"Florida Law School Applications Tanking" Forum

[wat]

All Florida law schools are seeing declines in applications, except... FAMU!

"The only Florida law school to buck the trend was Florida A&M University School of Law, where applications were up 16 percent."

'"If any law school dean told you he or she wasn't concerned, you shouldn't believe it," said George Dawson, dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law. "We had a significant problem this past year ... with applications down 20 percent."'

http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/id=1 ... ns-Tanking

[AT9]

UF shouldn't be surprised when 1) they're one of few among their peers that doesn't offer fee waivers and 2) they're known for being somewhat stingy with $ (though they were about on par for FSU for me at least.

[wat]

UF shouldn't be surprised when 1) they're one of few among their peers that doesn't offer fee waivers and 2) they're known for being somewhat stingy with $ (though they were about on par for FSU for me at least.

That may be true, but the article discusses applications -- not enrollments.

[deadpanic]

UF shouldn't be surprised when 1) they're one of few among their peers that doesn't offer fee waivers and 2) they're known for being somewhat stingy with $ (though they were about on par for FSU for me at least.

That may be true, but the article discusses applications -- not enrollments.

Do you not think what he pointed out has an affect on applications?

[RCSOB657]

Related, Barry just sent me a pre-application scholy consideration letter. Unfortunately for Barry, 14k off sticker is about half of what I would require to even consider going to FL.

[Young Marino]

Love to see the market correcting itself. Who needs Keynesian economics?

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[timbs4339]

Love to see the market correcting itself. Who needs Keynesian economics?

I'm sure all the scammed students and soon to be scammed students walk around with their heads up high knowing that they were an integral part of a market correction.

[notgreat]

Love to see the market correcting itself. Who needs Keynesian economics?

I don't think you understood Keynes. See Timbs' post.

[cron1834]

How is it that Florida is filled with such TTTs? Every other state of that size has a legit school.

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[cron1834]

How is it that Florida is filled with such TTTs? Every other state of that size has a legit school.

Doesn't have the legal market of any state of that size, at least for biglaw. There are like 20 SA's total between Tampa and Orlando, and maybe 20-30ish more in Miami/South Florida, but that is about it.

Fair, but they should at least have a WUSTL. One of those TTTs should be able to outcompete the others. Instead... is there even a single school with a 160 median?

[Young Marino]

How is it that Florida is filled with such TTTs? Every other state of that size has a legit school.

Doesn't have the legal market of any state of that size, at least for biglaw. There are like 20 SA's total between Tampa and Orlando, and maybe 20-30ish more in Miami/South Florida, but that is about it.

Fair, but they should at least have a WUSTL. One of those TTTs should be able to outcompete the others. Instead... is there even a single school with a 160 median?

Florida State probably comes the closest to a 160 median.... Pecking order in this state for state schools only goes FSU/UF>> Miami and the TTTs/TTTTs that do just as well as Miami in job placement (Stetson, FIU, Nova.... Source: Many local attorneys/LST employment score)>>>>> The rest of the TTTTs- St. Thomas, Ave Maria, FL Coastal, Barry, FAMU... It's really the bottom tier schools that are really in trouble. FSU/UF do well throughout the state while the next group of Miami, Nova, FIU and Stetson do well in their regions (Miami for FIU/U of Miami, Broward/Palm Beach for Nova, Tampa for Stetson)..

[Cicero76]

I struck out in central Florida coming from Yale. I have a hard time understanding why someone would want to go to any law school in Florida.

[Young Marino]

I struck out in central Florida coming from Yale. I have a hard time understanding why someone would want to go to any law school in Florida.

Were you biglaw or bust? There's not many biglaw firms here. You'll see alot of midlaw stuff working in civil areas like family and personal injury but there's not a lot of opportunity here for corporate work.

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[Cicero76]

Were you biglaw or bust? There's not many biglaw firms here. You'll see alot of midlaw stuff working in civil areas like family and personal injury but there's not a lot of opportunity here for corporate work.

Lol. I guess I forgot to send in my app to Morgan and Morgan

[FKASunny]

Were you biglaw or bust? There's not many biglaw firms here. You'll see alot of midlaw stuff working in civil areas like family and personal injury but there's not a lot of opportunity here for corporate work.

Lol. I guess I forgot to send in my app to Morgan and Morgan

I can't tell you how many of my family members asked me why I didn't apply there.

[wat]

How is it that Florida is filled with such TTTs? Every other state of that size has a legit school.

It takes many years for a school to move into the upper tier. FSU and UF both claim to have been founded in the 1850s, but the reality is that UF wasn't really a university until around 1920 and FSU was a "girl's school" until around 1950. Many of the top tier schools in other states have been around for centuries, or are located in areas that have been heavily-popuated and industrialized for much longer than Florida.

Prior to 1950, Florida's population was 1/10 of what it is now and its economy was almost entirely tourism and agriculture -- not exactly fields that demand highly educated employees. Most of the other "big states" have been "big" and industrialized for much longer than Florida, and their flagship universities have benefited from this.

[FKASunny]

How is it that Florida is filled with such TTTs? Every other state of that size has a legit school.

It takes many years for a school to move into the upper tier. FSU and UF both claim to have been founded in the 1850s, but the reality is that UF wasn't really a university until around 1920 and FSU was a "girl's school" until around 1950. Many of the top tier schools in other states have been around for centuries, or are located in areas that have been heavily-popuated and industrialized for much longer than Florida.

Prior to 1950, Florida's population was 1/10 of what it is now and its economy was almost entirely tourism and agriculture -- not exactly fields that demand highly educated employees. Most of the other "big states" have been "big" and industrialized for much longer than Florida, and their flagship universities have benefited from this.

Counterpoint: All the U California law schools, U Alabama, U Georgia, U Texas etc.

[cron1834]

How is it that Florida is filled with such TTTs? Every other state of that size has a legit school.

It takes many years for a school to move into the upper tier. FSU and UF both claim to have been founded in the 1850s, but the reality is that UF wasn't really a university until around 1920 and FSU was a "girl's school" until around 1950. Many of the top tier schools in other states have been around for centuries, or are located in areas that have been heavily-popuated and industrialized for much longer than Florida.

Prior to 1950, Florida's population was 1/10 of what it is now and its economy was almost entirely tourism and agriculture -- not exactly fields that demand highly educated employees. Most of the other "big states" have been "big" and industrialized for much longer than Florida, and their flagship universities have benefited from this.

Counterpoint: All the U California law schools, U Alabama, U Georgia, U Texas etc.

Yeah. I'm not asking for a T14 here, just a lousy 160 median.

[Pumpkin-Duke of Pie]

All Florida law schools are seeing declines in applications, except... FAMU!

"The only Florida law school to buck the trend was Florida A&M University School of Law, where applications were up 16 percent."

'"If any law school dean told you he or she wasn't concerned, you shouldn't believe it," said George Dawson, dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law. "We had a significant problem this past year ... with applications down 20 percent."'

http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/id=1 ... ns-Tanking

This is just fucking embarrassing. I'm so ashamed of HBCUs right now (looking at you too, Howard. The Black Harvard my ass...).

[wat]

How is it that Florida is filled with such TTTs? Every other state of that size has a legit school.

It takes many years for a school to move into the upper tier. FSU and UF both claim to have been founded in the 1850s, but the reality is that UF wasn't really a university until around 1920 and FSU was a "girl's school" until around 1950. Many of the top tier schools in other states have been around for centuries, or are located in areas that have been heavily-popuated and industrialized for much longer than Florida.

Prior to 1950, Florida's population was 1/10 of what it is now and its economy was almost entirely tourism and agriculture -- not exactly fields that demand highly educated employees. Most of the other "big states" have been "big" and industrialized for much longer than Florida, and their flagship universities have benefited from this.

Counterpoint: All the U California law schools, U Alabama, U Georgia, U Texas etc.

All of those states had much larger populations than Florida until very recently. Two of them still do.

[wat]

All Florida law schools are seeing declines in applications, except... FAMU!

"The only Florida law school to buck the trend was Florida A&M University School of Law, where applications were up 16 percent."

'"If any law school dean told you he or she wasn't concerned, you shouldn't believe it," said George Dawson, dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law. "We had a significant problem this past year ... with applications down 20 percent."'

http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/id=1 ... ns-Tanking

This is just fucking embarrassing. I'm so ashamed of HBCUs right now (looking at you too, Howard. The Black Harvard my ass...).

Why are you ashamed? FAMU is apparently the one school where applications are actually increasing.