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Just got a full-tuition scholarship to Tulane Law. Is it CR?
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:29 PM Author: mega fag im from the south and want to clerk and do law review. also applied to UVA, Duke, Vandy, UF, W&L, and UT-Austin (expecting to get dingfagged or no $$$ from my list apart from W&L and UF).
is it CR to be a big fish in a small pond given my goals? or are people gonna think im retarded for going to a school outside US News' T50. don't really care where i work, but dont really wanna be locked in to Louisiana big/midlaw either.
stats: 3.6 GPA, 177 LSAT |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:38 PM Author: slowleak You should get better schools with 177. Do you want to work BigLaw forever? If yes, wait for better. If no, save everything you can and crush the dumb kids. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303139) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:40 PM Author: UhOh this. your decision should be between taking a bunch of money at UT/vandy or paying full freight for HCCN. you're not going to get much money out of D or V so might as well pay more for better schools. you're too good for tulane but i can understand the pull of a full ride. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303143) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:45 PM Author: mega fag my utmost goal is to be a scholar of jurisprudence with real world applications (read: a judge). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303171) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:47 PM Author: UhOh then go to the best school in your home state and work the shit out of the political scene. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303187) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 9:26 AM Author: ceci n'est pas un avocat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304853) |
Date: November 6th, 2024 8:32 PM Author: law discussion (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303107) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:32 PM Author: propecia mathematica you'll get in everywhere you apply (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303109) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:34 PM Author: mega fag uspo? u in biglaw now broski? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303120) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:33 PM Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;. is this flame?
i had similar stats (slightly lower gpa) and got dinged fag from everywhere except UVA (no scholly) and WUSTL (full scholly).
white goy obviously. |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:35 PM Author: mega fag not flaem im being deadass. i wanted to apply ED to WUSTL but they reduced their scholarship apparently (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303125) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:35 PM Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;. t6 or bust (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303127) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:36 PM Author: mega fag im really debt averse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303132) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:37 PM Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;. don't go to LS
what are your other options? |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:42 PM Author: mega fag i make around $60k as a millwright apprentice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303150) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 6:52 AM Author: borders (retired) Do you even know what a millwright is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304486) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 9:07 AM Author: mega fag wdym? im an apprentice. all we do is dismantle and put back together heavy machinery like conveyor belts in factories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304789) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:36 PM Author: Soulja Goy My buddy went there
Only cr for space and maritime law not flame
He got a gig in Austin that doesn’t seem that sweet |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:38 PM Author: mega fag austin sounds soo cr. the portability of a tulane jd knows no bounds... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303137) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 9:16 PM Author: Soulja Goy Austin might be worst town in USA ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303317) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:45 PM Author: When I grow up I want to be a pumo LSAT sounds stratospherically high for Tulane. Might be the highest in the class, and by a few points. That being said, you still have to put the work in, and you could end up getting pwned by some smart enough mega grinders (watch out for shrews and married guys).
I did something like what you're talking about and had one of the highest LSAT's in my class at a good but not great law school. I had no ambitions of going to biglaw, just wanted to start a shitlaw empire. Which is good because some of my classmates with lower LSAT scores worked like madmen and women (top grades, law review, moot court, etc.) for a chance at biglaw. My greater intellectual horsepower by itself didn't get me much.
I am a huge fan of the big fish in a small pond philosophy, and it has brought me much success and wealth in life. But the challenge is that if you want to go the clerk/Biglaw route, you're not really in a small pond because you're competing against top students from across the country. If you want to go to Tulane, be prepared to embrace it and dive into Nola's version of Biglaw. Not that you have to, but you may find that it's a more natural path than trying to do a prestigious clerkship and then go to NYC biglaw. |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 8:59 PM Author: mega fag a lot of what you said rings true in my case. i went to a decent ug and a lot of my peers ran rings around me when it came to having a better work ethic or just being downright smarter.
sometimes, i wonder what life would've been like had i decided to go to bama for ug on a free ride instead of chasing prestige flame. i'm heavily leaning towards putting a deposit down right now. |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 9:04 PM Author: When I grow up I want to be a pumo For me, clerkship->biglaw was empty prestige flame. Shitlaw has been incredible and I've been lucky enough to make multiples of what I would make based on my "class year" or whatever the fuck in biglaw. But that's just me. There are reasons most lawyers don't do what I do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303264) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 9:07 PM Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;. What kind of shit law do you do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48303284) |
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Date: November 6th, 2024 9:14 PM Author: When I grow up I want to be a pumo Redneck real estate disputes in a rural Southern region. These people will come up with cash to fight their cousin or neighbor and prove that they own some ten acre piece of land. And they get into these disagreements with great regularity. Almost no lawyers want to touch these cases, and I am drowning in work. I've hired several associates and am on my way to having a literal lower middle market company within the next couple of years if I continue on this trajectory (which is anything but guaranteed).
It has been a boot camp in tons of different real estate issues, and it has led to me being a real estate investor myself. My holdings have expanded fast over the last couple of years as I've been able to use my legal experience to find some great opportunities. Maybe it continues, maybe it doesn't, but the last few years have been incredible. |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 6:49 AM Author: mega fag fascinating. this is something i'd like to do if my judge aspirations don't pan out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304476) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 9:33 AM Author: law discussion This sounds 180. How did you get started in this practice area? I’m surrounded by rural rednecks and live on a law farm. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304887) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 9:51 AM Author: When I grow up I want to be a pumo I opened up shop and these cases flooded in. Most of the local lawyers scorned these people and wanted nothing to do with them. I recognized that this was a great opportunity and that the conventional wisdom was wrong, as it so often is. I jumped on it and things have steadily grown from there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304971) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 9:37 AM Author: Charles Tyrwhitt Dad I went elite HYP ug to a t14 just barely outside the t6. Which is solid credentials for the elite metro areas.
20 years later most of my classmates are plodding along at decent GC roles if they're still lawyers, with 400-600k HHIs but in HCOLs meaning a nice life but not necessarily the big fish in a small pond outcome. You'd just call them solid UMC people. Places like DC and NY and Boston are packed to the gills with people from elite UGs/grad schools having... normal UMC lives. The top 10% from those schools, however, are definitely, unquestionably, in the elite. But would you be in that top 10% or would you just drift into the solidly UMC outcome with an overpriced $1.2M shitbox outside DC or Boston or in Westchester? Which isn't really different from going to a regional law school and ending up in a nice suburb of Austin or Kansas City or NOLA except that you'd probably have a nicer house.
Meanwhile I work for a F200 and our leadership comes from all over the place. Shit undergrads into C-level suites is more common than you'd think. Much more common. The difference is the drive. Some people do well regardless of where they come from, they have the aptitude to make it happen and plenty of elite T6 grads languish at nonprofits or flame out of law entirely.
Also don't underestimate the advantages of graduating debt free. Debt isn't to be feared, far from it, but you need to have a serious plan for that debt and where it will take you.
What do you want out of life? What do you really want? Not the fantasy but the deep inside realistic expectations? Would you be happy with regional law and midtier markets? Shitlaw? Living the nice UMC life in Atlanta or Dallas? Becoming a corporate GC? Making deals? Or till figuring it out? |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 6:49 AM Author: Swashbuckling Yarmulke-laden Shitlib ISO Poontang They were passing those out like candy 20 years ago (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304480) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 6:53 AM Author: Slow Children Playing Classes will be filled with people life valen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304488) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 9:39 AM Author: Cornel West man this thread really reminded me how much I fucking hate lawyers and think you all need to die. feels like 2009 again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304927) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 9:53 AM Author: Judas Jones Soo cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5629102&forum_id=2#48304978) |
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Date: November 7th, 2024 9:54 AM Author: ceci n'est pas un avocat A JD opens many doors etc etc
Check the fine print carefully and see what the terms of the scholarship are. You don't want them to have the right to pull the rug on you if you have a bad semester |