Why is UC Berkeley Law So Hard to Get Into? Forum

[kjunfood]

im sad ppl hijacked my thread lol

[fsohn]

That's funny, 'cause the people I know who went to University of Chicago said it was a bloody joke.

It's come closer to being a joke since the Core reforms (aka pillaging of our academic treasure by a series of incomptent and malevolent administrator-infidels), but it still remains a non-joke.

I hope you all realize that I'm being intentionally over-the-top.

I do. I hope you realize I don't actually think University of Chicago is a joke, I was just being flip.

But I really don't know if I think of it as top ten. I don't think of my school as top ten, and the kids who transferred to Chicago all transferred back because they said it wasn't very challenging (my school is filled with dorks who enjoy rigorous classes).

Chicago snuck into the top ten last year over Dartmouth, but I'd hardly put it over the latter overall. It'll probably drop back after Dartmouth's president gets replaced.

Its a great school, but isn't quite on the level of Duke-Penn-Dartmouth-Columbia that typically have a stronghold on the lower half of the top ten behind HYP and then Stanford/MIT/CIT

Again, I argue only from experience, but I've really never met a graduate from Dartmouth or Penn by whom I was impressed. Duke really shouldn't even enter the conversation. Columbia, imho, is only marginally on the level.

There's one thing I'm glad we can all agree on: Brown SUCKS.

[Other25BeforeYou]

It's come closer to being a joke since the Core reforms (aka pillaging of our academic treasure by a series of incomptent and malevolent administrator-infidels), but it still remains a non-joke.

I hope you all realize that I'm being intentionally over-the-top.

I do. I hope you realize I don't actually think University of Chicago is a joke, I was just being flip.

But I really don't know if I think of it as top ten. I don't think of my school as top ten, and the kids who transferred to Chicago all transferred back because they said it wasn't very challenging (my school is filled with dorks who enjoy rigorous classes).

Chicago snuck into the top ten last year over Dartmouth, but I'd hardly put it over the latter overall. It'll probably drop back after Dartmouth's president gets replaced.

Its a great school, but isn't quite on the level of Duke-Penn-Dartmouth-Columbia that typically have a stronghold on the lower half of the top ten behind HYP and then Stanford/MIT/CIT

Again, I argue only from experience, but I've really never met a graduate from Dartmouth or Penn by whom I was impressed. Duke really shouldn't even enter the conversation. Columbia, imho, is only marginally on the level.

There's one thing I'm glad we can all agree on: Brown SUCKS.

Yeah, Brown is lame.

[mcds]

Again, I argue only from experience, but I've really never met a graduate from Dartmouth or Penn by whom I was impressed. Duke really shouldn't even enter the conversation. Columbia, imho, is only marginally on the level.

There's one thing I'm glad we can all agree on: Brown SUCKS.

Well theres some flawed reasoning right there isn't it!
Chicago is a great school, but its almost always been behind those other schools. Particularly considering its a research powerhouse and Dartmouth is just a liberal arts school. I think Dartmouth's academic reputation is what is (or was) keeping it in the Top 10.

Like I said earlier though, there is such a marginal difference between the quality from #4-#12 in the US News World Rankings on the UG side.

[fsohn]

I don't think anyone is trying to strictly apply the rules of logic here.

[KP429]

Very true, most of you guys are idiots anyway.

[fsohn]

I fully agree with anyone who calls me an idiot.

[Son of Cicero]

Why is UC Berkeley Law So Hard to Get Into?

This video should answer your question:
http://abovethelaw.com/2008/10/to_the_w ... l_till.php

Are you bad enough to roll with these mofos? Of course not.

[underdawg]

that video is really stupid

[underdawg]

okay i just saw the dance interlude

ignore my previous comment

[izcanzbelawyrnow?]

Academically I would say the Ivies go Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia/Dartmouth/Penn, Brown, Cornell.

From a strictly academic perspective Swarthmore, Amherst and Williams - in my opinion - could rank equal or higher in that department than any of the lower Ivies.

care to add stan, MIT or CalTech?

No.

The "Ivy League" is the name of their athletic conference.

[smiley26]

Why is UC Berkeley Law So Hard to Get Into?

This video should answer your question:
http://abovethelaw.com/2008/10/to_the_w ... l_till.php

Are you bad enough to roll with these mofos? Of course not.

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