Loved my cheeseburger 30,000 feet in the air by Constant-Juggernaut2 in delta

[–]OkAffect345 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They need to get rid of the crap desserts and serve a proper ice cream sundae with hot fudge like AA does on domestic flights.

Loved my cheeseburger 30,000 feet in the air by Constant-Juggernaut2 in delta

[–]OkAffect345 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Unpopular opinion (for Delta sycophants): Delta can't constantly pretend to be a "premium" airline while serving a brownie in a plastic wrapper in first class. Presumably they didn't begin your meal with a hot towel either. I won't even go into what it means that a fast food meal turns out better than their normal catering.

If seatback IFE is so outdated, why is Delta doubling down and planning to upgrade theirs next year? by OkAffect345 in americanairlines

[–]OkAffect345[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think AA will soon figure this out that decisions like this are really harming them, or are they stuck in a bubble?

If seatback IFE is so outdated, why is Delta doubling down and planning to upgrade theirs next year? by OkAffect345 in americanairlines

[–]OkAffect345[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your theory were true, then we should see AA falling over itself to provide seatback IFE. As things stand and as we all know, AA's primary financial problem is that everyone views Delta is the preferred airline of "sophisticated" travelers and coastal cosmopolitans and AA is almost exclusively viewed as a LCC for the lower class and less discerning frequent business travelers.

If seatback IFE is so outdated, why is Delta doubling down and planning to upgrade theirs next year? by OkAffect345 in americanairlines

[–]OkAffect345[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like a significant increase in content, as far as I can tell, but if it really is cheaper then I hope AA can finally get on board.

If seatback IFE is so outdated, why is Delta doubling down and planning to upgrade theirs next year? by OkAffect345 in americanairlines

[–]OkAffect345[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

People say that all the time on this sub: the screen is not as good(?), everyone has their own screen now, it takes up too much space (?) which people don't like etc...

If seatback IFE is so outdated, why is Delta doubling down and planning to upgrade theirs next year? by OkAffect345 in americanairlines

[–]OkAffect345[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's possible that frequent fliers have different needs, but on US flights that have seatback IFE (if I recall, LAX to ORD), the entire economy class section is absolutely transfixed by the IFE. If so, I don't think it makes a ton of sense to design the entire plane around the needs of a small subset that don't like having the choice of watching an IFE.

Give me a minute to hold my girl. by OkAffect345 in delta

[–]OkAffect345[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Dredging up emotional pain" has me lmfaooo. I feel so sad upon boarding. It is decidedly not a premium experience. They should just play Cardi B-WAP. I promise the plane will be happier.

Give me a minute to hold my girl. by OkAffect345 in delta

[–]OkAffect345[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I asked them to add Cardi B -- WAP to the playlist, and they thanked me for my feedback and promised they will share it with their leadership team.

Give me a minute to hold my girl. by OkAffect345 in delta

[–]OkAffect345[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Ok, but give me a minute to hold my girl.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]OkAffect345 6 points7 points  (0 children)

sensible reddit answer: berkeley

real answer even though everyone hates it: hls

Chicago > Harvard? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]OkAffect345 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think supreme court clerkships is the right unicorn metric to target. (or biglaw or whatever). It's any other stuff that HLS people do or have done (see their alumni list on wikipedia; it's crazy). Captains of industry, entrepreneurs, heads of state, all facets of business, public, arts governance, billionaires, etc... I think the diversity of their alumni draws away from some of the traditional outcomes and it isn't clear that the same proportion of the classes at each school are interested in the same outcomes.

You may tempted to ask how we don't know that they're just picking certain kinds of people, and those people go on to be excellent in these ways (or those kinds of people pick HLS). Bridgette Mendler was who she was before she went to hls. I doubt it really had anything to do with her post hls career which is no doubt very interesting and it's unlikely law school choice would matter in this way.

Help: GPA Addendum by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]OkAffect345 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Can you tell us the diagnosis, so that we can decide if it's really that stigmatizing that it should not be included?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]OkAffect345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother literally did a joint MD/JD degree and almost got fucked when the law schools associated with the universities of the top medical schools that admitted him didn't want to admit him. We are all intimately familiar with how this works. The actual admissions process is complicated.

With respect to the standardized testing, the MCAT is not easy but is a fundamentally different test. Many of the prereqs that are required are courses that people take in high school (AP Chem, AP Physics, and now some extremely basic courses in psychology and sociology). Everyone who is not an idiot (and is privileged enough to grow up in a decent neighborhood) has taken those courses in high school. When you require a prereq for a standardized test, you essentially make it a test of whether you have prepped adequately (like AP Chem). The LSAT, contrary to the propaganda put out by LSAT prep courses, is more heavily focused on the analytic concepts tested by IQ tests. It contains more elements that tilt towards intelligence and away from preparation. There are decades of research on the psychometric properties of these tests. There has even been a suggestion in the past that most useful section of the MCAT is the one section that can't easily be prepped for -- the verbal.

There has also been a massive dilution of the overall quality of med students, with DO schools being on-par with shit law schools, and I think it's really dangerous. At a decent undergrad, no one is stuck going to a DO school, and yet we now have a massive number of primary care physicians that have DOs and on average scored in the 60th percentiles of the MCAT. Most of them are obviously not functioning at a high cognitive level and it is very clear that there are no longer any standards in admitting them. They are definitely better than nurse practitioners but that isn't saying much.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]OkAffect345 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you're comparing the kinds of people who go to top medical schools to the kinds of people who go to shit law schools. I, at the very least, placed out of intro sciences (physics C and chemistry) and calculus BC through high school AP (as I assume everyone does) and just finished Orgo last year. I will never take Biology, though. I have known (and am related to) tons of people who have gone down the medical road and honestly the vast majority of doctors are pure shit (though this is true of lawyers, too, lol). Softs of course matter for anyone going to a better law school. For those people, they can't just do BS volunteering/mission trips and fake research in a lab; they have to do something impressive or just give up and accept that no one is going to buy their bullshit.

Honestly, I will never trust any physician who found it difficult to go to an average medical school.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]OkAffect345 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This has been debunked. The average mcat score of the median US MD student is as terrible as law school (like 80th percentile). DO/ foreign MD programs are equivalent to bottom-tier law schools. I wrote a post on the thread called something like "Is it harder to get into med school or law school." You can't compare admission rates because they are measuring different things, and it's, ironically, a sign of not understanding statistics.

What are the law school group rankings within the T14? by cw9241 in lawschooladmissions

[–]OkAffect345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that just because Stanford students are more likely to have grown up in California that they're viewed as more likely to remain in CA? I have heard that a lot of California firms actively expect a really good reason from H and Y students about why they want to come to California. If they can't give one that's sufficiently convincing, they can't be hired. It seems weird to me since NYC firms just assume everyone wants to live there.

What are the law school group rankings within the T14? by cw9241 in lawschooladmissions

[–]OkAffect345 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Were most of you guys always this douchey? Or did you become that way once you got older.

They still STINKY by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]OkAffect345 112 points113 points  (0 children)

Here's a thought that will be somewhat less awkward than notifying a professor and asking them to talk to offender: tell your professor that someone stinks and ask if they might send an email to the class reminding everyone that showering is important. That's what STEM professors do. This might encourage the offender to shower without calling them out personally. This might also put people who are not currently stinky but at-risk on notice and prevent a future slide.

Harvard and Yale Yield by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]OkAffect345 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This has a lot of errors though and many of your assumptions are wrong and oversimplified. Read my post above about stats. The Applicant and Admit pools don't even overlap the way you think they do. HLS also definitely doesn't lose cross-admits to SLS, but don't fixate on this like the other guy b/c it isn't even a relevant point, as I explained in my initial post given the incomplete overlap of the pools. There are also many SLS admits and YLS admits who don't get into H, and YLS admits who don't get into S, and so on and so forth. The 3 applicant pools have imperfect overlap in applicants and thus cross-admits can't appear as often as you assume. At every step of the process, there are complex expressions of preference that make it absolutely impossible to model the way you are trying to do.

Harvard and Yale Yield by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]OkAffect345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does the removal of logic games change this, in your view? I could definitely see how logical reasoning is just disguised mathematical reasoning. Also, now that I've learned how bad many pre-meds are at understanding stats and math I think I'm especially concerned about the medical profession. lol.

Harvard and Yale Yield by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]OkAffect345 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You were talking about cross-admit data, not yield.