<p>Which school will provide me with the biggest advantage of getting into yale, harvard, or stanford law: UChicago, Duke, or Northwestern? Also is beign an attorney a 9-5 job if you are a trial lawyer, and can you still have a life? </p>
<p>My major is Economics and I have been admitted in each school for econ and can the quesion be answer with the mind set that I will excel in each with like a 4.0 and LSAT scores with 170 and higher</p>
<p>scrath that LSAT 175, with interships</p>
<p>Each of those schools has an equal potential of placing you in a top law program. HLS ans SLS are very numbers-driven, so with a strong GPA and LSAT they’re very doable. YLS is much more difficult because they look at a lot more than numbers in assessing applicants. If you want to a be a trial lawyer, though, HLS and SLS are the schools to be aiming for.</p>
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<p>Actually, SLS is almost just as much of a black box as YLS.</p>
<p>I’m seriously beginning to doubt that you go to YLS.</p>
<p>None of those schools will actively get you anywhere. If you have the numbers, all of them are fine. If you don’t, none of them will help.</p>
<p>If you’re borderline, then it’s going to depend on your EC’s. And the question will be which ones can you find?</p>
<p>FH: AGC claims to be a Yale alum. He/she has never specified, but my impression is that he/she meant Yale College.</p>
<p>if you want to be a lawyer, go to the local state school and save yourself some $$, unless money is REALLY not an issue. a 3.9/174 will get into at least one of YHS law from almost any university</p>
<p>@flowerhead, you know, it’s really fascinating - I never knew that in order to attend a top law school you had to be an expert an every single law school in the country. I never applied to SLS, so I’m just going off of things I’ve heard. If at any time I am mistaken, you are more than welcome to correct you me, and I actively encourage you to do so. I do not, however, find it appropriate for you to attack me or to try to discredit me. Yes, I am currently enrolled at YLS and I am an alum of Yale College. I’ll freely admit this, though - I am not intent on going to work for one of the major law firms, and that has never, at any point in time, been my goal. My enrollment at YLS came after completing my PhD, and it serves only to enrich me academically, as my primary focus is law-related. So, do I know absolutely everything about how to rise up and conquer the world of Big Law - no, nor do I entertain anything of the sort. All I know is that I got in to the top law school in country, so I must know a thing or two about how to be a successful applicant, and I know a lot of other people at YLS whose backgrounds and goals are entirely different from my own from whom I have learned a lot about the process.</p>
<p>There do not appear to be any current YLS students who meet the description offered by AGC.</p>
<p>I did the search by hand, so it’s entirely possible that I’m incorrect, although it should have been pretty easy for me to spot. Alternatively, it’s possible that our listings are incomplete.</p>
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<p>I never said you have to be an expert. It doesn’t take an expert to know that Stanford Law School is an admissions black box.</p>
<p>Moreover, you post things with so much confidence, such that you give the impression that you are an expert: </p>
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<p>Perhaps you should preface your posts, next time, with “this is my opinion,” or its equivalent. That way, people who don’t know better will be able to separate what’s merely conjecture from what’s actually true.</p>
<p>In post #8 agc states that he “completed” his Ph.D before enrolling in YLS. In other posts, he has claimed that </p>
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<p>In other posts, AGC claims that (s)he went to Yale college, was a Marshall Scholar who got a M.Phil. from Cambridge in comparative politics and is currently enrolled as a joint Ph.D. /JD student at Yale. That’s the sort of profile that should be well known at Yale Law. </p>
<p>Out of curiousity, I went through a list of Marshall winners from Yale back to 2003. The US college, British U and field of study is listed for each. There isn’t a Yale College grad who went to Cambridge for a M.Phil. in Comparative Politics. Now, it’s possible that I made a mistake, but there’s a public list on-line of all the Marshall scholars so I’d appreciate it if someone would check my “research” and let me know if there was one. </p>
<p>However, then I noticed this gem:</p>
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<p>Here’s a description of the program from the Cambridge website:</p>
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<p>Michaelmas term–feel free to check it on the U of Cambridge home page–begins in October. You start in October, you complete your coursework by April --when the Lent term ends–and write your dissertation beginning in April and hand it in by mid-July. It does NOT take a full calendar year. </p>
<p>And no, a 10,000 word dissertation isn’t “standard.” It’s far short of the MINIMUM required for a M.Phil.in comparative politics at Cambridge. </p>
<p>Other little problems…all the Marshall Scholars make the trip to the UK together. And…they do NOT arrive at Cambridge in August (when the university is shut down.) </p>
<p>I don’t know what the heck your game is agc, but you are giving horrific advice here. Please stop.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know I’m being OCD-ish about this, but from another post of agc’s in this forum:</p>
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<p>um yea so can i get inot yale, hravard or stanfords law from duke university with extremely high lsats and like a 3.8 gpa, AND i want to be a trail lawyer so can I still have a life as a lawyer???</p>
<p>This thread should be retitled “The complete annihilation of agc0319’s credibility” :)</p>
<p>As long as you go to a decent school-state schools count-and get a good gpa/lsat, you can go anywhere.</p>
<p>Back to the OP’s questions: being a trial attorney is most definitely not a 9 to 5 job.</p>
<p>can i still have a life? like husband, kids?
do i only work mon-fri</p>
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<p>1) regarding husband, kids… it’s debatable.
2) probably not. you might do some hours on the weekend. it usually happens to many associates. and if you hand work in on friday, you’re most definitely on the hook that weekend for following up.</p>