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GregNorc posted:If said person went and did a master's at a fancy name brand uni, and pulled a 4.0 in said master's, would that be looked at rather than undergrad GPA institution? no.
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Yeah LSAC only computes your undergraduate, not graduate, GPA.
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GregNorc posted:Let's say, hypotheitically, someone has a not so great GPA (3.2ish) from a lower ranked (in the 30s) school. The rank of your undergrad is irrelevant regardless of whether you went to grad school. But, no, the schools don't get to report your master's GPA, so they don't care that it's a 4.0.
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GregNorc posted:Let's say, hypotheitically, someone has a not so great GPA (3.2ish) from a lower ranked (in the 30s) school. Said person should go get a Masters in Accounting at a fancy school, get a job with one of the Big 4 accounting firms, and live happily ever after with soul crushing hours.
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Tetrix posted:Said person should go get a Masters in Accounting at a fancy school, get a job with one of the Big 4 accounting firms, and live happily ever after with soul crushing hours. Accounting schools use LSAT?
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GregNorc posted:Accounting schools use LSAT? His point was that the hypothetical person should not go to law school.
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GregNorc posted:Accounting schools use LSAT? I remember the last time you attempted to convince the thread you wanted to go to law school.
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Go or don't, make up your mind, stop teasing us with this rollercoaster (it's a bad rollercoaster)
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living large and still drinking heavily in Cambridge; for those thinking of going: it is not as bad as they say it will be. i loving freaked out and banned myself numerous times and studied for the LSAT like a maniac for this stuff. sure, you should probably do all of that. i guess. i don't know. just don't become a total spazz like me and worry about the whole admissions process so much. if you have the numbers, you will get it. i am 6 weeks in of my 1L year, and people here really aren't as intelligent as i imagined them to be, based on this thread. everyone is much more normal. sure, they are perpetual high-achievers, but a cool slacker like me can get in too! and, no matter what people in this thread say, there are most certainly jobs for us 99th percentile types. i'll take questions for like 20 minutes, but honestly i am already bored with this post.
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:living large and still drinking heavily in Cambridge; for those thinking of going: it is not as bad as they say it will be. [...] Yeah, people at HLS are not as smart as commonly perceived if any of them think their opinion on the job market 6 weeks into 1L is worth poo poo. Agreed.
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GregNorc posted:Let's say, hypotheitically, someone has a not so great GPA (3.2ish) from a lower ranked (in the 30s) school. Why would you go to all of that effort and spend all that money to go to law school?
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Izzy! You're back! Kill any poor people lately?
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ragle posted:Yeah, people at HLS are not as smart as commonly perceived if any of them think their opinion on the job market 6 weeks into 1L is worth poo poo. Agreed. I was not intending to claim first-hand knowledge of the job market. I was simply asserting that those of us fortunate enough to attend a top school may not, based on my 6 weeks here, have to worry about the doom and gloom purported in this thread. Of course, I won't go through any of the 1L hiring hurricane for a few months, but I was just relying on the testimony of older students here....
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Save me jeebus posted:Izzy! You're back! Kill any poor people lately? (And let's not pretend like this is not a good thing)
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:No need. They are all economically relegated to the further reaches of town. Boston is a lovely, cramped New York City with more white people, worse drivers, and lovely mass transportation. Cambridge is like Brooklyn - gentrified as gently caress and annoying to get to. Boston ain't poo poo. Go Yankees.
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The Warszawa posted:Boston is a lovely, cramped New York City with more white people, worse drivers, and lovely mass transportation. Cambridge is like Brooklyn - gentrified as gently caress and annoying to get to. My family has been in Brooklyn since 1846. Boston is like my arch-nemesis. Nevertheless, Columbia is no Harvard, and I wanna make the big bucks! (My grandfather died last week, and I had to take the train down to Brooklyn for the proceedings. It was a terrible trip, by every account. I wish I was still in NYC.)
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Clerkship with Federal Magistrate Judge. Worth it or no? How much does it pay?
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GregNorc posted:One of the MS programs I looked at is fully paid. As in, free tuition + stipend. And I possibly could get law school paid for as well if I agree to do public service (which is the only reason I'd want to go to begin with), assuming a decent LSAT score. But I "only" have a 3.2 so it would be a stretch. Why do you preface the GPA that your earned with quotes? Is there some kind of qualifier that you would like to elaborate upon? Do you have a hardship story? I ask because, for better or (most likely) worse, 3.2 is your GPA in this process. And, to be honest, it is not great.
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It's to highlight the dumb assertion that a 3.2 is bad.
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UPDATE: I accepted Latham a few hours ago. Will I be fired unceremoniously? Stay tuned!
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diospadre posted:It's to highlight the dumb assertion that a 3.2 is bad. (Save Northwestern - that bunch are such LSAT bitches. kill a man with a 171, and you're in!)
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The Warszawa posted:Boston is a lovely, cramped New York City quote:with more white people, quote:worse drivers, quote:and lovely mass transportation. yes quote:Boston ain't poo poo. Go Yankees.
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:Many a good man has been shut out of the T10 with a 3.2 and a 170. It is hardly a matter of flippancy, particularly coming from the applicant himself. Perhaps he should own his low GPA, rather than try to quote it away. Wait, unrelated question: didn't HLS completely go Abbott and Costello on its grading policy? No grades! H/P/LP/F with GPA values! Published GPA values! Unpublished GPA values! Yeah, the story has been kind of bizarre.
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The Warszawa posted:Wait, unrelated question: didn't HLS completely go Abbott and Costello on its grading policy? No grades! H/P/LP/F with GPA values! Published GPA values! Unpublished GPA values!
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:How is any of that "Abbott and Costello"? I did the "who's on first" play when I was 9, and I just don't see it. Maybe Laurel and Hardy would be a better comparison.
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mrtoodles posted:Clerkship with Federal Magistrate Judge. Worth it or no? How much does it pay? Is it in the town/ city/ district you want to practice in?
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The Warszawa posted:Maybe Laurel and Hardy would be a better comparison. 
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:I was not intending to claim first-hand knowledge of the job market. I was simply asserting that those of us fortunate enough to attend a top school may not, based on my 6 weeks here, have to worry about the doom and gloom purported in this thread. Below-median (all P's) 2L here. Spent the better part of the summer going over career books, doing informational interviews, researching firms and otherwise preparing for EIP. Spent my Flyout Week on here and 5 Second Films. Good luck.
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Vander posted:Is it in the town/ city/ district you want to practice in? Yes. I guess when I ask "is it worth it" I mean, is it worth it in terms of long-term career stuff to go clerk with a Federal Magistrate rather than going straight into biglaw?
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This post should probably be added to the OP of the next iteration of this thread: Imagine that you are 17 in 1986, blasting across the wastelands of North Jersey in your parents' Ford Taurus to see your girl, cigarette in your mouth, whiskey in the side pocket of your Levi jean jacket, and you have this song cranked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy4yXNWWruI Now, forget all of that.
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Izztfansratln takes it in the rear end from Napoleon
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Izztfansratln takes it in the rear end from Napoleon If you wanna go to law school, you should. But if you wanna kill yourself and wanna die, then you probably should not! In other words, law school is not the answer to existential questions. You just end up drinking more and doing more drugs and trying to forget how cool you once were before doing this! email me if you wanna discuss the process of self-destruction through law school further: izzyfnstradlin@yahoo.com Edit: also, listen to this song 
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The Warszawa posted:Boston is a lovely, cramped New York City with more white people, worse drivers, and lovely mass transportation. Cambridge is like Brooklyn - gentrified as gently caress and annoying to get to. stab me in my beating heart, southern brother
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:No seriously, though.... goddamn you're dumb
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The Warszawa posted:Wait, unrelated question: didn't HLS completely go Abbott and Costello on its grading policy? No grades! H/P/LP/F with GPA values! Published GPA values! Unpublished GPA values! Martha Minow is really bad at her job. I miss Kagan.
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So did Prussia
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ewr2870 posted:Martha Minow is really bad at her job. I miss Kagan. bad how? she's related to a friend of mine so maybe I can tell her to tell her to shape up
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Petey posted:stab me in my beating heart, southern brother I would but the loving T is late again. Edit: Fun fact - my torts professor had Chris Coons as a student "and didn't realize he was running in Delaware until that...nice lady won the Republican primary." The Warszawa fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Oct 16, 2010 |
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