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Are there any law schools that I shouldn't bother applying to?

cvnrssm wrote:Are there any law schools that I shouldn't bother applying to?

Out at Berkeley. They're notorious for requiring a high GPA.

enjoy going anywhere you please

Yes. Cooley.

If I were you, I would not bother even applying anywhere. Also, I hear if you had happened to graduate in December but am planning to basically sit around your undergraduate town hanging out with your squirrel/girlfriend that schools look very negatiely at that. Take it for what it's worth...

you won't get into yale.

Kohinoor wrote:

cvnrssm wrote:Are there any law schools that I shouldn't bother applying to?

Out at Berkeley. They're notorious for requiring a high GPA.

OP is URM.

boilercat wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:

cvnrssm wrote:Are there any law schools that I shouldn't bother applying to?

Out at Berkeley. They're notorious for requiring a high GPA.

OP is URM.

see proposition 209

talibkweli wrote:

boilercat wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:

cvnrssm wrote:Are there any law schools that I shouldn't bother applying to?

Out at Berkeley. They're notorious for requiring a high GPA.

OP is URM.

see proposition 209

Won't matter. If the OP's personal statement is connected in a meaningful way to his or her URM status, then Berkeley will accept in a heartbeat.

Michigan banned affirmative action, but you wouldn't know it from looking at their LSN graph.

Trifles wrote:Michigan banned affirmative action, but you wouldn't know it from looking at their LSN graph.

yes they did, now they have something called "holistic review." berkeley has that too...and ucla.....so your probably in everywhere, excluding yale and stanford.

Nowhere. You're not guaranteed at Yale, but you're definitely favored. Berkeley is an interesting case, but they really do practice affirmative action though it's technically banned. Your numbers are good enough for Michigan even without the URM, and of course they also practice affirmative action despite it being banned. (In both cases, they just call it "holistic judgement", which just a euphemism.)

For the record, Law School Predictor, which has a reputation for understating URMs, puts you at "Consider" for Yale and "Admit" everywhere else.

FuturehoyaLawya wrote:

Trifles wrote:Michigan banned affirmative action, but you wouldn't know it from looking at their LSN graph.

yes they did, now they have something called "holistic review." berkeley has that too...and ucla.....so your probably in everywhere, excluding yale and stanford.

titcr. He might have a decent shot at Stanford too.

BenJ wrote:Nowhere. You're not guaranteed at Yale, but you're definitely favored. Berkeley is an interesting case, but they really do practice affirmative action though it's technically banned. Your numbers are good enough for Michigan even without the URM, and of course they also practice affirmative action despite it being banned. (In both cases, they just call it "holistic judgement", which just a euphemism.)

For the record, Law School Predictor, which has a reputation for understating URMs, puts you at "Consider" for Yale and "Admit" everywhere else.

Fie on you sir. Berkeley and it's quasi-peer school Michigan haven't practiced affirmative action in years. It's time for people to wake up and realize that essay writing matters and is a valid metric in the law school admissions process.

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Is it just me or is a burning book a bad symbol for a school?

Depends what kind of URM you are.

Affirmative action was considered unconstitutional in Michigan's undergraduate admissions process, but it's still allowed in law school admissions. That's why you see such things in its LSN graph.

tomhobbes wrote:

jayzon wrote:--ImageRemoved--

Is it just me or is a burning book a bad symbol for a school?

that it is liberty's of all places makes this just hilarious

EzraStiles wrote:Affirmative action was considered unconstitutional in Michigan's undergraduate admissions process, but it's still allowed in law school admissions. That's why you see such things in its LSN graph.

you are wrong

Yale supposed has a firm 3.5 cutoff, URM or not. Save YLS, you'll be in everywhere.

http://umich.edu/news/index.html?Releas ... remecourt2

notably the phrase "In two lawsuits challenging University of Michigan admissions policies, the court ruled 5-4 in favor of the Law School"

Maybe not affirmative action in all it encompasses, but the law school was not forced to change its previous method of evaluation.

im confused, i thought SC ruling was all about AA being okay again (note, not yet in law school lol)

EzraStiles wrote:http://umich.edu/news/index.html?Releas ... remecourt2

notably the phrase "In two lawsuits challenging University of Michigan admissions policies, the court ruled 5-4 in favor of the Law School"

Maybe not affirmative action in all it encompasses, but the law school was not forced to change its previous method of evaluation.

is justice rehnquist still the chief justice?

which came first: the gratz/grutter cases, or michigan's ballot initiative?

EzraStiles wrote:Affirmative action was considered unconstitutional in Michigan's undergraduate admissions process, but it's still allowed in law school admissions. That's why you see such things in its LSN graph.

No, the point system was thrown out but they can still weigh race in the admissions process.

talibkweli wrote:

EzraStiles wrote:http://umich.edu/news/index.html?Releas ... remecourt2

notably the phrase "In two lawsuits challenging University of Michigan admissions policies, the court ruled 5-4 in favor of the Law School"

Maybe not affirmative action in all it encompasses, but the law school was not forced to change its previous method of evaluation.

is justice rehnquist still the chief justice?

which came first: the gratz/grutter cases, or michigan's ballot initiative?

Pretty sure the ballot initiative came after and negated gratz/grutter.