become a good and ethical professional, and earn your respect as a lawyer. There are many people who graduated from top law schools who are absolutely stupid and unwise; and folks who graduated from smaller, unknown schools who are fantastic professionals.

[JamMasterJ]

While I don't condone the bullshit spewing out of a lot of TTTs, this is the law school admissions forum for fucking applicants. If someone's asking whether they should attend FIU, you can call them a dumbass or whatever, but this isn't the place for 1Ls to come bash.

[mephistopheles]

While I don't condone the bullshit spewing out of a lot of TTTs, this is the top law school admissions forum for top fucking applicants.

[JamMasterJ]

While I don't condone the bullshit spewing out of a lot of TTTs, this is the top law school admissions forum for top fucking applicants.

I understand your sentiment and agree that they probably shouldn't have posted here, but it's still not the right place for current students to troll

[071816]

95% of graduates are employed within 9 months of graduation. Also, the career center at FIU is very helpful with finding jobs for current law students and graduates.

lol

[Yukos]

I imagine that all of you here are either law students or prospective law students; please, grow up and get a life. It is so ridiculous to see grown people judging a school just based on what they (think) they know about it. Who cares? If you don't want to go to FIU, don't go. Don't judge people that go either. We have enough morons in the workplace who judge people by ridiculous standards (i.e. glamour of the school they attended). Study hard, become a good and ethical professional, and earn your respect as a lawyer. There are many people who graduated from top law schools who are absolutely stupid and unwise; and folks who graduated from smaller, unknown schools who are fantastic professionals.

The problem is 45% of graduates of FIU won't get the chance to become professionals at all. We're not judging the students, we're judging a school that opened fairly recently in an over-saturated market and that struggles to place half of its students in full-time, long-term, bar-passage-required jobs.

[mephistopheles]

I imagine that all of you here are either law students or prospective law students; please, grow up and get a life. It is so ridiculous to see grown people judging a school just based on what they (think) they know about it. Who cares? If you don't want to go to FIU, don't go. Don't judge people that go either. We have enough morons in the workplace who judge people by ridiculous standards (i.e. glamour of the school they attended). Study hard, become a good and ethical professional, and earn your respect as a lawyer. There are many people who graduated from top law schools who are absolutely stupid and unwise; and folks who graduated from smaller, unknown schools who are fantastic professionals.

The problem is 45% of graduates of FIU won't get the chance to become professionals at all. We're not judging the students, we're judging a school that opened fairly recently in an over-saturated market and that struggles to place half of its students in full-time, long-term, bar-passage-required jobs.

also, please take your single indignant post and leave. perhaps you'd have some time to work on that reading comprehension of yours?

[LRGhost]

I imagine that all of you here are either law students or prospective law students; please, grow up and get a life. It is so ridiculous to see grown people judging a school just based on what they (think) they know about it. Who cares? If you don't want to go to FIU, don't go. Don't judge people that go either. We have enough morons in the workplace who judge people by ridiculous standards (i.e. glamour of the school they attended). Study hard, become a good and ethical professional, and earn your respect as a lawyer. There are many people who graduated from top law schools who are absolutely stupid and unwise; and folks who graduated from smaller, unknown schools who are fantastic professionals.

Stop being an obtuse jerk. If you go to FIU law, you probably won't become a lawyer so the rest of your statement is moot.

[20141023]

I imagine that all of you here are either law students or prospective law students; please, grow up and get a life. It is so ridiculous to see grown people judging a school just based on what they (think) they know about it. Who cares? If you don't want to go to FIU, don't go. Don't judge people that go either. We have enough morons in the workplace who judge people by ridiculous standards (i.e. glamour of the school they attended). Study hard, become a good and ethical professional, and earn your respect as a lawyer. There are many people who graduated from top law schools who are absolutely stupid and unwise; and folks who graduated from smaller, unknown schools who are fantastic professionals.

You are right. Allow me to apologize on behalf of the other members here at TLS who don't realize what ignorant, condescending twits we've all been in this thread. I hope they can one day come to terms with the fact that FIU offers wonderful career opportunities to many of its students in spite of its low rank among the meaningless USNWR rankings. After having done more research about this school, I can honestly say that it is a splendid place to receive a legal education if one aspires to have a 50/50 chance at working at a small (less than 25 attorneys) law firm; I honestly cannot think of a better way to spend 3 years of one's life and tens of thousands of dollars.

[itachiuchiha]

I imagine that all of you here are either law students or prospective law students; please, grow up and get a life. It is so ridiculous to see grown people judging a school just based on what they (think) they know about it. Who cares? If you don't want to go to FIU, don't go. Don't judge people that go either. We have enough morons in the workplace who judge people by ridiculous standards (i.e. glamour of the school they attended). Study hard, become a good and ethical professional, and earn your respect as a lawyer. There are many people who graduated from top law schools who are absolutely stupid and unwise; and folks who graduated from smaller, unknown schools who are fantastic professionals.

sounds like a 2 or 3L from FIU law who just made an account to get us to stop bashing the school which may rightfully deserve the bashing. This person probably wakes up everyday regretting their decision to attend FIU.

[BlueDiamond]

I imagine that all of you here are either law students or prospective law students; please, grow up and get a life. It is so ridiculous to see grown people judging a school just based on what they (think) they know about it. Who cares? If you don't want to go to FIU, don't go. Don't judge people that go either. We have enough morons in the workplace who judge people by ridiculous standards (i.e. glamour of the school they attended). Study hard, become a good and ethical professional, and earn your respect as a lawyer. There are many people who graduated from top law schools who are absolutely stupid and unwise; and folks who graduated from smaller, unknown schools who are fantastic professionals.

theres a difference between bashing someone for attending a school and bashing them for trying to peddle the school as a great place to go for employment by posting false statistics - especially when you look back and see that the person(s) is/are school ambassadors meaning they probably get minimum wage under some work study program to do the school's dirty work

[slawww]

theres a difference between bashing someone for attending a school and bashing them for trying to peddle the school as a great place to go for employment by posting false statistics - especially when you look back and see that the person(s) is/are school ambassadors meaning they probably get minimum wage under some work study program to do the school's dirty work

Agree with this.

While I don't condone the bullshit spewing out of a lot of TTTs, this is the top law school admissions forum for top fucking applicants.

I understand your sentiment and agree that they probably shouldn't have posted here, but it's still not the right place for current students to troll

Disagree with this. This forum is called Top-Law-Schools because it sounds good (it is a business after all), not because it's exclusively intended for applicants to "top" schools, wherever you'd draw that line. If anything, people considering applying to schools like Cooley, etc. should be especially welcomed here, because they might get the help and info they desperately need.

[mephistopheles]

theres a difference between bashing someone for attending a school and bashing them for trying to peddle the school as a great place to go for employment by posting false statistics - especially when you look back and see that the person(s) is/are school ambassadors meaning they probably get minimum wage under some work study program to do the school's dirty work

Agree with this.

While I don't condone the bullshit spewing out of a lot of TTTs, this is the top law school admissions forum for top fucking applicants.

I understand your sentiment and agree that they probably shouldn't have posted here, but it's still not the right place for current students to troll

Disagree with this. This forum is called Top-Law-Schools because it sounds good (it is a business after all), not because it's exclusively intended for applicants to "top" schools, wherever you'd draw that line. If anything, people considering applying to schools like Cooley, etc. should be especially welcomed here, because they might get the help and info they desperately need.

which is exactly what the bashing is for. people looking at cooley and fiu can come here, see the shit that gets thrown around, and should be on notice at that point.

[rad lulz]

Especially when you consider UF/FSU is basically the same price for in-state.

Yeah, and between FIU and UF, guess which one gives you a marginally better shot at a job?

http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=florida
http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=fiu


But JamesDean is correct, the best option for a Floridian is to go to a better school out of state and try to come back. Although that rad law guy warns against the value of prestige once you strike out at OCI.

I take everything that guy says with a big grain of salt. IMO, if you lived/went to school/worked in Florida pre-law school, I think at equal grades, a Florida legal organization (DA's office, etc.) would look at someone who went to Columbia more favorably than someone who went to FIU/Nova/FL Coastal/Stetson/FL A&M/etc.. UF/USF/FSU are big Florida names, so maybe the difference would be less for those schools vs. a T14. However, there would be networking advantages to staying in FL for law school, and if you strike out at OCI and are looking at going into small law/PI/government (before any angry a-holes jump on me, note that I am not calling govt/PI a fallback option), connections make a big deal as there are far fewer of those types of jobs. However, IMO one could easily overcome that by working their 1L and/or 2L summers in FL, and networking their ass off (which we should all be doing anyways).

I'm not even in school yet, and I've already been contacted by someone who is an alumnus at T14 I'm going to, is a partner at a biglaw firm at their FL office, and we went to the same FL undergrad. I'm going to be in correspondence with him for sure. There are all sorts of opportunities like these that people can take advantage of.

lol you 0L

I did a FL 3L jerb search from a "preftigious" out of state skool

But hey I bet you know more ab it than me

[BigZuck]

theres a difference between bashing someone for attending a school and bashing them for trying to peddle the school as a great place to go for employment by posting false statistics - especially when you look back and see that the person(s) is/are school ambassadors meaning they probably get minimum wage under some work study program to do the school's dirty work

Agree with this.

While I don't condone the bullshit spewing out of a lot of TTTs, this is the top law school admissions forum for top fucking applicants.

I understand your sentiment and agree that they probably shouldn't have posted here, but it's still not the right place for current students to troll

Disagree with this. This forum is called Top-Law-Schools because it sounds good (it is a business after all), not because it's exclusively intended for applicants to "top" schools, wherever you'd draw that line. If anything, people considering applying to schools like Cooley, etc. should be especially welcomed here, because they might get the help and info they desperately need.

How do you know what the intention of this site's founders were?

[rad lulz]

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 1&t=14#p30

Ken poasting in an "online law schools" thread

The top law schools moniker is a farce

I feel betrayed

[slawww]

How do you know what the intention of this site's founders were?

It's pretty clear that I'm speculating here, as is everyone else, since I did not found TLS. Though I think it's pretty obvious TLS wants to make as much money as possible via advertising as possible. So the more traffic they can generate - mere speculation again, of course - the better.

[JamesDean1955]

Especially when you consider UF/FSU is basically the same price for in-state.

Yeah, and between FIU and UF, guess which one gives you a marginally better shot at a job?

http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=florida
http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=fiu


But JamesDean is correct, the best option for a Floridian is to go to a better school out of state and try to come back. Although that rad law guy warns against the value of prestige once you strike out at OCI.

I take everything that guy says with a big grain of salt. IMO, if you lived/went to school/worked in Florida pre-law school, I think at equal grades, a Florida legal organization (DA's office, etc.) would look at someone who went to Columbia more favorably than someone who went to FIU/Nova/FL Coastal/Stetson/FL A&M/etc.. UF/USF/FSU are big Florida names, so maybe the difference would be less for those schools vs. a T14. However, there would be networking advantages to staying in FL for law school, and if you strike out at OCI and are looking at going into small law/PI/government (before any angry a-holes jump on me, note that I am not calling govt/PI a fallback option), connections make a big deal as there are far fewer of those types of jobs. However, IMO one could easily overcome that by working their 1L and/or 2L summers in FL, and networking their ass off (which we should all be doing anyways).

I'm not even in school yet, and I've already been contacted by someone who is an alumnus at T14 I'm going to, is a partner at a biglaw firm at their FL office, and we went to the same FL undergrad. I'm going to be in correspondence with him for sure. There are all sorts of opportunities like these that people can take advantage of.

lol you 0L

I did a FL 3L jerb search from a "preftigious" out of state skool

But hey I bet you know more ab it than me

Look dude, you obviously fucked up law school, missed the biglaw boat, and fucked up in other ways I really could care less about. Now you spend all your time on TLS all day criticizing others and repeating the same old "don't go to law school" "there are no jobs" "dumb 0l this and dumb 0L that" spiels. We get it dude, or bro, or whatever other jargon you care to use - the legal industry sucks, special snowflake syndrome, etc. etc. How old are you, and did you work before law school? Because you seem ridiculously ignorant and immature. Just shut the fuck up already and realize you don't know it all and aren't the go to authoritative source for everything. Maybe go out and get a life, spend more time with that SO (or is it wife) of yours, and stop racking up (mostly) useless 15,000 post counts on alt after alt? No one other than a handful of your cronies on here gives a shit about your anguished bullshit. Seriously, I pity you. Have a nice day, continue doing what you're doing for all I care.

[JamMasterJ]

Look dude, you obviously fucked up law school, missed the biglaw boat, and fucked up in other ways I really could care less about. Now you spend all your time on TLS all day criticizing others and repeating the same old "don't go to law school" "there are no jobs" "dumb 0l this and dumb 0L that" spiels. We get it dude, or bro, or whatever other jargon you care to use - the legal industry sucks, special snowflake syndrome, etc. etc. How old are you, and did you work before law school? Because you seem ridiculously ignorant and immature. Just shut the fuck up already and realize you don't know it all and aren't the go to authoritative source for everything. Maybe go out and get a life, spend more time with that SO (or is it wife) of yours, and stop racking up (mostly) useless 15,000 post counts on alt after alt? No one other than a handful of your cronies on here gives a shit about your anguished bullshit. Seriously, I pity you. Have a nice day, continue doing what you're doing for all I care.

neither dude nor bro is jargon

[stillwater]

Look dude, you obviously fucked up law school, missed the biglaw boat, and fucked up in other ways I really could care less about. Now you spend all your time on TLS all day criticizing others and repeating the same old "don't go to law school" "there are no jobs" "dumb 0l this and dumb 0L that" spiels. We get it dude, or bro, or whatever other jargon you care to use - the legal industry sucks, special snowflake syndrome, etc. etc. How old are you, and did you work before law school? Because you seem ridiculously ignorant and immature. Just shut the fuck up already and realize you don't know it all and aren't the go to authoritative source for everything. Maybe go out and get a life, spend more time with that SO (or is it wife) of yours, and stop racking up (mostly) useless 15,000 post counts on alt after alt? No one other than a handful of your cronies on here gives a shit about your anguished bullshit. Seriously, I pity you. Have a nice day, continue doing what you're doing for all I care.

neither dude nor bro is jargon

this Jimmy Dean character is a buffoon.

[rad lulz]

Look dude, you obviously fucked up law school, missed the biglaw boat, and fucked up in other ways I really could care less about. Now you spend all your time on TLS all day criticizing others and repeating the same old "don't go to law school" "there are no jobs" "dumb 0l this and dumb 0L that" spiels. We get it dude, or bro, or whatever other jargon you care to use. The legal industry sucks, special snowflake syndrome, etc. etc. Just shut the fuck up already and realize you don't know it all and aren't the go to authoritative source for everything. Maybe go out and get a life, spend more time with that SO (or is it wife) of yours, and stop racking up (mostly) useless 15,000 post counts on alt after alt? No one other than a handful of your cronies on here gives a shit about your anguished bullshit. Seriously, I pity you. Have a nice day, continue doing what you're doing for all I care.

Lol I didn't read this

But you seem mad

Y u so mad 0L?