Law School reservations due to poor grade in BLaw
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 2:50 am
Hello yall, new to the forum, I am currently a rising junior
I have recently become determined to go to law school and learn law, but I am a bit worried about my grade I got in my Business Law class (B-). First off, how will this affect admissions, given that my GPA is decent for law school admissions?
Second, is this a pretty fair indicator of how well I will do in learning in law school?
Not to make excuses but here were the conditions while taking the BLaw class: I was distracted with recruiting and interviewing with companies, so I spent less time than I should have studying. I missed 50% of the lectures. To make up for it, I would try to read the book and the cases using LexisNexis to understand it. I went into office hours a few times but am still unsure of why I did so poorly on the tests even though i felt like i understood the reading and the reasoning behind the cases.
My other friends in the class did well simply by going to class and paying attention to lecture. Another possibility why I didn't grasp it was that the book had specific qualifiers for certain terms, yet the test problems were fairly general. My professor said I had siked myself out of the right answer half the time, but I still question if I really understood the problems or if I was thinking too hard for her non specific case questions
I am open to productive criticism
Thank you
I have recently become determined to go to law school and learn law, but I am a bit worried about my grade I got in my Business Law class (B-). First off, how will this affect admissions, given that my GPA is decent for law school admissions?
Second, is this a pretty fair indicator of how well I will do in learning in law school?
Not to make excuses but here were the conditions while taking the BLaw class: I was distracted with recruiting and interviewing with companies, so I spent less time than I should have studying. I missed 50% of the lectures. To make up for it, I would try to read the book and the cases using LexisNexis to understand it. I went into office hours a few times but am still unsure of why I did so poorly on the tests even though i felt like i understood the reading and the reasoning behind the cases.
My other friends in the class did well simply by going to class and paying attention to lecture. Another possibility why I didn't grasp it was that the book had specific qualifiers for certain terms, yet the test problems were fairly general. My professor said I had siked myself out of the right answer half the time, but I still question if I really understood the problems or if I was thinking too hard for her non specific case questions
I am open to productive criticism
Thank you
