Hello everyone, I was recently admitted to UCSC for fall 2018 and I am pretty sure it’s where I will end up. One thing I was particularly wondering about was the 3+3 program offered by UCSC in coordination with the UC Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. My issue is with Hastings. Basically what I am trying to figure out is if it’s worth the one less year to go to a slightly lower ranked law schools such as Hastings, or to do the full four years for my BA and shoot for a tier 1 law school such as Stanford, Berkeley, or UCLA. Please don’t question my ability to get into these schools as that is not the point of this thread, instead offer insight on if it is worth the one less year to alternatively go to Hastings.
@ucguy58 Hastings is a very good law school. If you do well there, you’d be competitive with any Boalt, UCLA or Stanford law grad in Bay area. If you are set on being a lawyer, the UCSC/Hastings program sounds a winner. Don’t know if you can swing it, but Hastings at one time had a 4 year JD/MBA program with Haas at UC Berkeley. As you’ll see, senior year in college is often a “can’t wait 'til it’s over year” and not coincidently so is your third year of law school.
FYI - USC law had a similar 3+3 program in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s. My colleagues who did it were grateful.