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Ask away. Currently a 1L.

1. How'd exams go? Are students there cooperative or competitive?

2. How are the profs? Are you able to build any relationships with them? Are they open to students dropping by during office hours?

3. Does BU do interview rounds for summer internships or are you stuck finding them?

4. How much is law school costing you out of pocket? Did you qualify for any Need-based scholarship?

5. At this point, do you actually feel like you'll be able to find a job?

6. Do you live off-campus, if so where and how do you get to campus?

7. What is your class schedule like? When do you start and finish classes everyday?

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1. Exams are stressful. It's a month of build up of everyone talking about their outlines. But it's like this at every school. Students are very cooperative and often trade upper level's outlines. "Do you have a torts outline for professor X?" "Yeah, I have a few from my friends, let me send them to you!" 2Ls and 3Ls want to throw advice, outlines, and notes on to you. Very helpful peers. Every school will tell you this, though.

2. Profs are a mix of great teachers and great minds. We have one of the highest ranked teaching staffs. For the most part, everyone likes the professors. When they don't like the professor, it's mostly teaching style than anything. tl;dr it's on a much more "personal" level than whether they're good teachers or not. Everyone teaches, teaches well, and has their own style of teaching. As of yet I have not had a teacher I did not like. I've had 7 teachers: 3 first semester, 4 this semester.

Students stop by office hours, but not as much as you'd expect. That's because most people get in their questions after class.

3. I'm not sure what you mean by interview rounds. Everyone applies to internships themselves. You can do mock interviews if you sign up for them at the career development office.

4. I prefer not to be specific here, for privacy. I got a significant scholarship, more than 50%.

5. Yes. BU has a ton of events. Also, even if you're not a person of color, go to the dang affinity group events. They don't care what your race is at the networking events. Source: Me b/c I've been to plenty. It goes without saying that grades are very important, though. Generally top 1/3 is needed for biglaw interviews.

6. I would wager 90% of students live of campus. Most in Allston/Brighton, some in Brookline, and high-rollers in Kenmore.

7. It depends on your section. There are 3 sections for 1L: section A B and C.

Last semester, there was a section that had no class Fridays. But they have class Fridays this semester.
Another section DID have class Fridays last semester, but now they don't. Classes start generally

These two generally started at 8:30~9:00 AM and ended around 2 or 3 PM.

The third section had class everyday, but started at much later times (11 AM).

I'm not quite sure how the registrar chooses the sections.

I applied to both to BU and BC. BC did not offer a lot of money, it's much further from downtown, and I didn't feel like I was a "fit." I don't mean to bang on BC at all. I already have a few friends from BC that I've met at recruiting events. They're chill and for the most part you are in the same boat as them for the Boston market. I chose BU because it gave more money, personal relationship reasons, and it places well in big law/nationally.

Also, I loved hearing Dean O'Rourke. She doesn't beat around the bush about legal education and the current slump in legal hiring. Culturally BU Law is business focused, practical, high on networking, and to-the-point. If you've visited Northwestern Law, they're the closest school to us "culturally" when it comes to legal education.