Debate and Law School Forum

[Oracl3]

Hey everyone,

Any other debaters on this forum? No one seems to appreciate the activity but debaters and law school admissions reps.

[birdlaw117]

Hey everyone,

Any other debaters on this forum? No one seems to appreciate the activity but debaters and law school admissions reps.

Fix't

[2011Law]

Hey everyone,

Any other debaters on this forum? No one seems to appreciate the activity but debaters and law school admissions reps.[/quote]
Fix't

lol.

Some of the debate styles are just so useless to real life skills that I have no idea why they exist. Others aren't so bad. Unless you made it really far in competition, no one is really going to care.

[birdlaw117]

Hey everyone,

Any other debaters on this forum? No one seems to appreciate the activity but debaters and law school admissions reps.[/quote]
Fix't

lol.

Some of the debate styles are just so useless to real life skills that I have no idea why they exist. Others aren't so bad. Unless you went toe-to-toe with the Ragin' Cajunmade it really far in competition, no one is really going to care.

Fix't again

[Oracl3]

anyone?

[pwyoung]

I'm a debater. It really doesn't do much for admissions other than something to slap on there under "Extracurriculars".

[Rand M.]

I'm a debater. It really doesn't do much for admissions other than something to slap on there under "Extracurriculars".

This.

[Oracl3]

any other debaters want to share their takes?

[RelativeEase]

nb4 master debater

[EricBerry]

Despite what most people on here will tell you, mentioning debate actually can help your application (assuming you have national awards and what not). Two admissions deans mentioned my debate achievements in handwritten notes on my acceptance letters.

[prezidentv8]

nb4 master debater

NOOOOO I WAS GOING TO POST THIS!!!

[fatduck]

Hey everyone,

Any other debaters on this forum? No one seems to appreciate the activity but debaters and law school admissions reps.[/quote]
Fix't

lol.

Some of the debate styles are just so useless to real life skills that I have no idea why they exist. Others aren't so bad. Unless you went toe-to-toe with the Ragin' Cajunmade it really far in competition, no one is really going to care.

Fix't again

the ragin' cajun had lunch with my debate team. we had pizza and soda, but he brought his own sandwich. the only ingredient appeared to be mayonnaise. he ate it vigorously while telling us that he was certain bloomberg was going to run for president in 2008.

[nealric]

Despite what most people on here will tell you, mentioning debate actually can help your application (assuming you have national awards and what not). Two admissions deans mentioned my debate achievements in handwritten notes on my acceptance letters.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but the way those things work is that they pick something from your resume/PS and put on the acceptance letter that they were "impressed". It's there to make you feel special and want to attend their school. It's not a commentary on their admissions process.

[EricBerry]

Despite what most people on here will tell you, mentioning debate actually can help your application (assuming you have national awards and what not). Two admissions deans mentioned my debate achievements in handwritten notes on my acceptance letters.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but the way those things work is that they pick something from your resume/PS and put on the acceptance letter that they were "impressed". It's there to make you feel special and want to attend their school. It's not a commentary on their admissions process.

One of the schools I was talking about was a reach for me. LSP <25% chance, median LSAT, 0.4 below 25th GPA. Doesn't it seem like something other than numbers was at play in their decision, given my sub-par numbers for that school? Don't you think that the soft they picked from my resume to include in the handwritten note would probably be one of my best softs (the vast majority of applicants didn't get a note BTW)? I'm not saying that my debate experience alone was the reason for my acceptance, but it clearly caught the dean's eye.

[fatduck]

where did you debate/what type?

[EricBerry]

where did you debate/what type?

policy, national circuit and southeast region

[fatduck]

where did you debate/what type?

policy, national circuit and southeast region

nice i debated policy for army but obviously nowhere near that level. emory?

[FiveSermon]

I debate on the webz

[gwuorbust]

seriously, all law schools care about is making money. does debate help that? no. but your number do. take from that what you will.

[glitched]

mmmm i don't know. have you guys ever just met with a mass amount of people and just started debating? I mean it honestly feels pretty good to mass debate. Anyone else mass debating out there? I sometimes wonder if I should have told admissions officers about my mass debating efforts. I go pretty hard sometimes and well honestly it feels good to be at the climax of an event and just out all I got. Sometimes even just watching others mass debate was enough for me.

[birdlaw117]

mmmm i don't know. have you guys ever just met with a mass amount of people and just started debating? I mean it honestly feels pretty good to mass debate. Anyone else mass debating out there? I sometimes wonder if I should have told admissions officers about my mass debating efforts. I go pretty hard sometimes and well honestly it feels good to be at the climax of an event and just out all I got. Sometimes even just watching others mass debate was enough for me.

Wow. That post is full of so much win. I applaud you and your apparently epic mass debating sessions.

[tea_drinker]

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[smittytron3k]

to be fair, debate matters weirdly more at some schools (harvard and chicago in particular), and most adcoms know what the NDT is, but generally it's just another extracurricular. getting to triples of CEDA or whatever isn't going to mean a lot to them.

[TatteredDignity]

I debated policy 4 years in high school. It was a lot of fun, and it taught me how to think critically and analyze arguments. I hoped to parlay all of this into attending a top-notch law school.

So I studied really hard for the LSAT and rocked it.

[robotclubmember]

I debated policy 4 years in high school. It was a lot of fun, and it taught me how to think critically and analyze arguments. I hoped to parlay all of this into attending a top-notch law school.

So I studied really hard for the LSAT and rocked it.

Moral of the story: Fuck debate, study for the LSAT in the library. Alone. Because that actually will make a difference in your life.