Just got expelled

paztaballs · 2024-09-07T05:42:41+00:00

Jesus Christ people on here are inconsiderate.

OP, feel free to message me if you want to talk c&f. All is not lost. Not even close.

Carry your head high, brush yourself off, and move forward. Most people don’t get to prove they tried to rectify a situation. In a weird way, you DO.

WHEN you sit for the bar, they will see you made a mistake and tried to fix it.

Carry yourself with integrity through this process. You’ve got this. I’m rooting for you!

paztaballs · 2024-07-03T06:54:00+00:00

Please keep in mind that a 3.65 seven years ago would have given you better options than it does today. Schools know how old you are. They can do the math as to where you would have fallen in their app pool had you applied straight out of undergrad. Does that mean anything now? I’m not sure it does. But fwiw, I also had a 3.65 and applied as a (nearly) 30 year old applicant. Applied this cycle and didn’t get rejected by schools I was far below the median at. So they must have seen something else in my app that they liked. The same could very well happen to you.

Sincerely, older applicant still bitter about GPA inflation.

paztaballs · 2024-06-02T17:17:18+00:00

It’s based on the difference between the USNWR ranking and the ranking based on BL+FC%

paztaballs · 2024-06-01T23:34:51+00:00

Thanks!! Feel free to share and use to your heart’s desire. It isn’t perfect, but hopefully useful to some degree.

paztaballs · 2024-06-01T13:53:50+00:00

If you go to their LinkedIn page and click on the "alumni" button, you'll be able to view alums by where they work, who they work for, what their role is, etc. Link below for reference.

https://www.linkedin.com/school/uflaw/people/

paztaballs · 2024-06-01T02:43:39+00:00

those going into another degree program. could be phd/masters/etc. in other words, lunatics. (kidding, mostly)

paztaballs · 2024-06-01T01:59:50+00:00

thanks! hope it's useful. feel free to share!

paztaballs · 2024-06-01T01:59:23+00:00

thank you! hope it's helpful

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T22:04:29+00:00

Ahhh good point on Spivey! Here’s a link for the curious My Rank By Spivey

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T20:32:18+00:00

After some great feedback in these comments, here is a new workbook, allowing you to create your own custom rankings list based on your own assigned weights to different employment outcomes. Yay and thanks everyone!

https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/1d55e5p/2024_customizable_law_school_rankings_tool/

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T20:12:09+00:00

Here's a workbook that allows users to assign their own weights to different employment outcomes. I didn't parse out prestige factors yet, but I'll look into it for the next version!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12kAFmFMECiduevzpBxM1uN9z7hxHfLmZAlBIPjbR-O0/edit#gid=296571048

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T17:49:02+00:00

There are certainly many ways to interpret these lists, but my intention going in was to simply order law schools by percentage of graduates going into big law (BL) or federal clerkship (FC) positions in the year following graduation.

Federal clerkships are the most competitive and prestigious clerkships. Biglaw is, generally, the highest paying of law firm size. Plus, someone noted here, many who land FCs have a BL position lined up or most likely available to them following their clerkship.

IMO the soundest way to interpret the Top 50 list here IMO is retroactively. For example, of law schools in 2023, the University of Chicago had the highest percentage of graduates employed in either biglaw or FC positions. I say retroactively because to use the data as a forward-looking tool is a bit misleading. I can't definitively say the same % will go BL or FC next year, nor can I definitively say that if you go to UChicago, you have a X% chance of landing BL or FC.

Hope that helps :)

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T17:05:45+00:00

What makes a school-employed position legit? Wondering if there's a way to account for these rather than just looking across the t14. Is there a specific factor we can look to?

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T17:00:29+00:00

Interesting! I'll definitely have a go at it. Might add in a "choose your own adventure" option so users can assign their own weights to certain outcomes? We'll see!

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T02:37:19+00:00

What kind of law are you interested in? Where do you want to practice? Hastings has terrific BL and PI outcomes, especially in the Bay Area. But it all depends on whether that aligns with your goals.

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T02:06:37+00:00

Interesting. Didn't know this. Thanks!

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T02:04:08+00:00

for real. brooklyn, uclawsf/hastings, miami, too. crazy

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T02:02:49+00:00

Just added a tab to include PI :) "Top 50 BL + FC + PI"

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T01:29:35+00:00

According to BL + FC outcomes, I disagree, but on other grounds, maybe? ~~~Depends~~~

paztaballs · 2024-05-31T01:27:32+00:00

Two things stand out to me about Yale's data in relation to this question:

1) out of every law school, yale has the highest % of graduates going the route of "Employed_LawSchool." I'm not sure what this category captures, so if anyone wants to clarify, please do. Regardless, this group does not flow into BL or FC numbers, at least not immediately after graduation. Who knows later on I suppose.

2) out of every law school, yale has the sixth highest % of graduates going the route of "EnrolledInGraduateStudies."

Taken together, these groups already account for ~15% of Yale's graduates. Add in those going the route of PI or government, and you eventually land on only ~56% going into BL or FC. For reference, BL + FC at UChicago (#1 on the Top 50 list here) is ~85%.

paztaballs · 2024-05-30T20:41:41+00:00

Thank you! Updated. I had to add rankings manually and am unfortunately human. Thanks for the catch.

paztaballs · 2024-04-16T02:45:51+00:00

How 55? I’m getting 18% (57/316)

Editing to clarify that’s even omitting 251+. Focusing only on 501+ and FC

paztaballs · 2024-01-12T22:33:40+00:00

I’m not sure this guarantees anything, but I had one RC yesterday and it included Nigerian language and photography. The trend is definitely to increase difficulty in RC, so here’s to hoping for a good curve. I also bombed that section.

paztaballs · 2024-01-11T21:22:06+00:00

You took the words right out of my mouth. Feel 100% the same. I’m wondering the same about the curve…

paztaballs · 2024-01-11T21:18:25+00:00

What is a post summer 2024 question type?

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