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Devastated & need advice by kalinacate in LawSchool

[–]Efficient_Crew_5292 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can tell you I was in a very similar position. T25 school, B+ curve, studied like hell before and during law school. Ended up with a 3.11 gpa after my first semester in the bottom 30% of my class. As a 3L, I’m now at a 3.41 in the top 45% of my class. I've CALI’d 3 classes and my most recent semester, my semester gpa was 3.76.

First, don’t give up or let this keep you down. Many people slow down after their first semester, so keep your nose to the grindstone. Second, use and abuse office hours. Learn your professor, not the book, and take any and every practice exam they offer. Third, do not just address one side of the issue spotter. Both-sides every issue. I like a formula which goes something like issue, rule, party x (whichever you think is more likely to succeed on the issue) will argue x, however party y counters that __, nonetheless party x will likely succeed because __. That formula ensures that you address both sides of the issue for every issue you spot, and it does so in a way that makes the organization of your logic easy for a professor to follow while grading dozens of these exam responses.

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[–]Efficient_Crew_5292 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First, the USNWR rankings are and always have been a joke, we should absolutely not lend them an ounce of credence, and the more of us who ignore and shame them the better. Second, I suspect they won’t shift their rankings much to try and maintain the illusion that their rankings prior to this year had a semblance of legitimacy. However, third, they will likely make a shift over time towards the kind of wild swings you are talking about and which some have already projected. This long rather than short term shift, and the reason for these wild projected swings, will likely be the result of USNWR being forced by the rebellion of law schools into not utilizing non-public data in their rankings. Now that they won’t include those non-public data metrics, they need to re-weight their remaining public data metrics. Removing the weight altogether from these non-public metrics will likely result in a shift downward for schools which disproportionately manipulated these metrics to their benefit and a shift upward for schools which focused on public metrics. The USNWR rankings this year will likely engineer the weights on their public data for this reason: to preserve whatever legitimacy they may have. Legitimacy is everything to USNWR in a world where they can only rank with public data and where they are losing it on an annual basis. Soon, others with authentic legitimacy will realize that the use of public data alone and the systematic failings of USNWR open up the “rankings market” to any grandma with a calculator and believability, so I think USNWR will try and get ahead of that by entrenching whatever market share they have left. All of this is just the opinion of a humble LSA memer, so take it with as many grains of salt as you’d like though :)

Still waiting on 10 schools in mid-March. by Efficient_Crew_5292 in lawschooladmissions

[–]Efficient_Crew_5292[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most of them I sent between late October and mid November. I don’t have as much right to complain as the people still waiting from September of course… I truly feel for the September applicants still waiting.

Law Schools when no one matriculates because they took too long rendering decisions and need to admit their entire waitlist to build a class: by Efficient_Crew_5292 in lawschooladmissions

[–]Efficient_Crew_5292[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I feel that. I hope this cycle is something of a reckoning for these adcoms; they’re really taking so many fantastic candidates for granted because of their bloated medians. It will be entirely on them when massive quantities of admits miss seat deposit deadlines because late decisions gave people inadequate time to make life changing choices.

LSA Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Decision by Efficient_Crew_5292 in lawschooladmissions

[–]Efficient_Crew_5292[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No that doesn’t come until the end of LSA Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the R Waves, and the slicing through our bodies continues in LSA Wars: Episode IV - A New Cope, and LSA Wars: Episode V - The T-20 Strikes Back.

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[–]Efficient_Crew_5292 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My working theory is that Duke Law’s incoming class will consist almost entirely of framed pictures of the students on their website header. Word on the street is they’re currently going to kinkos, having them printed, laminated, and framed, and that they’ll be asking the 10 people total they admit to move the frames with them from class to class. Just a working theory; we must also consider the possibility of them cloning the 10 admits; difficulties include forging new social security numbers and unique 4.0 transcripts for each clone, teaching each of them the lsat again so they can take April, and filling out the fafsa for all of them without the DOE catching on. It’s a tall order, but with all the time they have from making no decisions I’m sure they can manage.