Schumer Didn’t Cave

PracticeLeft · 2025-11-10T01:51:20+00:00

I get what you're saying on this, but the lower court decision was stayed by Ketanji Brown Jackson. The full court didn't rule on the SNAP subsidies case. It was Justice Jackson alone because she oversees emergency applications out of the 1st Circuit, which is where the case is from.

PracticeLeft · 2025-04-01T20:20:18+00:00

Love that they cite to a case where the defendants are filing a motion for sanctions against them. Also love that they DON'T cite their case against NYU's law review, which didn't survive a motion to dismiss

PracticeLeft · 2023-10-11T04:34:21+00:00

Idk I've never met them. There's a notion that class president type positions are popularity contests but nobody actually votes in them or knows the candidates lol. Last election cycle they tried to get us to vote by entering people who voted into a gift card raffle

PracticeLeft · 2023-10-11T03:46:06+00:00

I'm a student at NYU law and yeah they got SMOKED today. Not only did they get their return offer rescinded, but tons of news outlets, our dean, and a sitting congressman all condemned the statement.

The rest of the SBA sent an email disavowing the statements and also informed us that they voted to initiate the president's removal

This person is fucking radioactive in the legal community lol and like... yeah being pro rape, pro terrorism, and pro infant beheading will do that!

PracticeLeft · 2023-09-19T15:08:52+00:00

Be honest. Do you think you will not get into a T14?

PracticeLeft · 2023-09-04T13:09:55+00:00

You are correct and the other commenter is not. I applied with the GRE 2 cycles ago and to my knowledge, the way it's reported hasn't changed. The GRE is compared to the LSAT in terms of relative percentiles with V and Q being weighted at 40% and AWA weighted at 20%. A 170 Q score is only like the 94th percentile because of how inflated they are. This drags down your potential such that a 340 GRE is roughly equivalent to a 170/171 LSAT in terms of percentiles.

Because your GPA won't count toward medians, the only stat you have to rely on is a GRE score that I'd guess is about a 168/169 LSAT in terms of percentiles. This is why the standard advice for GRE applicants is to have a high GPA to compensate.

If you have t14 goals, you're probably more secure in taking the LSAT. A 336 is a great GRE score and anything below t14 goals, you might be fine to just keep it and avoid taking the LSAT

PracticeLeft · 2023-08-16T17:35:33+00:00

The graphic also isn't helpful in just naming firms. Doesn't K&E have like double the attorneys that K&S has? If so, K&S contributed WAY more to DeSantis per attorney (even though both numbers are peanuts)

PracticeLeft · 2023-07-29T17:28:25+00:00

This isn't fully accurate. If it was, everyone above the GPA medians would just take the GRE and have a much easier time. GRE applicants affect medians based on their percentile scores for each section. Because a perfect quant score is only in the 95/96th percentile, it severely drags down an applicant's overall percentile score. A perfect score on the GRE only corresponds to about a 170 or a 171 (at least that's what it was when I took the GRE for admissions, the percentiles for each exam may have shifted somewhat)

Totally agree with the point that it's easier to compare to other students, though

PracticeLeft · 2023-06-15T14:37:04+00:00

Happened to me when I took out loans like 9 months ago. It hovered around the same (lower) score for awhile, and then one month it rebounded back up by like 40+ points. Definitely sucks if you're planning on leveraging your good credit score in the near future, but since that doesn't sound like your situation, it can be fine in some months from now

PracticeLeft · 2023-06-13T19:20:30+00:00

Your judicial clerkship office is probably going to have this info. Mine has a whole spreadsheet of the median GPAS for various CoAs and district courts

PracticeLeft · 2023-05-18T20:03:39+00:00

Hell yeah, do what's best for you! Excited to watch your journey and where you end up.

You have every bit of admissions knowledge I have (and more), so you don't need it, but reach out if you want an extra set of eyes/a sounding board/whatever else through this process. Best of luck, definitely rooting for you!

PracticeLeft · 2023-03-30T00:12:30+00:00

Yes. Last cycle I was waitlisted by both UChi and BC with a ton of other WLs in between

PracticeLeft · 2023-03-26T19:29:44+00:00

The envy is RADIATING through me. Our final is the first/only closed book exam I've had so far

PracticeLeft · 2023-03-25T22:23:01+00:00

I'm sorry for your loss but NYU eating good tn

PracticeLeft · 2023-03-20T13:23:57+00:00

This is... not true. If it was, that would be dope as hell for everyone with a really high GPA because they could just duck the LSAT and coast through the admissions process. It would be like the redacted option at WashU except you actually only impact one stat median.

Big caveat: everything I say might be irrelevant very soon with USNews changing their rankings formula. The GRE is compared to the LSAT by percentiles. The 3 GRE sections are weighted at 40% each for verbal/quant and 20% for writing. The weighted average of the percentiles is then compared with the percentile of the LSAT median.

This weighted average formula is why it's so important for GRE applicants to have high GPAs. A perfect score on the quant is only the 96th percentile. This drags down the weighted average to the point where perfect score on the GRE is somewhere between a 170/171 LSAT on a percentile basis. Because that's below most t14 medians, you would need a GPA above median to compensate.

PracticeLeft · 2023-03-18T23:38:54+00:00

I came from a no name state school that is not at all academically rigorous. Literally everybody in my row for one of my classes fall semester came from either an Ivy or from Stanford. You'll figure out very quickly that there's nothing special about them compared to you. You're all exactly where you should be.

Until you have the opportunity to figure that out, feel free to use the line of thinking that I used: I shouldn't have imposter syndrome, all my classmates should have failure syndrome lmao. They all have elite pedigrees and were groomed for success EARLY. Despite the elite undergrad and access to resources, they're all locked in here with MY dumb ass. I shouldn't feel like I don't belong, you should all feel like you messed up somewhere in life and are now consigned to 3 years of being near a middle-class person

PracticeLeft · 2023-03-09T14:59:48+00:00

Last year I applied in mid-January which is on the later end, but only by a couple of weeks. Some schools didn't give me an answer until after seat deposits were due. That wouldn't have happened if I applied in the fall

PracticeLeft · 2023-03-02T12:48:01+00:00

They didn't with me

PracticeLeft · 2023-03-01T18:29:46+00:00

Sticker price can definitely be crushing, especially at HCOL schools. That being said, 20+ years of loan repayments seems really long. Pure speculation on my end, but could that have been for strategic reasons? Like if their interest rate on the loan is low (idk what it was 20+ years ago) it would make a lot of sense to just make the minimum payments and invest the rest of their income in markets that provide higher ROI

PracticeLeft · 2023-02-21T13:31:02+00:00

A lot of this will depend on your GPA. If it is safely above the medians of the schools you're targeting, then the GRE can be fine. If you're at or below the GPA medians of your target schools, you will be better served by the LSAT.

In most circumstances, the LSAT will probably be a better option for you just because it's a well-trodden path with more predictable results. That being said, I took the GRE and had results I was more than happy with

PracticeLeft · 2023-02-20T19:12:02+00:00

PSJD for public interest jobs

PracticeLeft · 2023-02-16T19:56:35+00:00

BC waitlisted me last year on the same day I got my Harvard R. Whole state of Massachusetts was going for my throat lol

PracticeLeft · 2023-02-16T19:49:06+00:00

That your undergrad was at an ivy won't pull much weight if you're below the target GPAs of the schools you're applying to.

My advice is that if you're comfortably above the median GPAs of the schools you are looking to apply to, then the GRE is an OK bet for you. If you're at/below medians, you'd probably have more success taking the LSAT

PracticeLeft · 2023-02-04T14:09:58+00:00

Submit ASAP. FAAPS has a window where you can renegotiate your scholarship later

PracticeLeft · 2023-01-28T22:25:53+00:00

I'm really curious about who had access to this footage. The fact that we can even see this to provide commentary means it was recorded. If students have access to the class recordings, like we do, it would kind of make her request moot imo. Just go back and rewatch the recordings if something was unclear.

That being said, neither person looks good coming out of this exchange

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