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Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 8:08 am
by addie1412
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Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:48 am
by 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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:49 am
by Paul Campos
Not intended as legal advice
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:52 am
by addie1412
Paul Campos wrote: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
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:19 am
by MKC
Paul Campos wrote: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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:40 am
by Justtrying2help
Is that the real Paul Campos?
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:58 am
by MKC
Justtrying2help wrote:Is that the real Paul Campos?
Yes.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:07 am
by tomwatts
addie1412 wrote: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.
Paul Campos wrote:Penn: ... Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.
Um, Penn State is not Penn.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:12 am
by sublime
Holy shit.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:41 am
by First Offense
Paul Campos wrote: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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 12:54 am
by texteach
Paul Campos wrote: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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:44 am
by BuddyHoller
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 8:19 am
by lymenheimer
tomwatts wrote:addie1412 wrote: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.
Paul Campos wrote:Penn: ... Also hasn't recovered from the Sandusky scandal.
Um, Penn State is not Penn.
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Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 9:09 am
by KissMyAxe
tomwatts wrote:addie1412 wrote: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.
Paul Campos wrote: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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 10:42 am
by 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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:47 pm
by 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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:21 pm
by JenDarby
sublime wrote:Holy shit.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:31 pm
by UVA2B
JenDarby wrote:sublime wrote:Holy shit.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:35 pm
by Nonconsecutive
Received massively unexpected enjoyment from this thread.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:09 pm
by Roy McAvoy
KissMyAxe wrote:
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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:17 pm
by grades??
Roy McAvoy wrote:KissMyAxe wrote:
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
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:30 pm
by KissMyAxe
grades?? wrote:Roy McAvoy wrote:KissMyAxe wrote:
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.
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:45 pm
by Blackfish
lol
Re: Schools with a more competitive academic vibe
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:29 pm
by Roy McAvoy
KissMyAxe wrote:grades?? wrote:Roy McAvoy wrote:KissMyAxe wrote:
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
