nmop_apisdn wrote:OP is a gold digger. HTH
who isnt?
nmop_apisdn wrote:OP is a gold digger. HTH
I'm not. I'm slumming, rich girls don't do the weird stuff.hoogs23 wrote:nmop_apisdn wrote:OP is a gold digger. HTH
who isnt?
I think you misunderstand. You pay $300,000 and then end up with zeroTripTrip wrote:He's not joking. NYLS students got bling bling. It's actually ranked #0 on USNWR, but you have to pay $300,000 to access those rankings. Only rich people know it's the best.ksllaw wrote:I can't tell if you're joking or notdingbat wrote:I'm gonna go with NYLS: the vast majority of the student body has no problem pissing $50k/year down the toilet, so they got to be rich
Nah man. There's a secret rich people law society where NYLS graduates practice.dingbat wrote:I think you misunderstand. You pay $300,000 and then end up with zeroTripTrip wrote:He's not joking. NYLS students got bling bling. It's actually ranked #0 on USNWR, but you have to pay $300,000 to access those rankings. Only rich people know it's the best.ksllaw wrote:I can't tell if you're joking or notdingbat wrote:I'm gonna go with NYLS: the vast majority of the student body has no problem pissing $50k/year down the toilet, so they got to be rich
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I really want to edit this quote, but it'd be banworthyB90 wrote:Wouldn't it be Yale? I heard Yale admits one tokenpoorper year.
I don't remember family income being a part of the Yale application.B90 wrote:Wouldn't it be Yale? I mean, Harvard has such a large class that they can afford to admit a few poors. I heard Yale admits one token poor per year.
Very subtle humblebrag. Well done.TripTrip wrote:I don't remember family income being a part of the Yale application.B90 wrote:Wouldn't it be Yale? I mean, Harvard has such a large class that they can afford to admit a few poors. I heard Yale admits one token poor per year.
This post should be framed. Extremely well put.ksllaw wrote:At the elite universities, only 8% of all students come from the bottom 50% of the socio-economic class in the U.S. Nobel Laureate economist, Joseph Stiglitz, discusses this, along with other issues relating to economic inequality in the U.S., in this brief clip/chat (about his new book, The Price of Inequality):
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ti ... 38674.html
Stiglitz argues that there's a myth of socio-economic mobility in the U.S. Rather than being the great land of opportunity, he argues, the U.S. has a more rigid class structure than even old Europe. By and large, the class you are born into in the U.S. is the one you will remain in.
As for law school inequality, I think that while merit may play a greater role in law school entrance than in undergraduate admissions, it may still be difficult to completely decouple "merit" from family wealth.
The types of resources available to the wealthy can give them advantages throughout life and throughout the "merit" building process (of attaining grades and entrance exam scores). Access to private tutors and better schools throughout secondary school, for example, may have contributed signficantly to the building up a stronger set of skills that were used to attain better grades in UG. Likewise, access to expensive LSAT prep courses may have given a wealthy student an advantage over someone without the means to pay for that type of help (I do know that people attempt the LSAT without such private tutoring and training). Perhaps the most valuable asset provided by wealth is simply the time available to study that working students may not have as much of.
There are a number of things that wealth may provide that contributes to the success of a student, so that I think it's still difficult to completely decouple wealth from merit in law school admissions.
wtf is HSCNCPBorg wrote:I don't necessarily disagree, but I have a couple of thoughts. The first is that there is a question of whether we are discussing the median or the total. If it's the total, then I agree that the large class size and likely outliers probably puts Harvard squarely in first place. If it's the median, I wonder if the meritocracy works against it. As a student at one of HSCNCP who grew up far from rich, I know that there are a lot of people like me at my school. Wealth might help, but you really have to bust your ass to get into a school like that, and a lot of people both rich and poor don't have what it takes. The average Harvard undergrad only gets about a 165 LSAT, which isn't even close to good enough to get into HLS.bdubs wrote:It's one of the largest top law schools with over 550 students per class. Those students generally came from top undergrads and did extremely well there which is generally correlated with having wealthy parents.Borg wrote:By aggregate do you mean that you're including alumni? If not, what's the rationale?bdubs wrote:I'm going to go with Harvard. No question that, in aggregate, it's got the richest students of any law school.
Schools with more reasonable GPA and LSAT medians have fatter sections of the curve from which to choose, and some of those schools have reputations as rich kid havens (USC, Vanderbilt, and SMU come to mind). I wonder if rich kids who aren't T-14 material (including Ivy undergrads) tend to flock to those schools over their peers, inflating the median income level. No way to know, but it would be interesting to see.
Anyway, I guess this is just a long way of saying that I'm guessing and can't offer anything of real value.
harvard stanford columbia nyu chic penn2014 wrote:
wtf is HSCNCP
trolling hard for penn2014 wrote: wtf is HSCNCP
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Considering I believe he goes to Chicago, awesome.BerkeleyBear wrote:"HSCNCP"
Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Cornell, Penn
Thats my guess.
Seriously, only TTTT rich people live in the south.Stanford4Me wrote:Although I went to SMU UG and experienced the richness thereof, I have to say the students here on the East Coast probably have more money than those Southern Princes and Princesses do.
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I can only speak for USC, but it seems to me that the UG population is where most of the wealth is concentrated. It seems that a lot of the class chose USC over T14 for the $$$.Borg wrote:I don't necessarily disagree, but I have a couple of thoughts. The first is that there is a question of whether we are discussing the median or the total. If it's the total, then I agree that the large class size and likely outliers probably puts Harvard squarely in first place. If it's the median, I wonder if the meritocracy works against it. As a student at one of HSCNCP who grew up far from rich, I know that there are a lot of people like me at my school. Wealth might help, but you really have to bust your ass to get into a school like that, and a lot of people both rich and poor don't have what it takes. The average Harvard undergrad only gets about a 165 LSAT, which isn't even close to good enough to get into HLS.bdubs wrote:It's one of the largest top law schools with over 550 students per class. Those students generally came from top undergrads and did extremely well there which is generally correlated with having wealthy parents.Borg wrote:By aggregate do you mean that you're including alumni? If not, what's the rationale?bdubs wrote:I'm going to go with Harvard. No question that, in aggregate, it's got the richest students of any law school.
Schools with more reasonable GPA and LSAT medians have fatter sections of the curve from which to choose, and some of those schools have reputations as rich kid havens (USC, Vanderbilt, and SMU come to mind). I wonder if rich kids who aren't T-14 material (including Ivy undergrads) tend to flock to those schools over their peers, inflating the median income level. No way to know, but it would be interesting to see.
Anyway, I guess this is just a long way of saying that I'm guessing and can't offer anything of real value.
And isn't marriage among law students fairly common? OP might be on to something.hoogs23 wrote:nmop_apisdn wrote:OP is a gold digger. HTH
who isnt?
That was back when lawyers got jobs that paid money.bowser wrote:Someone told me they used to call the reading room at the Michigan Law Library the "Breeding Room," 'cause girls would hang out there hoping to hook up with a future law grad.
As a current law student I find this impossible to believe.
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You are dead to meBerkeleyBear wrote:"HSCNCP"
Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Cornell, Penn
Thats my guess.
dem new rankings brah2014 wrote:How dare he put NYU in front of Chicago. He MUST have meant Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, NYU, Columbia, Penn.
Maybe he meant Howard, Samford, Cooley, Northeastern, Charlotte, Pacific
That would make a lot more sense imo.
I meant Harvard Stanford Columbia NYU Chicago or Penn.2014 wrote:wtf is HSCNCP
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