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To those of you in law school: How important is the law building itself? Does a sub par building affect you in any way or should the law building be the least of my worries?

jayhawk23ball wrote:To those of you in law school: How important is the law building itself? Does a sub par building affect you in any way or should the law building be the least of my worries?

Not as important as employment statistics or geography. More important than the number of books in the library.

After you've been reading your face off for the first month you forget/don't care what the building looks like. True story.

Focus on the school's stats.

It shouldn't be something you pay for, but if you're looking at equal cost it can be a factor. I like our building a lot. One of the other schools I visited had more a more depressing or old interior in need of renovation. You spend a lot of time at the law school even if you study at home a lot, so I think it matters.

Oh yeah and if this is a concern, don't go to Minnesota:

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 9&start=50

This is my issue... I have one offer that is about 25k cheaper than the other. They both have similar employment stats. I loved the building of the one that was more expensive. The people and the overall vibes I got were great compared to the less expensive one. I could see myself excelling in the more expensive building and not doing as well due to extreme differences in building and staff quality.

jayhawk23ball wrote:This is my issue... I have one offer that is about 25k cheaper than the other. They both have similar employment stats. I loved the building of the one that was more expensive. The people and the overall vibes I got were great compared to the less expensive one. I could see myself excelling in the more expensive building and not doing as well due to extreme differences in building quality.

I Loled

My school is kind of on the ugly side, doesn't matter. Having a building that is like a maze and that has weird numbering systems can be kind of annoying but I'm not going to say that's what got me median-pwned in Con Law

jayhawk23ball wrote:This is my issue... I have one offer that is about 25k cheaper than the other. They both have similar employment stats. I loved the building of the one that was more expensive. The people and the overall vibes I got were great compared to the less expensive one. I could see myself excelling in the more expensive building and not doing as well due to extreme differences in building and staff quality.

It sounds like you are more in tune with the people than the actual building. Go where you feel more @ home and comfortable if the two are equal in stats. 25k is not like a gigantic deal in diff, depending on stats of course. Don't let the tie breaker be about the building tho. Let it be about the community as a whole and the culture of the school of which the building is a detail.

suzige wrote:

jayhawk23ball wrote:This is my issue... I have one offer that is about 25k cheaper than the other. They both have similar employment stats. I loved the building of the one that was more expensive. The people and the overall vibes I got were great compared to the less expensive one. I could see myself excelling in the more expensive building and not doing as well due to extreme differences in building and staff quality.

It sounds like you are more in tune with the people than the actual building. Go where you feel more @ home and comfortable if the two are equal in stats. 25k is not like a gigantic deal in diff, depending on stats of course. Don't let the tie breaker be about the building tho. Let it be about the community as a whole and the culture of the school of which the building is a detail.

If I'm right about which schools he/she is talking about, 25K is a hell of a difference

Also think about chalkboards versus whiteboards. If I had known that HLS was going to put chalkboards in their new, several hundred million dollar building I definitely would've picked another school instead.

ph14 wrote:Also think about chalkboards versus whiteboards. If I had known that HLS was going to put chalkboards in their new, several hundred million dollar building I definitely would've picked another school instead.

Stay after class to clean the erasers to build a good relationship with the professor.

Gooner91 wrote:

ph14 wrote:Also think about chalkboards versus whiteboards. If I had known that HLS was going to put chalkboards in their new, several hundred million dollar building I definitely would've picked another school instead.

Stay after class to clean the erasers to build a good relationship with the professor.

It's someone's job here to clean the board and erasers.

If your building is shit firms won't come to your school's OCI and no one will get jobs. So you should care.

Also, your intellectual ability will suffer. Have you ever had to ponder where to draw the line in a sub-par building? You'll never figure out where it goes.

Please post the schools so everyone can tell you not to go please

This HAS to be about USC's shitty building. Honestly, it sucks. I can't say how it's affected me, cause I have only been a 1L here. Would hate 1L slightly less if I had a nicer building to fall asleep in-front of my books in? Maybe. But all-in-all USC has a beautiful campus with some of the nicest buildings.

ph14 wrote:

Gooner91 wrote:

ph14 wrote:Also think about chalkboards versus whiteboards. If I had known that HLS was going to put chalkboards in their new, several hundred million dollar building I definitely would've picked another school instead.

Stay after class to clean the erasers to build a good relationship with the professor.

It's someone's job here to clean the board and erasers.

Is that JD required?

Gooner91 wrote:

ph14 wrote:

Gooner91 wrote:

ph14 wrote:Also think about chalkboards versus whiteboards. If I had known that HLS was going to put chalkboards in their new, several hundred million dollar building I definitely would've picked another school instead.

Stay after class to clean the erasers to build a good relationship with the professor.

It's someone's job here to clean the board and erasers.

Is that JD required?

Yes but only from a T14.

I would have attended classes at the city dump if it had ensured me a COA clerkship.

Biglaw_Associate_V20 wrote:I would have attended classes at the city dump if it had ensured me a COA clerkship.

Sure, but what about New Haven?