How high can I realistically reach? Forum

[180orRetake]

LMAO.... congrats on racking up over 1,000 forum posts since June. Must have been a summer full of friends and love.

Thanks, your mom was really proud.

....... my mother was proud that you spent your summer posting in forums? uhh....okay?

[smaug]

You seem kind of upset.

Lawyers should be more chill about this stuff.

I suggest that you do not go to law school.

Being a lawyer is, perhaps (outside of being a cop, judge or politician) one of the few professions where your hotheadedness can go without punishment.

Please, tell me more.

[180orRetake]

You seem kind of upset.

Lawyers should be more chill about this stuff.

I suggest that you do not go to law school.

Being a lawyer is, perhaps (outside of being a cop, judge or politician) one of the few professions where your hotheadedness can go without punishment.

careful, man! these avatars on here stick together. there's no deeper bond than that which is shared by individuals living their entire social life through an online persona.

[smaug]

Why do you keep calling me an avatar, 180orRetake?

Is it an insult?

[180orRetake]

Why do you keep calling me an avatar, 180orRetake?

Is it an insult?

no. it's honestly just a statement of fact (albeit a depressing one) regarding the nature of your existence.

[anyriotgirl]

Are we talking avatar the last air bender or James Cameron avatar

[benwyatt]

LMAO.... congrats on racking up over 1,000 forum posts since June. Must have been a summer full of friends and love.

Thanks, your mom was really proud.

....... my mother was proud that you spent your summer posting in forums? uhh....okay?

[180orRetake]

LMAO.... congrats on racking up over 1,000 forum posts since June. Must have been a summer full of friends and love.

Thanks, your mom was really proud.

how would that even qualify as a joke? there is absolutely no innuendo or other way in which a "your mom" joke could possibly be considered funny here.

the underlying conclusion was that you've spent your entire summer posting in a forum.....your response was that my mom would be proud..

lmao yeah bro, that shit must have totally flew over my head.

[hairbear7]

Anyone who bumps this thread is a loser

[180orRetake]

bump

[lymenheimer]

I recently had an interesting encounter with a "your mom" "joke". A guy almost drove me and my friends over as we were walking through a crosswalk (we had the right of way) and I said, "Asshole!" This big black man, with his posse in the car came back with "your mom".

[A. Nony Mouse]

not only was this advice unwanted, but it was entirely illegitimate. i intentionally did not provide sufficient information for a stranger to give me a fucking career management assessment lmao.

The problem is that career management assessment (or what I think you mean by that) is exactly what people who are considering law school should be doing. Chances of getting into any particular schools are irrelevant without also considering whether those schools fit the applicant's specific goals. You can get into Cooley, but that doesn't matter because you wouldn't ever want to go there. In fact, now that mysln.info is around, we probably shouldn't even have a chances forum, because there's very little that individuals can add besides the statistics out there - either you fit the statistics a school is looking for, which is great, or you don't, in which case whether you get in is going to depend on a whole host of unpredictable factors that anecdotal evidence on an online forum can't tell you much about. (The chances forum was created before mylsn.info was around.)

In any case, the general wisdom seems to suggest that if you're at or above both 75th percentiles you're probably good, if you're at or below both 25th percentiles you're probably not, in between will be difficult to predict, and you're just going to have to apply and see what happens.

General wisdom also suggests there isn't any point in posting a chances thread until you actually have an LSAT score to use in assessing those chances. Take the exam and then see where you stand; reverse engineering ("I want to go to X school, so I need Y score") is sort of pointless - you want to get the highest score you're capable of getting.

and you know none of this because it is immaterial to the question i've asked. again, you are a random 5,000 post avatar on an online forum. your career advice is of no interest to me - again, unless you have anecdotal insight into the law school admissions question that i've asked, then your entire existence is irrelevant as far as i am concerned. just sayin'.

I always feel bad for people for whom reading/writing is so difficult that they think making 1000-5000 posts online is actually hard, and seem to think that drawing attention to someone's post count says anything meaningful about that person's life.

[basedvulpes]

not only was this advice unwanted, but it was entirely illegitimate. i intentionally did not provide sufficient information for a stranger to give me a fucking career management assessment lmao.

The problem is that career management assessment (or what I think you mean by that) is exactly what people who are considering law school should be doing. Chances of getting into any particular schools are irrelevant without also considering whether those schools fit the applicant's specific goals. You can get into Cooley, but that doesn't matter because you wouldn't ever want to go there. In fact, now that mysln.info is around, we probably shouldn't even have a chances forum, because there's very little that individuals can add besides the statistics out there - either you fit the statistics a school is looking for, which is great, or you don't, in which case whether you get in is going to depend on a whole host of unpredictable factors that anecdotal evidence on an online forum can't tell you much about. (The chances forum was created before mylsn.info was around.)

Has there ever been any serious thought given to getting rid of the Chances forum? It seems to just cause the type of fights that everyone points to when they accuse TLS of being elitist. I'm not sure it actually contributes anything substantive, at least that couldn't be accomplished in another forum.

[anyriotgirl]

If they got rid of it, people would just shit up other forums with chances threads. Better to corral them all in one place

[180orRetake]

not only was this advice unwanted, but it was entirely illegitimate. i intentionally did not provide sufficient information for a stranger to give me a fucking career management assessment lmao.

The problem is that career management assessment (or what I think you mean by that) is exactly what people who are considering law school should be doing. Chances of getting into any particular schools are irrelevant without also considering whether those schools fit the applicant's specific goals. You can get into Cooley, but that doesn't matter because you wouldn't ever want to go there. In fact, now that mysln.info is around, we probably shouldn't even have a chances forum, because there's very little that individuals can add besides the statistics out there - either you fit the statistics a school is looking for, which is great, or you don't, in which case whether you get in is going to depend on a whole host of unpredictable factors that anecdotal evidence on an online forum can't tell you much about. (The chances forum was created before mylsn.info was around.)

In any case, the general wisdom seems to suggest that if you're at or above both 75th percentiles you're probably good, if you're at or below both 25th percentiles you're probably not, in between will be difficult to predict, and you're just going to have to apply and see what happens.

General wisdom also suggests there isn't any point in posting a chances thread until you actually have an LSAT score to use in assessing those chances. Take the exam and then see where you stand; reverse engineering ("I want to go to X school, so I need Y score") is sort of pointless - you want to get the highest score you're capable of getting.

and you know none of this because it is immaterial to the question i've asked. again, you are a random 5,000 post avatar on an online forum. your career advice is of no interest to me - again, unless you have anecdotal insight into the law school admissions question that i've asked, then your entire existence is irrelevant as far as i am concerned. just sayin'.

I always feel bad for people for whom reading/writing is so difficult that they think making 1000-5000 posts online is actually hard, and seem to think that drawing attention to someone's post count says anything meaningful about that person's life.

Lets gooo!!! Game time, bitches.

1) You, like the other morons here, are still presuming that I have not/will not do my own due diligence when it comes to actually CHOOSING and enrolling into a law school. See, these considerations are simply out of scope here; all I cared about was relevant anecdotes regarding these particular schools and these particular stats.

2) I took the LSAT - what is your point about "take the exam and then see"? Don't worry about the magically changing 165-166 LSAT score. One (or both) of these scores is on my official LSAC report.

3) Maybe the "chances" forum is no longer necessary. Maybe you can spearhead an initiative to get it removed. Maybe this will be your contribution to society. Until then, keep your mouth shut when someone is simply looking for CHANCES feedback in the CHANCES forum.

4) We certainly can draw some pretty meaningful conclusions about one's life based on their level of online forum engagement. Any such conclusions, of course, would certainly be fallible as I am sure there are a few outliers. But I think it is pretty much obvious that the more one is socially engaged in online forums, the less they are socially engaged in real-life.

[basedvulpes]

Lets gooo!!! Game time, bitches.

1) You, like the other morons here, are still presuming that I have not/will not do my own due diligence when it comes to actually CHOOSING and enrolling into a law school. See, these considerations are simply out of scope here; all I cared about was relevant anecdotes regarding these particular schools and these particular stats.

2) I took the LSAT - what is your point about "take the exam and then see"? Don't worry about the magically changing 165-166 LSAT score. One (or both) of these scores is on my official LSAC report.

3) Maybe the "chances" forum is no longer necessary. Maybe you can spearhead an initiative to get it removed. Maybe this will be your contribution to society. Until then, keep your mouth shut when someone is simply looking for CHANCES feedback in the CHANCES forum.

4) We certainly can draw some pretty meaningful conclusions about one's life based on their level of online forum engagement. Any such conclusions, of course, would certainly be fallible as I am sure there are a few outliers. But I think it is pretty much obvious that the more one is socially engaged in online forums, the less they are socially engaged in real-life.

http://mylsn.info/r/pre-law/admissions/search/

[A. Nony Mouse]

If they got rid of it, people would just shit up other forums with chances threads. Better to corral them all in one place

Yeah, I think this is the general idea. It would be nice to have, say, a link to MyLSN popup before anyone can post in this forum, but I'm not sure there's a way to do that.

However, there's nothing to say that this thread has to continue when the OP has received the best answer out there (check mylsn.info) and isn't at all interested in hearing helpful advice.