Date: June 7th, 2006 11:03 PM Author: Exciting pale alpha
This board is a source of shitty information. I think it comes down to the fact that this board is EXTREMELY east coast biased. But yet, the consensus of this board is that Boalt is a horrible TTT. Ridiculous.
Date: June 11th, 2006 12:29 AM Author: hairraiser mahogany heaven pisswyrm
I'll be attending H and I have lots of respect for Boalt. I would certainly rank it in the top 10.
Many on this board who trash Boalt are simply angry at being dinged. Others are probably just trolling.
In any case, I would agree that one would be foolish to base decisions on some message board; particularly one where "nigger" is on the subject line of so many posts.
Date: June 11th, 2006 1:31 AM Author: hairraiser mahogany heaven pisswyrm
WRONG.
For the July 2005 California Bar, Boalt had a higher passage rate than Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Virginia, Penn, NYU, Duke, Georgetown, Cornell, Northwestern, and of course, Hastings.
Date: June 11th, 2006 1:05 AM Author: hairraiser mahogany heaven pisswyrm
The sad thing is that I really feel like I would have thrived at Boalt and that my interest in IP would have been nurtured. The IP professors I met were down to earth even though they were regarded as being among the best in the business.
H really doesn't have a very good IP program, but I gave in to laymen's prestige.
Date: June 11th, 2006 1:42 AM Author: hairraiser mahogany heaven pisswyrm
Actually, Boalt is generally regarded as having the best IP program in the country (and not just by USNEWS).
Also, I take issue with H being a distant second to Yale. Look at the number of HLS grads we've had on SCOTUS. Also, H is viewed by the international community as the best law school IN THE WORLD.
HLS has more of a WOW factor in the US and internationally than YLS (with the exception of the types of people who post on XOXOTH and LSD). There's no question about that.
Date: June 11th, 2006 2:09 AM Author: hairraiser mahogany heaven pisswyrm
Hint: Executives in Asia and Europe don't base their decisions on US News Rankings. Internationally, there's a prestige gap between H and Y. And yes, H comes out on top.
Date: June 11th, 2006 2:28 AM Author: hairraiser mahogany heaven pisswyrm
No. This isn't total speculation. I've done extensive travel around Asia, and from my experience talking with students trying to get into US programs, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley are more highly regarded than Yale. Actually, lots of people in Asia don't even know about Yale. But nearly EVERYONE knows about Harvard.
Date: June 11th, 2006 1:44 AM Author: Domesticated irradiated trailer park
well, when you crank out massive #s every year, you're bound to have a few smart ones in the sample. of course, you may also find that an embarassingly large # of those kids can't even pass the bar in our wealthiest and most populous state...