WUSTL Recent Grad (and others) Taking Questions Forum

[stolli]

I am interested in whether to buy books or not and any protips for any of these classes/proffs:

election law (levin)
corporations (burson)
copyright (mcmanis)
pretrial (shields)

Also if anybody has taken Magarian's freedom of expression seminar, Id love to hear your thoughts.

[romothesavior]

Anybody know the 1L median #s?

[fl0w]

I need suggestions for textbooks in Evidence, Copyrights, Patents, and Pre-trial. Buy/not buy/buy older version.

evidence - don't buy
copyrights - dunno, didn't take it. but i imagine if your book has the right cases in it, you're fine
patents - with the patent law being changed last year, a new book might have some commentary on it or something. but much case law? doubtful.
pre-trail - don't buy

[lukertin]

I need suggestions for textbooks in Evidence, Copyrights, Patents, and Pre-trial. Buy/not buy/buy older version.

copyrights -- you need the new version. well maybe not, you could probably get away with just reading the new case law that is in the new version.

patents -- just buy the old version. there are like 5 cases new to the book that you will encounter in the course. i have the previous looseleaf edition, i'd be willing to sell it to you for like, $50. then again since Baker is no longer teaching patent law youll be facing the high expectations and crazy course path Kevin takes, if adv patent law was any indication.

[konar]

Anybody know the 1L median #s?

I would guess ~3.71/167.

[romothesavior]

Anybody know the 1L median #s?

I would guess ~3.71/167.

I heard the GPA was high. What are you basing this on? 3.71/167 would be decent for this cycle.

[lukertin]

I heard the GPA was high. What are you basing this on? 3.71/167 would be decent for this cycle.

badmonkey is part of the incoming 1L class. He, by himself, inflates every statistic.

[romothesavior]

I heard the GPA was high. What are you basing this on? 3.71/167 would be decent for this cycle.

badmonkey is part of the incoming 1L class. He, by himself, inflates every statistic.

I don't know who that is... should I?

[lukertin]

I heard the GPA was high. What are you basing this on? 3.71/167 would be decent for this cycle.

badmonkey is part of the incoming 1L class. He, by himself, inflates every statistic.

I don't know who that is... should I?

he's only one of the mods here...lol

[romothesavior]

There's a badfish, but no badmonkey.

I also just realized I haven't met a soul from the new class IRL yet. Dat 3L apathy.

[lukertin]

There's a badfish, but no badmonkey.

I also just realized I haven't met a soul from the new class IRL yet. Dat 3L apathy.

Oh yea.

that's Clint Eastwood. he used to be bad.monkey and then changed his name to Clint Eastwood. Those of us who knew him before the change still call him badmonkey

[fl0w]

I've been terrible about meeting or talking to any 1Ls. I don't give a fuck mode has really settled in.

[Total Litigator]

Wash U should post those class of 2015 numbers stat...

[romothesavior]

Wash U should post those class of 2015 numbers stat...

The fact that they haven't is a little concerning.

[konar]

I think my 167 LSAT prediction could be a bit optimistic unfortunately. It looks like a 166 is possible based off the late waitlist movement on LSN. It took them a while to dip into the worst 167s though(don't ask me how I know that ).They said the GPA was the highest ever at least.

[soccerfreak]

Wash U should post those class of 2015 numbers stat...

The fact that they haven't is a little concerning.

Last year I thought it took some time after school started...

[romothesavior]

Wash U should post those class of 2015 numbers stat...

The fact that they haven't is a little concerning.

Last year I thought it took some time after school started...

Did it? Probably irrational speculation on my part then. I also heard the GPA was high though so that's good.

[soccerfreak]

Wash U should post those class of 2015 numbers stat...

The fact that they haven't is a little concerning.

Last year I thought it took some time after school started...

Did it? Probably irrational speculation on my part then. I also heard the GPA was high though so that's good.

In my mind it took a few weeks, although the Dean did make a comment at orientation about having the "most accomplished" class of all time or something like that.

[Oban]

Every class is the most accomplished class of all time

[disco_stu]

The dean said we were "in many ways" the most accomplished class. That means we suck. I'm guessing a huge drop in the LSAT scores.

[goldeneye]

what exactly is the effort required for the readings in legal practice and legal research?

[stratocophic]

what exactly is the effort required for the readings in legal practice and legal research?

didn't do em. use them as a guide for your assignments, but probably no need otherwise

[goldeneye]

what exactly is the effort required for the readings in legal practice and legal research?

didn't do em. use them as a guide for your assignments, but probably no need otherwise

Even if the syllabus says they may call on people? I guess they're only a total of 3 credits anyways

[romothesavior]

Who are your LP/LR profs? I literally never opened my LP book the whole year, and I only opened the LR one when it was crunch time for the test. And I know I'm not alone there.

[soccerfreak]

what exactly is the effort required for the readings in legal practice and legal research?

didn't do em. use them as a guide for your assignments, but probably no need otherwise

Even if the syllabus says they may call on people? I guess they're only a total of 3 credits anyways

I read for the first class and never opened them again, except for the bluebook