r/LawSchool

The key number system on Westlaw is far and away so much better. And ever since they made the updates to make it faster, it has been great

The GPA inflation trend over the past few decades makes it difficult to distinguish between top students and only creates fine gradation for student with "poor performance", that is sub 3.5 GPAs. But if you are kind of smart and hard working a 3.5 is guaranteed. If you are very smart and very hard working you can easily break 3.9. Btw, I am not judging the students here, only the grading standards, as I was a poor performer myself.

Students with 3.8+ GPAs are now competing for admissions to top grad programs. Places like Harvard Law School have a mean GPA of 3.8ish and typically have 3.9+ GPAs applicants. They are now using the tenths and hundredths place to distinguish between applicants and prefer those with 4.0 GPAs composed of many A+ because they are "top-censored" which means those students hit the grade ceiling for their school and couldn't event be properly graded. This is the problem.

If the average grade were a 2.0, as was originally intended, we would not have this ceiling effect that effectively destroys information. Abysmal students can now be easily distinguished from bad ones with a 1.6 versus a 2.3 GPA, but that is useless information because those students don't typically apply to grad school. And if they do, they are almost always automatically rejected. Yet the applicants grad schools truly care about, the high achievers, can no longer be more finely sorted without using standardized tests that have fine gradations above the 98th percentile.

GPA inflation might make it seem like everyone is a winner and gets a sticker just for showing up to class but it is a becoming a burden on society. A Stanford Math Ph.D. program might need to know if you are in the 99th percentile versus the 99.99th (i.e. 1 in 100 versus 1 in 10,000).

Current 3L. There’s a district court case that is basically about the issue I wrote about it in my student comment, which is being published next month.

I’ve been following the docket and I think the judge will be deciding on the MTD shortly after my comment comes out.

Can I send it to the judge after it gets published or is that like some form of impermissible interference with the case?

I did a simulated ex parte presentation with an FCC lawyer and she said my argument was so good that it was comparable to the arguments given in front of congress(!!)

Lowkey felt like I had no clue what I was doing the whole time but I feel SO validated rn, especially bc I have no legal background and sometimes struggle to feel as though I’ll be a good lawyer. I’m just really happy for this win

Anyone have any suggestions for dry eyes / trouble focusing on screens during finals? My eyes are already giving me pain and I need to get through these new few weeks. Eye drops and blue light glasses haven’t helped much. Any other solutions would be welcomed gratefully!

Currently overwhelmed with all these moving parts. The Rich Freer video has helped a bit but my mind goes blank when I have to apply it. Any tips tricks, resources, videos, etc. would be appreciated

I’m doing an internship for credit this summer and I should be happy, but I feel like I’m gonna go nuts. I miss my old job. I miss my income. I’m too old for this!!

I failed the bar exam for the sixth time. The first time I requested a waiver was due to a high-risk pregnancy. I would like to request a second waiver, but I don't have any of the listed excuses (health, war, or emergency). Does anyone know if it's possible to get a second waiver to take a seventh attempt at the bar exam in Texas? Any guidance or advice on how to submit a second waiver would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone interested in sharing a quimbee subscription? Dm me and we can set it up.

Curious about the timeline between the three rounds for Queens ADA, if anyone knows.

Hi all. I’m here seeking y’all’s collective wisdom about whether to start law school this year or next.

I am considering deferring mainly for mental health reasons. I went through a traumatic experience a year ago, which really rocked my world. I had to move home and take some medical leave for PTSD. Between all of this, I’d decided that I wasn’t going to apply to law school this cycle.

November came around, though, I was feeling better, so I changed my mind & decided to apply. I think I wanted a distraction and also to feel like I was moving forward.

Flash forward to today. I’ve been accepted to a T3, and while I‘m excited, I’m also scared. My mental health has dipped and I’m worried that I’m not resilient enough for law school yet. If I deferred, I’d continue working in my current job, travel, hang with my family, therapy up the wazoo. It would be restful, but there would be little sense of momentum or challenge. A lot of time to think and feel—for better or for worse. But it could go a long way in terms of emotional stability and feeling ready for an intense environment.

On the flip side, a deferral year might not meaningfully improve things. My mom thinks it’d be in fact more helpful for me to jump into something new, be challenged, and have a sense of moving forward. To some extent, I think she’s right. Newness and a challenge would be good. But I worry law school is too much of that. I don’t want to crash and burn, or feel like I’m just enduring or treading water.

Any advice, perspective or experiences would be so helpful. I know the choice is ultimately mine, but it’d be great to hear from people who know what law school is like, and how it has impacted them.

Does anyone know how these dissertation writers manage to complete a full dissertation in just a week—and that too on literally any topic, without AI or plagiarism issues? Genuinely curious how they pull it off.

Recently I was accepted into both American University and University of Richmond, with both schools offering 40k a year.

On its face, Richmond seems to be a better choice: better employment outcomes, better ranking, less expensive with tuition and cost of living. I'm already located in Richmond, where I could stay with family, and I genuinely like living here.

What gives me some pause, and I do feel it's secondary to focusing on career outcomes and expenses, is that Richmond seems to lack diversity. I'll be able to better gauge this for myself when I tour, but my view of U of R is that its very small, cliquey, and upper-class white. Not looking to relive undergrad, just considering the personal experience and whether AU will provide better opportunities to connect with a wider range of people.

I don't have a strong sense of what focus or area of law I want to work in yet, but I am drawn towards international law and government/policy. AU does compete with better schools in a very compacted market, but with it being in DC it does seem a better choice for that.

Just curious what any of you all think and appreciate the time.

so basically i have friend and his friend is a political connected guy and a rich brat so what we are going to do is my another friend is going to provide a blank cheque from somewhere of a guy he got cheated with alr a legal case on him so hes giving that signed cheque to that politically connected guy and hes telling to fill amount worth 1.20cr and hell give 10 lakhs worth cash i think my friend is doing wrong here what can be worst scenario here if he gets caught lol and guess what they want me to also involve in this so they get me a share but i dont want to i am mature enough how can i make him negative to not do this shady stuff

Hey guys, so throughout high school, I was always a straight-A student. I won plenty of awards and was even honored by the Prince of my region for a project I did.

Now, I’m in law school. It’s a 4-year intensive program, and honestly, it’s just as brutal as law school anywhere else in the world.

My midterms just started. I aced my first exam, but now I’m hitting a wall with some subjects. They are so hard to understand, and memorizing isn't helping either—nothing seems to work.

I’m starting to feel like I don’t belong here and that I’m a failure. I spent three whole days studying this one subject, but it’s still not clicking. I’m putting so much pressure on myself to get a perfect score, especially since my professor challenged us, saying that nobody could ace her class because it’s 'too difficult.'

I’m honestly just really scared