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heyguys wrote:

JSUVA2012 wrote:I'd say it follows a curve, in a way:

~20% of people do very little beyond reading the cases, may not even outline for exams.

~60% do the standard stuff, but don't go the extra mile. They read all the cases, they outline, they take some or all of the professor's practice exams, they use the E&Es/Gilbert's/Emanuels but aren't drilling BLL or practice questions.

~20% do everything imaginable, outline early, do tons of practice questions in the E&E, leave no stone unturned.

I know of some people who were drilling hypos with each other on a bi-weekly basis as early as September. I know of some people who didn't start outlining until 5 days before the first exam and probably never cracked open a supplement or did a single practice question.

Ah, that's interesting. I think I probably would be in the 60% category. Another question that's related to this: do you find that the varying groups like the law more or less than the others, or is this stratification primarily a result of career ambition?

I feel like I could imagine it cutting either way: the gunners (?) 20% hating the law because they have to spend so much time with it, or the gunners loving the law for the same reason. And maybe for the 60% they love the law but just have a happy medium?

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mallard wrote:
If you use the phrase "cutting either way" while speaking to anyone besides a professor, chances are you're one of the gunners.

I think this 20%/60%/20% model is a little silly. The "leave no stone unturned" approach smacks of 1L insanity and inefficiency.

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Dear people who have treated me like I'm bottom of the curve material at UoC because I'm a transfer student and don't extensively brief cases/highlight my book/etc. and didn't come from an ivy league school:

I won't say anything to you personally, but allow me to express the same sentiment that I expressed to people last year who assumed that, because I went to a shitty state school and got a "useless" degree I would be at the bottom of the class:

Fuck you, now go get me my coffee

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Dear people who have treated me like I'm bottom of the curve material at UoC because I'm a transfer student and don't extensively brief cases/highlight my book/etc. and didn't come from an ivy league school:

I won't say anything to you personally, but allow me to express the same sentiment that I expressed to people last year who assumed that, because I went to a shitty state school and got a "useless" degree I would be at the bottom of the class:

Fuck you, now go get me my coffee

thesealocust wrote:

OperaSoprano wrote:

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Dear people who have treated me like I'm bottom of the curve material at UoC because I'm a transfer student and don't extensively brief cases/highlight my book/etc. and didn't come from an ivy league school:

I won't say anything to you personally, but allow me to express the same sentiment that I expressed to people last year who assumed that, because I went to a shitty state school and got a "useless" degree I would be at the bottom of the class:

Fuck you, now go get me my coffee

Congratulations!

Seriously, though: did people really mistreat you for this stuff? I ask, because I was expecting it. I don't imagine that people expect great shakes of me, either, with a fashion merchandising degree, but no one in my class has ever said anything remotely rude about it. I was quite surprised that people were not more dickish, since I had been warned to brace for it and to keep details like my UG to myself.

We are waiting for one more grade, so I will know soon enough whether I can compete with the former Ivy kids in my class. Yes, there are a bunch of them, even at my non T14.

I went to an Ivy, and I lol so hard when people make a comment about how that means I must be smart. I knew tons of morons at my and other ivies. Good SAT scores/ECs in high school does not an intelligent human make. And college/freedom/weed/partying saps motivations without discriminating based on the Prestige of your undergraduate institution.

mallard wrote:Congrats dooder. Considering transfer?

OperaSoprano wrote:

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Dear people who have treated me like I'm bottom of the curve material at UoC because I'm a transfer student and don't extensively brief cases/highlight my book/etc. and didn't come from an ivy league school:

I won't say anything to you personally, but allow me to express the same sentiment that I expressed to people last year who assumed that, because I went to a shitty state school and got a "useless" degree I would be at the bottom of the class:

Fuck you, now go get me my coffee

Congratulations!

Seriously, though: did people really mistreat you for this stuff? I ask, because I was expecting it. I don't imagine that people expect great shakes of me, either, with a fashion merchandising degree, but no one in my class has ever said anything remotely rude about it. I was quite surprised that people were not more dickish, since I had been warned to brace for it and to keep details like my UG to myself.

We are waiting for one more grade, so I will know soon enough. It feels like half my class went to an Ivy, or at least a T20 UG. I know I am an outlier, though I exceeded the median numerically for admission to this program. I would not ever have gotten in were it otherwise. I hope I earned this seat.

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Dear people who have treated me like I'm bottom of the curve material at UoC because I'm a transfer student and don't extensively brief cases/highlight my book/etc. and didn't come from an ivy league school:

I won't say anything to you personally, but allow me to express the same sentiment that I expressed to people last year who assumed that, because I went to a shitty state school and got a "useless" degree I would be at the bottom of the class:

Fuck you, now go get me my coffee

TTT-LS wrote:

Esc wrote:

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Dear people who have treated me like I'm bottom of the curve material at UoC because I'm a transfer student and don't extensively brief cases/highlight my book/etc. and didn't come from an ivy league school:

I won't say anything to you personally, but allow me to express the same sentiment that I expressed to people last year who assumed that, because I went to a shitty state school and got a "useless" degree I would be at the bottom of the class:

Fuck you, now go get me my coffee

Wow, the people at your institutions seem like real dicks.

It is the University of Chicago. What did you expect?

As for ToTransferOrNot, congrats!!

ToTransferOrNot wrote:

OperaSoprano wrote:

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Dear people who have treated me like I'm bottom of the curve material at UoC because I'm a transfer student and don't extensively brief cases/highlight my book/etc. and didn't come from an ivy league school:

I won't say anything to you personally, but allow me to express the same sentiment that I expressed to people last year who assumed that, because I went to a shitty state school and got a "useless" degree I would be at the bottom of the class:

Fuck you, now go get me my coffee

Congratulations!

Seriously, though: did people really mistreat you for this stuff? I ask, because I was expecting it. I don't imagine that people expect great shakes of me, either, with a fashion merchandising degree, but no one in my class has ever said anything remotely rude about it. I was quite surprised that people were not more dickish, since I had been warned to brace for it and to keep details like my UG to myself.

We are waiting for one more grade, so I will know soon enough. It feels like half my class went to an Ivy, or at least a T20 UG. I know I am an outlier, though I exceeded the median numerically for admission to this program. I would not ever have gotten in were it otherwise. I hope I earned this seat.

Was more of a problem after the transfer than it was 1L, but yeah, I got a lot of it last year, too.

Esc wrote:

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Dear people who have treated me like I'm bottom of the curve material at UoC because I'm a transfer student and don't extensively brief cases/highlight my book/etc. and didn't come from an ivy league school:

I won't say anything to you personally, but allow me to express the same sentiment that I expressed to people last year who assumed that, because I went to a shitty state school and got a "useless" degree I would be at the bottom of the class:

Fuck you, now go get me my coffee

Wow, the people at your institutions seem like real dicks.