Thomas Jefferson School of Law c/o 2015 Forum

[Pahlawan]

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In as of 1/27!

[Pahlawan]

Anybody else? Oh man, this is discouraging.

[moneybagsphd]

Anybody else? Oh man, this is discouraging.

This is gonna be a lonely thread.

[Jaeger]

Anybody else? Oh man, this is discouraging.

This is gonna be a lonely thread.

[QuincyWagstaff]

Jelly

[LWOP]

applied

[Pahlawan]

Great, keep us updated. I should be receiving my scholarship info this upcoming week.

[Lord Randolph McDuff]

I'm not a T-14 or bust guy, and I can't even think of one set of personal/financial circumstances that would warrant attendance at this law school. If you have the numbers to get money, then go somewhere that is less of a joke, say Santa Clara, and try to network your way back to San Diego. Keep in mind, attending Santa Clara without a full or close to full scholarship is still a horrible idea. Less than a 1/4 of 2009 SCU grads found full time work in the legal field. I'm not talking about at graduation, I'm talking about nine months out.

Santa Clara is at least twice the school that Thomas Jefferson is.

For those of you who will not go into debt to attend Thomas Jefferson School of Law, I still can't imagine a set of circumstances where this is a good idea. There are other things you can do with your time/money. Even if you were a millionaire, wanted to be a lawyer in San Diego, the answer has to be retake and get into USD (not that hard to do, buy a powerscore book and find some work ethic..) The reputation of Thomas Jefferson is very bad, so bad that the three years you spend there will literally be a black mark upon you in the legal world, even though you did in fact go to "law school."

But please, if you can defend your decision to attend I'm sure myself and others on this board would love to talk about it. If you can do it I will humbly admit I'm wrong. I just don't see how there isn't a better life option even for the full scholarship recipients.

[Pahlawan]

But even if you went to a higher ranked school, you'd take the risk of incurring more debt assuming the higher rank school does not award scholarship money like TJSL.

I think if I'm awarded 50%+ from TJSL, it's reasonable for me to attend, no?

[noleknight16]

I think if I'm awarded 50%+ from TJSL, it's reasonable for me to attend, no?

No.

[Lord Randolph McDuff]

No man. You couldn't pay me to go to this school because of the stain it would make on my resume. The only way to be successful from this school is to have the talent and drive to do well in the private sector on your own, and frankly people who go to this school don't have that talent and drive.

Not saying they aren't relatively talented or driven, but not near the levels it would take to make money to pay back your loans from opening up your own shingle out of law school.

[Danteshek]

This is probably the single worst law school in the USA if not the world.

[Kikero]

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[bernaldiaz]

This thread makes me sad

[thecactus]

Some people need to read the sticky at the top of this forum.

[Lord Randolph McDuff]

I read the sticky. If there was a sign that said "don't spend thirty seconds to potentially save someones life," I would say fuck that sign.

[pret]

But please, if you can defend your decision to attend I'm sure myself and others on this board would love to talk about it. If you can do it I will humbly admit I'm wrong. I just don't see how there isn't a better life option even for the full scholarship recipients.

What if one were to have a job lined up after graduation?

[Tom Joad]

I know a really smart, outgoing girl who is a 1L at TJSL. Every week she posts new pics of her partying on the beach. If only she found TLS in time.

At least her family is loaded.

[handsonthewheel]

But please, if you can defend your decision to attend I'm sure myself and others on this board would love to talk about it. If you can do it I will humbly admit I'm wrong. I just don't see how there isn't a better life option even for the full scholarship recipients.

What if one were to have a job lined up after graduation?

Then either someone's faith in you is misplaced or you need to go back and retake the LSAT with some serious preparation.

I'm not usually one to talk down at schools but TJSL is really not a good choice. Read into the lawsuit and possibly check out this link: http://cache.abovethelaw.com/uploads/20 ... 2.jpeg.png

That's a pretty rough bar passage rate. Maybe that isn't the individual student and just the nature of a less selective school, but something is clearly going wrong.

[Pahlawan]

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Would you mind PMing me if the response was of substance?

[Kikero]

Edit: Removed after reading forum rules.

Would you mind PMing me if the response was of substance?

It wasn't, that's why I removed it. I just posted a screenshot of the TJSL website where they claimed to have the #13 highest ranked website of law schools. I found it humorous. I don't know anything about the school personally, sorry.

[bjsesq]

You've made your point, leave the kid alone.

[Pahlawan]

They were supposed to mail out scholarship info this week. Anyone receive anything?

[LWOP]

30K scholarship and an offer to be a Crim law Fellow....

[t14fanboy]

Why did this school have to pick TJ's name.