Taking Legal Writing during Undergrad Forum

[pugilistjd]

If someone has already posted on this topic, please direct me to the right place. I ended up getting a B in an undergraduate legal writing course. It was taught by a Georgetown JD who self-admittedly almost flunked out of law school and failed the bar twice. He was bumbling, disorganized, and capricious.

Bottom line: Do admissions officers really care about undergrad grades in law-related courses? I'd hope they'd question their quality and consider the more rigorous courses I took within my major (philosophy). Or, maybe, they'll just focus on my GPA and not any particular courses.

[YankeesFan]

they'll just focus on my GPA and not any particular courses

This is exactly what will happen.

[CanadianWolf]

Applying to Georgetown ?

[pugilistjd]

Applying to Georgetown ?

HAH!
Even if I get the requisite LSAT score for Georgetown, I'd rather go to a non-T14 school and have to work harder to find a job than go to Georgetown, get a job then watch GW grads run circles around me. But I only know of Gtown's degree mill rep. I would gladly be corrected by any current law students/alumni. My prof graduated in '72 and said no matter how many classes he failed, they would not flunk him out. Maybe, things have changed.

[IAFG]

Applying to Georgetown ?

HAH!
Even if I get the requisite LSAT score for Georgetown, I'd rather go to a non-T14 school and have to work harder to find a job than go to Georgetown, get a job then watch GW grads run circles around me. But I only know of Gtown's degree mill rep. I would gladly be corrected by any current law students/alumni. My prof graduated in '72 and said no matter how many classes he failed, they would not flunk him out. Maybe, things have changed.

if you want to go to schools where people get flunked out, you're gonna need to go to T3/T4 in California.

[ahduth]

Applying to Georgetown ?

HAH!
Even if I get the requisite LSAT score for Georgetown, I'd rather go to a non-T14 school and have to work harder to find a job than go to Georgetown, get a job then watch GW grads run circles around me. But I only know of Gtown's degree mill rep. I would gladly be corrected by any current law students/alumni. My prof graduated in '72 and said no matter how many classes he failed, they would not flunk him out. Maybe, things have changed.

That guy got pretty punchy, pretty fast. I like it, this could be going somewhere.