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who is more impressive to you:
top 5% + Law review at TTT like Drake/Albany/Mercer/NYLS
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top top 1/2 at somewhere like GULC/Duke/Cornell
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top top 1/2 at somewhere like GULC/Duke/Cornell
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- jonas586
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
The latter
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Latter but only if its dook
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Former, I think. Law school is pretty difficult no matter where you go, from what I gather. Top 5% is impressive anywhere, plus students at lower ranked schools are often more competitive than students at higher ranked schools (due to the desire to transfer).
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- Gunz353
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Label whores
- najumobi
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
+1traehekat wrote:Former, I think. Law school is pretty difficult no matter where you go, from what I gather. Top 5% is impressive anywhere, plus students at lower ranked schools are often more competitive than students at higher ranked schools (due to the desire to transfer).
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
You guys realize you are talking about top third at Cornell vs. top 5% at New York Law School, right? Right? How is this even a question?
The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.
The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Aren't those roughly the biglaw cutoffs ITE?Bosque wrote:You guys realize you are talking about top third at Cornell vs. top 5% at New York Law School, right? Right? How is this even a question?
The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Any TLSer that says former is a dirty liar tryin to look good
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
TITCR. TLSOli wrote:Any TLSer that says former is a dirty liar tryin to look good
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Top 5% at NYLS was the biglaw cut-off before ITE.im_blue wrote:Aren't those roughly the biglaw cutoffs ITE?Bosque wrote:You guys realize you are talking about top third at Cornell vs. top 5% at New York Law School, right? Right? How is this even a question?
The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
The former is more impressive, but I would rather be the latter.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
It may be difficult but its graded on a curve. People at Georgetown are smarter on average.traehekat wrote:Former, I think. Law school is pretty difficult no matter where you go, from what I gather. Top 5% is impressive anywhere, plus students at lower ranked schools are often more competitive than students at higher ranked schools (due to the desire to transfer).
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
ITE would probably make the cuttoff top 2/3%, now making biglaw practically out of reach for NYLS peeps. gone are the days when NYLS students had a realistic chance at biglaw.rayiner wrote:Top 5% at NYLS was the biglaw cut-off before ITE.im_blue wrote:Aren't those roughly the biglaw cutoffs ITE?Bosque wrote:You guys realize you are talking about top third at Cornell vs. top 5% at New York Law School, right? Right? How is this even a question?
The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
TITCR.Thirteen wrote:The former is more impressive, but I would rather be the latter.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
I say the latter. Doing well in law school is one thing, but getting into a top law shows long-term commitment.
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- los blancos
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
This is an interesting question. I don't know which I would choose.
This is going to sound elitist, but while those top 5%ers at TTTs are usually pretty damn smart, they are competing against a curve of lots of relatively unintelligent people.
This is going to sound elitist, but while those top 5%ers at TTTs are usually pretty damn smart, they are competing against a curve of lots of relatively unintelligent people.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Seriously? The minimum for getting into Cornell requires four years of slacking in UG and excelling for three hours of your life.JazzOne wrote:I say the latter. Doing well in law school is one thing, but getting into a top law shows long-term commitment.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Few people excel for those three hours without a lot of prep (either in UG or independently).vanwinkle wrote:Seriously? The minimum for getting into Cornell requires four years of slacking in UG and excelling for three hours of your life.JazzOne wrote:I say the latter. Doing well in law school is one thing, but getting into a top law shows long-term commitment.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
And the minimum for NYLS is four years slacking and then massively fucking up a three hour test.vanwinkle wrote:Seriously? The minimum for getting into Cornell requires four years of slacking in UG and excelling for three hours of your life.JazzOne wrote:I say the latter. Doing well in law school is one thing, but getting into a top law shows long-term commitment.
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- jcunni5
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
what is more impressive?
the person you meet that says he graduated from Georgetown Law
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the person you meet that graduated from NYLS or John Marshall but insists he graduated at the top of his class
if you asked me when phrased this way there is no way i would be more impressed by the TTTT individual
the person you meet that says he graduated from Georgetown Law
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the person you meet that graduated from NYLS or John Marshall but insists he graduated at the top of his class
if you asked me when phrased this way there is no way i would be more impressed by the TTTT individual
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
+1, I have a bit of perspective on thisDesert Fox wrote:It may be difficult but its graded on a curve. People at Georgetown are smarter on average.traehekat wrote:Former, I think. Law school is pretty difficult no matter where you go, from what I gather. Top 5% is impressive anywhere, plus students at lower ranked schools are often more competitive than students at higher ranked schools (due to the desire to transfer).
I went to one of the low-ranked schools you mentioned for UG (it wasn't Harvard, but the UG there is a bit more respectable than the law school). I know a few people from UG who wound up at the law school on full tuition schollys and finished top 15-20%, which while a ways from top 5%, is still pretty high up, and while these were resonably bright people, there is no way they were qualified for Georgetown or better. If you were talking about top 5% at say, Florida, Colorado, American, etc, I think you would have a pretty good question. Also, I'm not sure how competitive it was, but from what I could gater I don't think most people were working super hard trying to transfer up, as many would have been content just to get a job in the state.
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Which one describes you best?
Attending a T2/T3 school with hopes of Big Law
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Attending a lower T-14 and are worried about career prospects?
Attending a T2/T3 school with hopes of Big Law
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Attending a lower T-14 and are worried about career prospects?
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Re: who is more impressive to you:
Not sure if that is directed at me, but in any case I was talking about my undergrad...Space_Cowboy wrote:Which one describes you best?
Attending a T2/T3 school with hopes of Big Law
OR
Attending a lower T-14 and are worried about career prospects?
And if it is directed at me, then neither(middle tier 1 or upper tier 2/JAG/SJA)...
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