hi guys,iam an accounting major,I'll most likely graduate by next year. iam just wondering, is it possible to work a 9-5 job and still be able to go to law school nighttime. I knowi won't have a life. but I may be able to sacrifice it. also how hard is it to get into a decent law school. I have a 3.0 overall gpa and a 3.8 gpa in my major gpa. or do gpas go out the window and its only lsats that matter. any input would be appreciated,thx

Very few law schools offer part-time programs AFAIK.

Temple, Uconn, Georgetown, GW all offer fine part time programs.

But like he said, very few do, so do your research.

Have a torts midterm coming up. In going over the prof's past midterms, I see that he has a 300 word limit to answer some rather complicated hypotheticals. I'm not even sure how it's possible to answer in a 300 word limit.

Just cut the fat dude.

"The issue in this case is"

to

"Issue:"

do that for the R, A, and C and you saved 20 words!

yes

good deal. gonna spend $80 on something more enjoyable than a yale rejection, then

Way to save $80 on law school! Now it will only cost $199,920!

I have a question regarding letters of recommendation. I know they aren't that important, but I'm having a hard time selecting which two I should pick out of several. I have been graduated from grad school for about 3 years now and have been teaching Econ at a small private school. My main choices are:

1) The business school Dean where I teach. We have an ok relationship, but probably only talk maybe every 2 weeks or so. He is my "boss" at my current job

2) The adult education school Dean where I teach. His office is across the hall from mine. We talk every day and have a relatively close relationship. He is my "boss" in a relative sense as I teach some continuing education classes.

3) The Econ dept head from the school I graduated from. While I was in school we never talked much outside of my occasional trip to his office for help on a project. I never felt like he was that big of a fan of mine, but he called me 2 summers ago after he had heard that I was teaching across town to offer me a full time teaching position at the school. I declined because the salary was less than my current salary.

4) My thesis advisor from grad school. Obviously spent tons of time talking with this person regarding my thesis. My only concerns with choosing him is that he is extremely foreign and probably pushing 70. Maybe I am making a bad stereotype here, but it makes me hesitant.

Anyways, which two(three) would you select?

1 > 2 > 4 > 3

heh, nh. I guess I'll take whatever I can get though

edit: fwiw it's also a matter of being lazy and not wanting to write the extra Yale essay if I have no shot at getting in anyway

http://lawschoolnumbers.com/mmmmm (Accepted Yale, Rejected Stanford)

http://lawschoolnumbers.com/bgc (Accepted Yale, Rejected Stanford)

http://lawschoolnumbers.com/MKP (Accepted Yale, Waitlisted Harvard, Rejected Stanford)


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haha, i just cost you $80

maybe i've got a shot, who knows. btw, didn't mention this earlier because it was on the heels of all the bs flame war about my second LSAT, and it would have seemed petty/stupid/vindictive etc to drop it at the time, but

i got a 179 on the june LSAT

(tldr version)
it turns out the score was never actually canceled at all. i did complain about the test center because the conditions were abysmal. they eventually got back to me saying that yes they investigated the complaint and it was legit. for whatever reason the way i (mistakenly) interpreted what they wrote back to me was that due to my complaint being accepted they would just auto-cancel the score and sign me up for the next test free of charge. but it actually was just an offer. since i didn't respond to the offer with an affirmative by the deadline (which i assume was a little while before scores were released), i was actually locked into keeping the score all along despite having no idea about it. the score was just on an extended hold rather than being canceled.

anyway my buddy was looking at his score and the questions etc when the scores came out, and i looked at the questions with him also, even though i had "canceled" i was trying to remember what i had put etc. came up with about ~177 i would have gotten, but it turns out indeed i was off by a couple points. a few days later i get an email from LSAC saying my LSAT score was ready. initial reaction at getting the email obviously was wtf, but then i check the score and it's even better than i had hoped/thought


cliffs: despite my whining about my june LSAT "cancel," the score was never actually canceled and i got a really good score

congrats on the fantastic score. unless your gpa sucks I have to imagine you have at least a shot at yale.

Good score man. I'd just take $80 regardless and treat myself to something.

Made the highest score in my class on our first legal writing assignment this week, made a perfect score on the last one as well. People are way over-thinking this stuff. That is not me being a dick though, it's geared towards us as if we were absolute morons.

Why don't think you can get into Yale with a 179?

looooooooooool

i dunno, i guess i must have a non-negligible chance (despite having a GPA that's low by yale standards and a resume that's pretty blank by yale standards), it's just i also think i'd take harvard and stanford both over it (which is why i asked the initial question above). i also really like berkeley and ucla. from the beginning of this i figured my top goal was a full ride at ucla, maybe it's different now. if my applications go well enough, it might end up being not smart for me to go ucla even if i do get a full ride there. hard to say at this point. i think i've been convinced in any case to at least send an application to yale and see what comes

for some reason it bothers me that you d are worried about the $80 goddamn dollars it takes to apply. dude, the money it costs to apply is so incredibly negligible compared to what school you are going to go to. I mean, if you decide where you want to go before you apply, there is no need to just throw away $80, but if you want to go to Yale and there is like a 2% chance that you get in (which there obv is), you should apply. I don't mean to be rude or direct this at you, I've just seen this phenomenon a lot. It is like when people are buying houses and they say "well, i didn't like the fixtures...."

hes a douche- he has always 100% intended to apply to yale

but now we know he got a 179, via his "dilemma"

i'm sorry you feel that way, but i'm not really inclined to take the bait and keep waging internet warz

cheers

in this economy, depending on your ultimate goals, turning down a free ride to a top 10 for a HYS might not be the best thing to do. i mean, unless your goal is CoA clerk and SCOTUS or law school prof down the line.

what is it you want to do?

i made this joke earlier, but there is such a disconnect with things like this that its funny. I mean, I sit there debating whether or not to order my textbook from the guy with 0 feedback on half vs. the bookstore because I'll save $6 when I'm six figures in debt.

The past six months I've already begun the dangerous game of "figure out how many minutes/hours of work it will take to pay for this once i start at firm."

lol GOD. this is why I am glad my job is not going to involve billing hours. I had never heard of keeping track of what you are doing "every 6 minutes" or whatever until the other day. I would be such a giant failure at that.