Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:49 pm
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Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:51 pm
What school?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:51 pm
Where? When? Why?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:52 pm
rad lulz wrote:Where? When? Why?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:52 pm
How bad were your grades?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:53 pm
Why?!
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:54 pm
Why did your publicist think an AMA was a good idea?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:54 pm
Did you fail out or just realize that law school wasn't right for you?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:55 pm
Not giving specific school.rad lulz wrote:Where? When? Why?
After 1L grades were released.
Because my 1L grades were atrocious and I hated law school.
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:56 pm
.1 below median after first semester, even lower after second semester.Bildungsroman wrote:How bad were your grades?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:56 pm
Why did you hate law school?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:00 pm
So a 176.9? That doesn't seem drop-out worthy...T14dropout wrote:.1 below median after first semester, even lower after second semester.Bildungsroman wrote:How bad were your grades?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:00 pm
No interest in the material, having to read many hours of said material every night, the cold calls, the general douchiness of the student body, the non-stopping cramming at the end of semesters (and then forgetting 90% of it right after the exam), the crushing stress over knowing that I had to make median or near it to get that coveted biglaw joblaxbrah420 wrote:Why did you hate law school?
And the fact that I sucked at it probably contributed as well
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:03 pm
Well you managed to cross Chicago off the list of schools that I may have attendedBildungsroman wrote:So a 176.9? That doesn't seem drop-out worthy...T14dropout wrote:.1 below median after first semester, even lower after second semester.Bildungsroman wrote:How bad were your grades?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:03 pm
How much debt did you take on after 1 year?
What are you doing now?
What are you doing now?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:03 pm
Did you have a solid job lined up?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:05 pm
Well maybe all the doom and gloom being pushed on scamblogs and on TLS is convincing the wrong people to drop out.
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:06 pm
What is the supreme court going to rule about the ACA?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:06 pm
About 50k.ajaxconstructions wrote:How much debt did you take on after 1 year?
What are you doing now?
Still undecided, lining up my options. I had a decent UG major I could try to get a job off, or maybe go in a totally new direction. The freedom from the law school grind is definitely amazing though.
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:06 pm
Of course not hahaBroseidon wrote:Did you have a solid job lined up?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:07 pm
I was at the bottom of my class. Probably not a great idea to stay on.SchopenhauerFTW wrote:Well maybe all the doom and gloom being pushed on scamblogs and on TLS is convincing the wrong people to drop out.
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:07 pm
I don't know, and now I have 0 reason to careben4847 wrote:What is the supreme court going to rule about the ACA?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:08 pm
Do you think you derived any benefit from attending law school?
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:16 pm
It was quite humbling. I thought I could just waltz in there and finish at least median. But there are people there who are as smart as you who will work a lot harder than you, if you let them.Broseidon wrote:Do you think you derived any benefit from attending law school?
Pure talent/intelligence can only take you so far in LS, I'd say most of it is just the dedication to a goal and going about achieving it.
So I guess I did learn that the hard way.
Re: Dropped out of a T14 law school, ask me anything
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:17 pm
If you do not want to disclose your school, can you narrow it down to a T-14 cell. Even with less than stout grades it isn’t all that impossible to land somewhere pretty decent, especially in the upper 14. You must have a A-, B+ here and there, right?