Schools with a more competitive academic vibe Forum

[addie1412]

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[Paul Campos]

Let's do this in reverse metaphysical order

Georgetown: Yeah it's "rigorous" -- for a diploma mill. This year's 25th LSAT is projected to be 153.

Cornell: Law school shares building space with a truck driver training facility. Very cold.

Northwestern: All they care about is work experience, aka VoTech U.

Duke: Finishing school for southern gentlemen.

Michigan: Have you seen their football stadium? Also, it's a state school.

Berkeley: LOL

Virginia: Basically a big-ass frat.

Penn: Full of sullen preps who didn't get into the real Ivy League. Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.

NYU: Real estate hedge fund masquerading as a university. Good place to go if you're into helping poor people and are also eager to pay $4000 a month for a studio apartment,

Chicago: Everyone who has ever gone there or wanted to go there is absolutely certain that it is the most rigorous law school that there is or ever could be. This is called getting high on your own supply.

Columbia: Trade school in Harlem. Has never gotten over not being Harvard.

Stanford: No Stanford 2L or 3L has ever been observed in a law school classroom. They're all too busy thinkfluencing at SV internships.

Harvard: Harvard is Harvard. Harvard thinks "rigor" is for dweebs. Harvard is right.

Yale: Three-year bar review course.

[Paul Campos]

Not intended as legal advice

[addie1412]

Let's do this in reverse metaphysical order

Georgetown: Yeah it's "rigorous" -- for a diploma mill. This year's 25th LSAT is projected to be 153.

Cornell: Law school shares building space with a truck driver training facility. Very cold.

Northwestern: All they care about is work experience, aka VoTech U.

Duke: Finishing school for southern gentlemen.

Michigan: Have you seen their football stadium? Also, it's a state school.

Berkeley: LOL

Virginia: Basically a big-ass frat.

Penn: Full of sullen preps who didn't get into the real Ivy League. Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.

NYU: Real estate hedge fund masquerading as a university. Good place to go if you're into helping poor people and are also eager to pay $4000 a month for a studio apartment,

Columbia: Trade school in Harlem. Has never gotten over not being Harvard.

Stanford: No Stanford 2L or 3L has ever been observed in a law school classroom. They're all too busy thinkfluencing at SV internships.

Harvard: Harvard is Harvard. Harvard thinks "rigor" is for dweebs. Harvard is right.

Yale: Three-year bar review course.

made my morning

[MKC]

Let's do this in reverse metaphysical order

Georgetown: Yeah it's "rigorous" -- for a diploma mill. This year's 25th LSAT is projected to be 153.

Cornell: Law school shares building space with a truck driver training facility. Very cold.

Northwestern: All they care about is work experience, aka VoTech U.

Duke: Finishing school for southern gentlemen.

Michigan: Have you seen their football stadium? Also, it's a state school.

Berkeley: LOL

Virginia: Basically a big-ass frat.

Penn: Full of sullen preps who didn't get into the real Ivy League. Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.

NYU: Real estate hedge fund masquerading as a university. Good place to go if you're into helping poor people and are also eager to pay $4000 a month for a studio apartment,

Columbia: Trade school in Harlem. Has never gotten over not being Harvard.

Stanford: No Stanford 2L or 3L has ever been observed in a law school classroom. They're all too busy thinkfluencing at SV internships.

Harvard: Harvard is Harvard. Harvard thinks "rigor" is for dweebs. Harvard is right.

Yale: Three-year bar review course.

Just beautiful man. I think I'm tearing up.

[Justtrying2help]

Is that the real Paul Campos?

[MKC]

Is that the real Paul Campos?

Yes.

[tomwatts]

gaining practical skills and experience

Is there a law school in the country that emphasizes this? Nearly every law school emphasizes theory over practice, I thought.

But in terms of schools that don't even teach law, I think Yale Law is pretty well-known for not teaching law.

Penn: ... Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.

Um, Penn State is not Penn.

[sublime]

Holy shit.

[First Offense]

Let's do this in reverse metaphysical order

Georgetown: Yeah it's "rigorous" -- for a diploma mill. This year's 25th LSAT is projected to be 153.

Cornell: Law school shares building space with a truck driver training facility. Very cold.

Northwestern: All they care about is work experience, aka VoTech U.

Duke: Finishing school for southern gentlemen.

Michigan: Have you seen their football stadium? Also, it's a state school.

Berkeley: LOL

Virginia: Basically a big-ass frat.

Penn: Full of sullen preps who didn't get into the real Ivy League. Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.

NYU: Real estate hedge fund masquerading as a university. Good place to go if you're into helping poor people and are also eager to pay $4000 a month for a studio apartment,

Columbia: Trade school in Harlem. Has never gotten over not being Harvard.

Stanford: No Stanford 2L or 3L has ever been observed in a law school classroom. They're all too busy thinkfluencing at SV internships.

Harvard: Harvard is Harvard. Harvard thinks "rigor" is for dweebs. Harvard is right.

Yale: Three-year bar review course.

Dead.

[texteach]

Let's do this in reverse metaphysical order

Georgetown: Yeah it's "rigorous" -- for a diploma mill. This year's 25th LSAT is projected to be 153.

Cornell: Law school shares building space with a truck driver training facility. Very cold.

Northwestern: All they care about is work experience, aka VoTech U.

Duke: Finishing school for southern gentlemen.

Michigan: Have you seen their football stadium? Also, it's a state school.

Berkeley: LOL

Virginia: Basically a big-ass frat.

Penn: Full of sullen preps who didn't get into the real Ivy League. Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.

NYU: Real estate hedge fund masquerading as a university. Good place to go if you're into helping poor people and are also eager to pay $4000 a month for a studio apartment,

Chicago: Everyone who has ever gone there or wanted to go there is absolutely certain that it is the most rigorous law school that there is or ever could be. This is called getting high on your own supply.

Columbia: Trade school in Harlem. Has never gotten over not being Harvard.

Stanford: No Stanford 2L or 3L has ever been observed in a law school classroom. They're all too busy thinkfluencing at SV internships.

Harvard: Harvard is Harvard. Harvard thinks "rigor" is for dweebs. Harvard is right.

Yale: Three-year bar review course.

I'm shook.

[BuddyHoller]

[lymenheimer]

gaining practical skills and experience

Is there a law school in the country that emphasizes this? Nearly every law school emphasizes theory over practice, I thought.

Baylor (3L trial courses). More lower tier schools. Because that's the only way their students can get jobs.

Penn: ... Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.

Um, Penn State is not Penn.

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[KissMyAxe]

gaining practical skills and experience

Is there a law school in the country that emphasizes this? Nearly every law school emphasizes theory over practice, I thought.

But in terms of schools that don't even teach law, I think Yale Law is pretty well-known for not teaching law.

Penn: ... Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.

Um, Penn State is not Penn.

First of all, they're the same school. Sucks they got left out of the playoffs.

Some schools do teach more than theory. One great example of this would be Baylor, who probably has the best training for trial attorneys available. It's unfortunate that the schools that do teach practice tend not to get their students legal employment.

As for YLS, it's basically a choose your own adventure book. You can take all your classes in theory and classes at other schools', or you can take 5 black letter classes every semester. You could also take 3 clinics if you want practical experience. First semester is a roll of the dice, one small group has 4 professors who all teach heavy doctrine. Mine has 4 who teach no doctrine and all theory.

[First Offense]

Also I will say that at least at my law school (UVA) they offered a decent array of practical classes and opportunities - whether you wanted to take them or not was up to you. One semester I took 3 "practical" classes and one Leslie class + a short course on some BS topic.

[calpolisci2016]

How does someone answer this question? You only ever attend one school, so how can someone make a reasonable comparison of all schools let alone 2 or 3? Even transfers have a limited view since they were just a 1L at one place.

[JenDarby]

Holy shit.

[UVA2B]

Holy shit.

[Nonconsecutive]

Received massively unexpected enjoyment from this thread.

[Roy McAvoy]

First of all, they're the same school. Sucks they got left out of the playoffs.

No, Penn is the ivy league University of Pennsylvania, and Penn State is the one with the football that had a chance at getting in the playoff. Granted, they were both left out, but only Penn State had a reasonable argument.

[grades??]

First of all, they're the same school. Sucks they got left out of the playoffs.

No, Penn is the ivy league University of Pennsylvania, and Penn State is the one with the football that had a chance at getting in the playoff. Granted, they were both left out, but only Penn State had a reasonable argument.

This guy still doesn't get the joke

[KissMyAxe]

First of all, they're the same school. Sucks they got left out of the playoffs.

No, Penn is the ivy league University of Pennsylvania, and Penn State is the one with the football that had a chance at getting in the playoff. Granted, they were both left out, but only Penn State had a reasonable argument.

This guy still doesn't get the joke

This is true, maybe we could clear it up for him.

Roy, people sometimes say Penn State, and sometimes say Penn for short. There aren't two schools, just one, but I can see why that would be confusing. It was in the news a few years ago because one of their football coaches was molesting children for twenty years. I didn't know it had an okay law school, but that's neat I guess.

[Blackfish]

lol

[Roy McAvoy]

First of all, they're the same school. Sucks they got left out of the playoffs.

No, Penn is the ivy league University of Pennsylvania, and Penn State is the one with the football that had a chance at getting in the playoff. Granted, they were both left out, but only Penn State had a reasonable argument.

This guy still doesn't get the joke

This is true, maybe we could clear it up for him.

Roy, people sometimes say Penn State, and sometimes say Penn for short. There aren't two schools, just one, but I can see why that would be confusing. It was in the news a few years ago because one of their football coaches was molesting children for twenty years. I didn't know it had an okay law school, but that's neat I guess.

I clearly took the joke too far. My bad