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Originally Posted by Dave D
Are these only mid term grades? How many of them are final grades? I'm kinda surprised if they let you transfer just on mid term grades. Mid terms are graded easier than finals imo.
I've generally heard that Chicago has the toughest/meanest competition anywhere. It's gonna be hard to maintain similar grades.
Where do you go now?
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Originally Posted by Dave D
Yeah post makes a lot more sense in retrospect after the translation.
Why don't you just tell us where you go? Honestly I think that matters, especially when we start talking about geography, and where you want to be. Tier 2s can be all over the place in a lot of ways.
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That, plus he's actually said it explicitly earlier in this thread when he was deciding which school to go to. But I won't repeat it in case he went back and edited it and wants to cover his location or something, I'll let him answer.
I'd rather not post my school publicly, but it's not a top tier2. However, it's not awful either.
Yeah, I'm really worried about giving up my rank at my current school. I decided NOT to do Chicago ED. I found out my class rank, and I am top 5 % as expected. As long as I stay within the top 10 % after 2nd semester, I have a great shot at all of the T6. I will be applying GULC EA, cause it's a school I'm interested in (interested in practicing in DC), and... well... what do I have to lose by applying? It's not like my numbers will get better for regular decision or anything.
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Originally Posted by MrOnizuka
Karak,
One thing you might want to consider is when you find out about if you got in if you apply to transfer normally. A bunch of the transfers this year at Columbia have said that they didn't find out until like mid-July and then had barely a week to accept, work out all the details, and ship on out to do OCI interviews in early August. I don't know if all the acceptances get sent out that late though, it might have just been because they apparently doubled the transfer class size this past year cause they need the monies and made a late decision to do so.
I know you said you're not too keen on BigLaw, but if you want to take a look for a summer and keep the door open, I haven't met a single transfer that didn't get a BigLaw summer position, while I think the a good 40-45% of the "normal" class here got stiffed. Be prepared to get some "dirty transfers stealing all our jobs" looks though haha.
That's pretty good news if I decide to transfer. I think I'd only transfer to Chicago or higher. Columbia would be a good target if I do decide to transfer. It's not like my grades don't matter. I still would have finished (assuming, and this is a big assumption, a repeat performance) top 5 % and that has to count for something, even at another school's OCI.
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Originally Posted by Dave D
Yeah I thought I remmeber him saying it too but I don't feel like digging through the thread. Also I thought I remember politics in PA. If that's the case, maybe Georgetown makes sense, but I don't think Chicago does. I just don't think it gets you anywhere extra, especially if your law school is in PA or the general area.
Honestly too law school is only 3 years, you'd already be done with one before you went somewhere. I think people have already largely made their connections/friends first year, and it might be kinda hard to break in as a transfer. Of course it's possible, but it's gonna be an up hill battle.
Also I don't know what your money situation is gonna be at the end of this year scholarship wise, but if you don't wanna do biglaw you kinda want to minimize your loan debt. If a place like GULC doesn't give you anything, but your current school does, that's gonna matter a lot imo and would be a reason to stay.
The social aspect is a concern, but I don't think I'd let it be more than a tiebreaker in my decision. I've come to two schools now with 0 people I know (both undergrad and LS), and I make friends quickly.
I don't expect any T14 schools would offer $$ on a transfer. I would hope my current school would offer to bump my scholly, but if they don't I'm looking at incurring 40-50k more debt TOTAL by moving to a top 6. That makes it a closer decision IMO.
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Originally Posted by TheGaussBeast
two things. first you have to make it clear your not leveraging your decision to change schools into a better grade on the test. make it clear those are separate issues to the man.
second, make a value judgement about him as a person. all law school profs look like gods to the student. but they arent. some of my professors were good people, but one of them i discovered was a malicious twit, bright thou he was. if you want help from him with your career great, but make a judgement, do not assume he is a stand up guy.
i got an A, so my grade can't go higher. I am going to meet with him tomorrow and try to clarify what I was doing last week.