Looks like a great semester to me. Way to go!

I adore LEEWS. I did it first semester and credit it for any exam success. When I told friends who asked what I did to study, they looked at me incredulously. To anyone who hasn't done it, I highly recommend it. I'm proof that with LEEWS you don't have to be that intelligent (I was right above the bottom quartile for my school's LSAT score) to do well in class.

My grades are back

I had an almost perfectly mediocre semester. Based on historic averages I'll wind up in the "Top 25%" or "Top 30%" brackets.

There goes transferring and OCI...

Top 10% is still a great achievement. Top 10% + Law Review will pull you through come OCI time.

My approach:

1. Memorize the mess out of the relevant law
2. Take shit tons of practice exams
3. Win

Mine's about the same. Mostly study the law by making the outline. Then learn the law by taking a shit ton of practice exams. Profit.

This worked great for my essay exams. My essays were As and a B+...multiple choice were my two Bs.

Agree completely. Our Civ Pro prof, while a hilarious guy, had this knack for just renaming and slightly tweaking Glannon Guide questions. It was always fun to look at your multiple choice and feel comfort in familiarity.

Fuck fuck fuck. Got a B- in legreg, B+ in Contracts.

yep...not even sending out some apps anymore. not worth throwing away a couple hundred bucks to get rejected.

I'm poor so all of my application fees are waived. I'll probably send out a hand full of applications to transfer friendly schools. But with these grades I'm not expecting any acceptances.

Edit: I had my personal statement and resume ready to go. So it's not like I'm putting much additional effort into the process.

Went from a pathetic 2.52 first semester to a 3.45 this semester. Now basically back to median (which is 3.0 at my school), which is pretty remarkable considering that first semester. Very glad I ignored advice to drop out.

My approach:
- No notes during class this semester. Just sit and listen and absorb.
- No making my own outline. Just memorized old ones
- LEARN how to take exams, not just take practice exams where I do the same wrong stuff every time. For me, this was cutting out the paragraphs of background info I gave on exams in 1st semester and modifying IRAC to CRAC, which 2 of my professors told me was much better.

Wow. Just goes to show everyone learns differently. If I did those first 2 things I guarantee I'd know basically nothing come test day.

Never know if you don't try. Waiting on tax to make or break me.

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It's funny how that goes, right? For me, I couldn't have done any worse 1st semester and I was doing traditional things like making my own outlines, taking copious notes, and I even briefed all the way through Thanksgiving. But I didn't GET what was going on, as in how I was going to be graded. So I decided to make wholesale changes and stay focused on "how am I going to organize this chapter on an exam?"

I don't think 25% is a complete fail, but I heard there were cutoffs last year around 10-15% for most of the large firms. If your background is engineering/hard science and you're into intellectual property, you'll probably still be okay.

Weird, I'm you're numbers clone, except my uGPA is horrible.

just found out today the deputy gets a printout every morning of every single website every single courthouse employee visited the previous day. i hope he enjoys the million times i checked my school's grades site the past 2 weeks.

Lol'd

^this. On the plus side ran the numbers last night and I'll have a 3.5 even if I failed. But I'd rather not fail.

This is worse than status checkers. At least those gave you updates. "file under review"

Lool the extern next to me has been google stalking her ex all day. I imagine though that this building is way too big to have that kind of procedure. I'm on my phone just in case.

haha, if by fail you mean a D or F, i can tell you with confidence you did not fail.

Don't say that, people definitely DO get D's and F's. At least at my school............Some have misconceived notions that "nobody" gets below a C+. Not true

i don't mean to imply that at all.

i just mean to imply she wouldn't fall into that category.