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[HorseThief]

Any estimate on how many JS1s have been given out yet? Around 100? 150?

At least 100. Someone could probably go back through the thread just to be sure.

"Edit": Okay, I was curious, so I looked it up.

• Week 1 (11/3): 25
• Week 2 (11/10): 27
• Week 3 (11/17): 48

That puts us at 100 JS1's so far (going entirely by slots available).

[antiworldly]

Any estimate on how many JS1s have been given out yet? Around 100? 150?

At least 100. Someone could probably go back through the thread just to be sure.

"Edit": Okay, I was curious, so I looked it up.

• Week 1 (11/3): 25
• Week 2 (11/10): 27
• Week 3 (11/17): 48

That puts us at 100 JS1's so far (going entirely by slots available).

So for those of us who are stressing about not getting one, only ~10%, so there's still a chance!

[LawBron James]

I have a wild guess about the slots/scheduling-

It seems like the actual slots for the js1s are in place when they send the wave. After a bit of time has passed, they post a few more slots that will actually be for the next wave to give additional options to people for whom the initial set didn't work. Once everyone from the wave has registered, they take the slots back down, and repost them before the next wave. Does that make any sense/does anyone else who has seen the schedule agree or disagree?

You're spot on. I've been seeing spots for Dec. 1st every few days over the past 2 weeks, but every time I refresh the page, they're gone. I think it's just how their scheduler works. The program won't allow them to hide a slot until it actually exists, so lame folk like myself who have nothing better to do but f5 their page get to see what they're planning.


PS: Post 500

Lame folk like you help keep overly neurotic people like me sane. So feel no shame!

[xylocarp]

PS: Post 500

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[nyanyanya]

It seems all JS1 invites this year were sent out on either Monday or Friday, so maybe we can expect the next wave to be on this Friday?

[BillsFan9907]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

[Mack.Hambleton]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

They're rich

[LSATneurotic]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

A hamilton would be prettty tempting. I'd probably still opt for Harvard though but that's just cause I'm ambitious. If my only goal was making $$$ then I'd obviously take the scholarship and run.

[BillsFan9907]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

A hamilton would be prettty tempting. I'd probably still opt for Harvard though but that's just cause I'm ambitious. If my only goal was making $$$ then I'd obviously take the scholarship and run.

Please expand! How does HLS better satisfy ambition than CLS ?

[blueberrycrumble]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

A hamilton would be prettty tempting. I'd probably still opt for Harvard though but that's just cause I'm ambitious. If my only goal was making $$$ then I'd obviously take the scholarship and run.

What are your ambitions?

[WeeBey]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

aren't a Ruby/Hammy the best possible outcomes in the ls admissions game? I think people fail to realize how much debt 250k is. Anything you can do with a Harvard jd you can with a cls jd. Even if you have to place a little higher in your CLS class for a clerkship, that extra effort to me is easily worth 250k.

[LSATneurotic]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

A hamilton would be prettty tempting. I'd probably still opt for Harvard though but that's just cause I'm ambitious. If my only goal was making $$$ then I'd obviously take the scholarship and run.

Please expand! How does HLS better satisfy ambition than CLS ?

I don't have to spell out the inordinate success of harvard law grads. Columbia is a fine school and all, assuming you're okay with second place. If you want to win, HLS is the move. Really don't care to argue this, honestly. If i got a JS2 id withdraw from everywhere immediately, even if through some act of god I got yale and stanford.

Call it poor decision making, but that's what I'd do.

[everything_bagel]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

A hamilton would be prettty tempting. I'd probably still opt for Harvard though but that's just cause I'm ambitious. If my only goal was making $$$ then I'd obviously take the scholarship and run.

I don't think you get it. People don't take the Hamilton or Rubenstein because they want to make money, they take them because they want to avoid having hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt hanging over their heads...which is why most people feel like they have no choice but to go into biglaw to make money anyway.

I don't think this argument is worth having (you'd pick Harvard over CLS because it's "number one" but then you'd withdraw from YLS immediately?) but that had to be addressed...

[BillsFan9907]

I don't have to spell out the inordinate success of harvard law grads. Columbia is a fine school and all, assuming you're okay with second place. If you want to win, HLS is the move. Really don't care to argue this, honestly. If i got a JS2 id withdraw from everywhere immediately, even if through some act of god I got yale and stanford.

Call it poor decision making, but that's what I'd do.

Nobody is asking you to argue anything! I am just really curious as to what the core reasoning is. What do you mean by "inordinate success of HLS grads?"

[LSATneurotic]

I don't have to spell out the inordinate success of harvard law grads. Columbia is a fine school and all, assuming you're okay with second place. If you want to win, HLS is the move. Really don't care to argue this, honestly. If i got a JS2 id withdraw from everywhere immediately, even if through some act of god I got yale and stanford.

Call it poor decision making, but that's what I'd do.

Nobody is asking you to argue anything! I am just really curious as to what the core reasoning is. What do you mean by "inordinate success of HLS grads?"

supreme court justices, congressmen, law firm partners, SCOTUS clerks, the list goes on.

HLS has a huge alumni network. the size of HLS is what makes it the best choice.

[Colonel_funkadunk]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

A hamilton would be prettty tempting. I'd probably still opt for Harvard though but that's just cause I'm ambitious. If my only goal was making $$$ then I'd obviously take the scholarship and run.

Please expand! How does HLS better satisfy ambition than CLS ?

I don't have to spell out the inordinate success of harvard law grads. Columbia is a fine school and all, assuming you're okay with second place. If you want to win, HLS is the move. Really don't care to argue this, honestly. If i got a JS2 id withdraw from everywhere immediately, even if through some act of god I got yale and stanford.

Call it poor decision making, but that's what I'd do.

Do you have any friends IRL?

[LSATneurotic]

^heyyyy that was really personal.

ETA:

I don't think you get it. People don't take the Hamilton or Rubenstein because they want to make money, they take them because they want to avoid having hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt hanging over their heads...which is why most people feel like they have no choice but to go into biglaw to make money anyway.

I don't think this argument is worth having (you'd pick Harvard over CLS because it's "number one" but then you'd withdraw from YLS immediately?) but that had to be addressed...

agree with bolded.

Choosing a school really depends on your goals. As far as I am concerned, HLS is the best. I'm not saying that YLS, CLS, or SLS grads don't go on to do some pretty amazing stuff.

[smile0751]

^heyyyy that was really personal.

Hey, I'll back you. I feel the same way about Harvard. Even though I'm extremely debt adverse and wouldn't want to pay full price anywhere else...

[R. Jeeves]

For those of you for which HLS is your uncompromising first choice, what would you say to someone asking you to justify your decision over taking a Hamilton or Ruby? I've always been curious WHY people do this.

A hamilton would be prettty tempting. I'd probably still opt for Harvard though but that's just cause I'm ambitious. If my only goal was making $$$ then I'd obviously take the scholarship and run.

Please expand! How does HLS better satisfy ambition than CLS ?

I don't have to spell out the inordinate success of harvard law grads. Columbia is a fine school and all, assuming you're okay with second place. If you want to win, HLS is the move. Really don't care to argue this, honestly. If i got a JS2 id withdraw from everywhere immediately, even if through some act of god I got yale and stanford.

Call it poor decision making, but that's what I'd do.

Yeah and also I saw this documentary on USA about a law firm that only hires from HLS. Im assuming that a lot of the most prestigious firms are like this. There was one girl from Columbia Law that was allowed to work as an attorney at this firm but she had already been a paralegal there for a long time and essentially had to blackmail the managing partner into allowing her to work as an associate there despite the fact that she didnt go to H. It just goes to show how much clout an HLS degree carries compared to other schools.

[Gray]

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[R. Jeeves]

Yeah and also I saw this documentary on USA about a law firm that only hires from HLS. Im assuming that a lot of the most prestigious firms are like this. There was one girl from Columbia Law that was allowed to work as an attorney at this firm but she had already been a paralegal there for a long time and essentially had to blackmail the managing partner into allowing her to work as an associate there despite the fact that she didnt go to H. It just goes to show how much clout an HLS degree carries compared to other schools.

I think the main attorney they featured on that documentary didn't have too many friends though. Just his GF and sometimes his boss. Basically everyone else hated him because he was a self absorbed dbag.

and you do notice that quite a few people who gun exclusively for HLS turn out to be self-absorbed dbags like the attorney you are describing. One can only hope that such people pick up on cues from the people around them and make an effort to reform their behavior once they become aware of how douchey they are.

[Rigo]

Yeah and also I saw this documentary on USA about a law firm that only hires from HLS. Im assuming that a lot of the most prestigious firms are like this. There was one girl from Columbia Law that was allowed to work as an attorney at this firm but she had already been a paralegal there for a long time and essentially had to blackmail the managing partner into allowing her to work as an associate there despite the fact that she didnt go to H. It just goes to show how much clout an HLS degree carries compared to other schools.

[Gray]

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[Rigo]

Yeah and also I saw this documentary on USA about a law firm that only hires from HLS. Im assuming that a lot of the most prestigious firms are like this. There was one girl from Columbia Law that was allowed to work as an attorney at this firm but she had already been a paralegal there for a long time and essentially had to blackmail the managing partner into allowing her to work as an associate there despite the fact that she didnt go to H. It just goes to show how much clout an HLS degree carries compared to other schools.

They might have been trolling though because that Columbia associate got into S but not H and like seriously when does that ever happen.

Utterly shocking that someone with a 172 wouldn't be accepted to Harvard!

[Gray]

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