UChi Students & Alumni Taking Questions Forum

[Crowing]

Keep in mind with the way 1L is structured here, fall quarter is pretty much a vacation and you will have plenty of opportunity to learn how to law school then.

[WhiteyCakes]

Keep in mind with the way 1L is structured here, fall quarter is pretty much a vacation and you will have plenty of opportunity to learn how to law school then.

Big fan if the new avi

[random number]

Thanks! When I looked earlier Enterprise seemed cheaper, but I was concerned about the difficulty of finding local cars.

[midwest17]

Thanks! When I looked earlier Enterprise seemed cheaper, but I was concerned about the difficulty of finding local cars.

If you use ZipCar, make sure you get the UChicago discount. I don't know if a similar thing exists for Enterprise.

With both of them you should be able to see where the locations are and compare it to where you live before you sign up.

[random number]

Thanks! When I looked earlier Enterprise seemed cheaper, but I was concerned about the difficulty of finding local cars.

If you use ZipCar, make sure you get the UChicago discount. I don't know if a similar thing exists for Enterprise.

With both of them you should be able to see where the locations are and compare it to where you live before you sign up.

Thanks for the info - I hadn't seen the student discount.

[applelover]

Keep in mind with the way 1L is structured here, fall quarter is pretty much a vacation and you will have plenty of opportunity to learn how to law school then.

Thanks!

[2014]

The posters giving you advice are 1Ls in spring quarter

No

[20141023]

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[Neal Patrick Harris]

The posters giving you advice are 1Ls in spring quarter

No

Boop, terrible, mal.

Let's play a game called name that 2L/3L/Grad. I don't even go here anymore and I can tell from the thread...

[applelover]

Awwww man... I take a short 5-hour nap and I miss all the ass burgers action in this thread. That's okay, though, because I am able to contribute to the ass burgers with each post I make.

Don't contribute

[20141023]

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[applelover]

Awwww man... I take a short 5-hour nap and I miss all the ass burgers action in this thread. That's okay, though, because I am able to contribute to the ass burgers with each post I make.

Don't contribute

[eliminatorjr]

So if I don't live at Regents, will I have any problems catching the buses at different stops? I realize it probably depends, but are there any areas where the CTA is always really packed?

[20141023]

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[midwest17]

So if I don't live at Regents, will I have any problems catching the buses at different stops? I realize it probably depends, but are there any areas where the CTA is always really packed?

Depends on the bus / time / location. For example, in the mornings, as the 172 approaches the law school, it get progressively more packed.

If it's right before a lot of undergrad classes start, the 171 is sometimes too full to pick people up once it passes TI (especially when it's cold out).

[Ricky-Bobby]

How do employers find out your grades at OCI? I know GPA isn't allowed on your resume and you're "not allowed" to estimate class rank in interviews, so do they rely on signaling like LR and K&E Scholars? How do they know who's median and who's above?

This probably has a simple answer, but I can't find it.

[Jaqen]

How do employers find out your grades at OCI? I know GPA isn't allowed on your resume and you're "not allowed" to estimate class rank in interviews, so do they rely on signaling like LR and K&E Scholars? How do they know who's median and who's above?

This probably has a simple answer, but I can't find it.

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[Ricky-Bobby]

Oh well that defeats the whole "no gpa on the resume" thing then, huh?

Obviously you give them a transcript. Man I'm dumb.

[WheninLaw]

How do employers find out your grades at OCI? I know GPA isn't allowed on your resume and you're "not allowed" to estimate class rank in interviews, so do they rely on signaling like LR and K&E Scholars? How do they know who's median and who's above?

This probably has a simple answer, but I can't find it.

My favorite interviews were the ones in which they calculated my average in front of me. One did it with an old school calculator. Boss.

[midwest17]

How do employers find out your grades at OCI? I know GPA isn't allowed on your resume and you're "not allowed" to estimate class rank in interviews, so do they rely on signaling like LR and K&E Scholars? How do they know who's median and who's above?

This probably has a simple answer, but I can't find it.

My favorite interviews were the ones in which they calculated my average in front of me. One did it with an old school calculator. Boss.

Does the no GPA on resumes rule extend to all applications, or is it just an OCI thing?

[Crowing]

How do employers find out your grades at OCI? I know GPA isn't allowed on your resume and you're "not allowed" to estimate class rank in interviews, so do they rely on signaling like LR and K&E Scholars? How do they know who's median and who's above?

This probably has a simple answer, but I can't find it.

My favorite interviews were the ones in which they calculated my average in front of me. One did it with an old school calculator. Boss.

Does the no GPA on resumes rule extend to all applications, or is it just an OCI thing?

All afaik. I know we weren't supposed to for the 1L job search anyway.

[WheninLaw]

How do employers find out your grades at OCI? I know GPA isn't allowed on your resume and you're "not allowed" to estimate class rank in interviews, so do they rely on signaling like LR and K&E Scholars? How do they know who's median and who's above?

This probably has a simple answer, but I can't find it.

My favorite interviews were the ones in which they calculated my average in front of me. One did it with an old school calculator. Boss.

Does the no GPA on resumes rule extend to all applications, or is it just an OCI thing?

Does not extend to everything - I was told to put it on my Clerkship applications (and did).

[actexas]

Sorry if this question has been asked before, what does a shared two bed rooms apartment cost to live on campus? And one bedroom for just myself? (For min/max spending question)
Is there a housing application deadline?
Thanks

[c0llegeStUd3nt]

I was looking through reviews on Algonquin and I found this negative review (below) about safety. The review was made 6 years ago and everyone else seems positive, so just want to check to see if this has changed:

"Algonquin apartments are a high risk set of buildings, there are no doormen, no cameras watching the surrounds or inside the buildings. The doors usually stay opened to strangers by late night. In the last 6 months there were two murders inside the complex (a strangled woman and a man thrown from his window at 10th floor). The request of the residents to install cameras is frequent, but the management always have the same procedure: they still say that the building does not need such kind of security, we are safe!!!! The management did not comment on either deaths to any of the residents. They commented about a natural death of a 80 years old resident in a kind note, though. This is a disrespect in my opinion. After two deaths in the same complex and robberies surrounding the building I will move, but I am sincerely sorry for the residents that still have to deal with the negligence of the management."

[beepboopbeep]

I was looking through reviews on Algonquin and I found this negative review (below) about safety. The review was made 6 years ago and everyone else seems positive, so just want to check to see if this has changed:

"Algonquin apartments are a high risk set of buildings, there are no doormen, no cameras watching the surrounds or inside the buildings. The doors usually stay opened to strangers by late night. In the last 6 months there were two murders inside the complex (a strangled woman and a man thrown from his window at 10th floor). The request of the residents to install cameras is frequent, but the management always have the same procedure: they still say that the building does not need such kind of security, we are safe!!!! The management did not comment on either deaths to any of the residents. They commented about a natural death of a 80 years old resident in a kind note, though. This is a disrespect in my opinion. After two deaths in the same complex and robberies surrounding the building I will move, but I am sincerely sorry for the residents that still have to deal with the negligence of the management."

A friend of mine from UG lives in one of the Algonquin buildings. They don't have doormen still, but the vast majority of buildings in Hyde Park don't. I haven't seen the doors left open - I've always had to buzz in every time I've gone over there. Not sure about the cameras, but there definitely haven't been any murders. In other words, they seem about as safe as any Hyde Park building, bar Regents. The review seems like the kind of thing that someone makes when they're disgruntled about whatever other stuff and want people to stay away, especially if you don't see any of the claims repeated in other reviews.

I will say that her apartment is super nice, FWIW. One of those places where everyone who comes over goes, "wow, this is a nice apartment"