Some interesting stuff to come across anon_law_studnent at the y and the a-hooo account. No identities will be revealed, only the operative language will be quoted:
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
Quite a bit but sending anonymous anger to an anonymous law student is not exactly a sign of a well-balanced individual either.
"[I]t appears that you attend a "good" law school...and i was wondering exactly what you did to get to this point. ie what undergrad or type of undergrad, just basically anything beyond the obvious i had a high lsat and high GPA."
Well I do indeed attend a law school that U.S. News & World Report has annoited as a top 5 institution in these United States. And since they are a crappy weekly news magazine that absolutely no one reads except for their ranking of everything in sight, I guess that's good enough. I wonder why more magazines don't just start ranking shit, those always seem to sell well. What is also curious is why institutions with a lot more legitimacy to write about higher education [Newsweek, Time, NY Times, any-fuck have given this abortion of a magazine a free pass monopoly on determining who is "in" or "out" in higher education. Don't we believe in competition in this fucking country? But I am digressing.
To answer your query more fully, this is what it takes to go to a top 5 law school [following advise is for non-"underpresented" applicants only]:
1) Get good GPA.
2) Get VERY good lsat.
That's it! I myself attended an instutution that in the undegrad U.S. News & World Report has placed very well in the past 10 years. Whether that made a difference at all, I couldn't tell you but from the experience of people around me I can tell you that having a shitty lsat would not save you even if you had a 4.0 in astrophysics from M.I.T. The problem is that law schools have to report their numbers in order to be ranked by U.S. News & World Report and therefore will do anything to make those numbers appear higher. While this might sound lamentable, it actually worked out great for me. I have no work experience, graduate degrees, academic research, or frankly interests of any kind. But I did have a high GPA from a top school and one kick-ass lsat and here I am, ready to lawyer and weasel my way through life. The point of all of this is that law school admissions are simply about having a high enough index [GPA+multiplier(lsat)] and that's it. And if anyone tells you otherwise they are either lying or are an idiot.
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Ok this one is from the comments and not e-mail but it deserves its own mention. Are you a Scientologist or something? Because I am not joining unless Jenna Elfman blows me.
posted by ALS @ 10:49 PM
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1) Get good GPA.
2) Get VERY good lsat.
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