My Failing Out Of Law School Experience
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:48 pm
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I appreciated it from the perspective that I got to see where we were similar. I think this thread is a good one.cavalier1138 wrote:Ok, this was kind of cute as a warning thread to 0Ls, but maybe stop trying to offer actual advice to students.
I mean, it's good in the sense that the OP doesn't have a crushing amount of debt and has figured out that the law isn't for them. It's good as a warning to 0Ls that you should only go to law school if you want to be a lawyer.muscleboundlaw wrote:I appreciated it from the perspective that I got to see where we were similar. I think this thread is a good one.cavalier1138 wrote:Ok, this was kind of cute as a warning thread to 0Ls, but maybe stop trying to offer actual advice to students.
That wasn't really an advice for studying question. I just wanted to know if we were on a similar path. I am just a somewhat nervous 1L. He gave me some clarity in terms of knowing that I am not doing things in a way that would lead me to failure.cavalier1138 wrote:I mean, it's good in the sense that the OP doesn't have a crushing amount of debt and has figured out that the law isn't for them. It's good as a warning to 0Ls that you should only go to law school if you want to be a lawyer.muscleboundlaw wrote:I appreciated it from the perspective that I got to see where we were similar. I think this thread is a good one.cavalier1138 wrote:Ok, this was kind of cute as a warning thread to 0Ls, but maybe stop trying to offer actual advice to students.
But you're seriously seeking advice from someone who flunked out? The OP knows as much about how to get decent grades in law school as I know about how to win a gold medal in bobsledding (I've seen "Cool Runnings").
I have made the conclusions that schools, who carry the "we will give you X amount so long as you stay in the top Y percentage of the class", are hedging their bets on most falling below the curve and then receiving full tuition in the end. It's a good strategy. That's why you only go to the school with guaranteed money if your history doesn't show an above average performance tract.Gunner19 wrote:The biggest shock to me here is that there are law schools out there that would give a $30K/year scholly to someone with a 155 lsat and 2.7 gpa. Yikes.
I was slightly more shocked that the OP still referred to the school as "a good Philadelphia law school."Gunner19 wrote:The biggest shock to me here is that there are law schools out there that would give a $30K/year scholly to someone with a 155 lsat and 2.7 gpa. Yikes.
I don't believe it.jasperjones wrote:Believe it or not, it is. And it didn't give me 30k right out the gate. I narrowed my schools down to two selections and told school X that school Y was offering me 15k, which was more than X was offering me, and provided X documentation demonstrating as much and asked if X could increase. They did. Then provided Y with documentation demonstrating that X increased and asked Y if they could increase their scholarship offer, which they did. Ultimately X increased to 30k. Not sure if other students are leveraging their schools' offers against each other but it was a great way for me to maximize my scholarship offer.cavalier1138 wrote:I was slightly more shocked that the OP still referred to the school as "a good Philadelphia law school."Gunner19 wrote:The biggest shock to me here is that there are law schools out there that would give a $30K/year scholly to someone with a 155 lsat and 2.7 gpa. Yikes.
Got a chuckle there as well. Figured Temple was far worse off than I thought because we know damn well OP wasn't talking Upenn...cavalier1138 wrote:I was slightly more shocked that the OP still referred to the school as "a good Philadelphia law school."Gunner19 wrote:The biggest shock to me here is that there are law schools out there that would give a $30K/year scholly to someone with a 155 lsat and 2.7 gpa. Yikes.
Lol, nice redaction...after a simple google search we now all know you're talking about Drexel, which, in the rankings that 99% of people pay attention to, is a TTT. You just proved our point.jasperjones wrote:To not believe it is your prerogative, and based on the admissions statistics I was surprised to get accepted to the school I went to; I was toward the low end of the GPA-LSAT scores of accepted students. But to say that "no school in Philly with good employment outcomes is taking students with your numbers, let alone with scholarships," not only isn't fair if you don't know the school I'm talking about, but it's simply not true. "The National Law Journal has ranked [redacted] #30 on its list of Top 50 Law Schools, based on employment outcomes for the Class of 2016."cavalier1138 wrote:I don't believe it.jasperjones wrote:Believe it or not, it is. And it didn't give me 30k right out the gate. I narrowed my schools down to two selections and told school X that school Y was offering me 15k, which was more than X was offering me, and provided X documentation demonstrating as much and asked if X could increase. They did. Then provided Y with documentation demonstrating that X increased and asked Y if they could increase their scholarship offer, which they did. Ultimately X increased to 30k. Not sure if other students are leveraging their schools' offers against each other but it was a great way for me to maximize my scholarship offer.cavalier1138 wrote:I was slightly more shocked that the OP still referred to the school as "a good Philadelphia law school."Gunner19 wrote:The biggest shock to me here is that there are law schools out there that would give a $30K/year scholly to someone with a 155 lsat and 2.7 gpa. Yikes.
I mainly don't believe it because you can only be talking about one or two schools in the area, and no school in Philly with good employment outcomes is taking students with your numbers, let alone with scholarships. Odds are that if you'd stayed, you probably would have had an excellent chance of still not having a job as a practicing lawyer.