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the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:58 am
by dosiag
Does being a URM REALLY make a difference. What kind of boost does one really get on lsat/gpa?

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:59 am
by Grizz
dosiag wrote:Does being a URM REALLY make a difference.
Yes. Have you seen the URM forum or LSN yet?

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:42 am
by dosiag
No. Where is that? I'll check it out.

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:51 am
by kalvano
http://top-law-schools.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=14

They cleverly disguised it with the misleading title "Under Represented Law Student Forum".

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:52 am
by Stanford4Me
:lol:

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:06 pm
by username99
It makes a staggering difference. Look at the lawschoolnumbers graphs. All the outliers are urms.

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:03 pm
by abarrios
Does it still help if you don't write a DS?

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:05 pm
by kalvano
abarrios wrote:Does it still help if you don't write a DS?

Does the color of your skin / your ethnicity change if you don't write a DS?

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:06 pm
by bk1
kalvano wrote:
abarrios wrote:Does it still help if you don't write a DS?

Does the color of your skin / your ethnicity change if you don't write a DS?
It might.

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:06 pm
by abarrios
kalvano wrote:
abarrios wrote:Does it still help if you don't write a DS?

Does the color of your skin / your ethnicity change if you don't write a DS?
Haha good point. Just wondering.

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:09 pm
by kalvano
bk187 wrote:
kalvano wrote:
abarrios wrote:Does it still help if you don't write a DS?

Does the color of your skin / your ethnicity change if you don't write a DS?
It might.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:23 pm
by bk1
kalvano wrote:The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you.

Re: the real effect of being a urm

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:23 pm
by Grizz
bk187 wrote:
kalvano wrote:The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you.
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NERDS!