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Worth it to Transfer to a 15-25 from a T2?
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:19 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre I don't think my grades after 1L will be top 10%, so no T14 for me most likely. Grades will probably be in the top 10-20% category. I would be giving up about 20k/year to transfer. Think it's worth it? I want biglaw if at all possible, and am a prestige whore unfortunately. Consider this with or without law review - which is possible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5802976) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:21 PM Author: slate lettuce depressive 15-18 yes if you get in (but you wont get in probably)
19-25 you'll probably get in and I guess it might be worth it, though biglaw will be hit or miss. just keep in mind if you go to minnesota or WUSTL you're probably going to be stuck in the midwest
10-20% wont cut it at most T2s for biglaw through OCI with perhaps exceptions for Brooklyn and Dozo (not sure on this) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:23 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre I was thinking maybe GW as a possibility because I might want to do DC biglaw. But I have no clue how firms look at transfers to GW of all places. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5802996) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:24 PM Author: slate lettuce depressive people at GULC have trouble getting DC biglaw so don't bet on it. GW is a good school though, might be worth it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803005) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:27 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre It's just that I doubt my current school will get me DC biglaw at all because it's not in that market. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803024) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:25 PM Author: pea-brained lodge indirect expression How do you think you will do from your current school in finding a biglaw gig? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803012) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:28 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre If I'm where I think I am (btw 10-20%) it will depend on law review. If I get it, I can probably get a V100 in my market. Without it, I doubt biglaw is a possibility. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803032) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:30 PM Author: slate lettuce depressive uh good luck with V100. that's quite a stretch for a 10-20% at a T2 (unless you have IP background or URM). have you actually looked at your schools alumni at local firms and talked to people who did 2L OCI? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803044) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:35 PM Author: 180 boiling water really depends on the school/market. there are plenty of t2 schools that get top 10% into regional offices of v100 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803079) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:36 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre Right, top 10% is really the cut off, but with Law Review it's definitely possible to get biglaw outside top 10%, provided you are fairly close to it. At least that's how it works at my school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803082) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:31 PM Author: pea-brained lodge indirect expression Well I think you should try to cover all the bases. Really try to make lrev (though the comp might be over now...idk) in addition to sending transfer applications to some 10-25 schools.
Is the market NYC? |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:38 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre Market is indeed NYC. There are enough T2 schools in the area that it's not in any way outting myself by saying so.
Law Review is going to be key for me I think.
But I'm definitely thinking of throwing out a few apps to those schools, it's just whether it's worth it is the question. |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:41 PM Author: slate lettuce depressive if you're at dozo or brooklyn I could definetly see it worth it to stay for that scholarship (assuming near 10% and LR). St John's I wouldn't think so, perhaps at newark (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803117) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:31 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle You will not get into a Top 20 school coming from a Tier 2 unless you are in the top 20 students, not %, in your class. Hope this fucking helps, toilet dweller.
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:34 PM Author: slate lettuce depressive Top 20? You go to WUSTL or Minn? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803072) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:38 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle Northwestern is not elite. hth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803097) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:38 PM Author: 180 boiling water wrong. gtown takes people outside of that range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803098) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:40 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle GeorgeTTTown is a facTTTory that's why. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803105) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:40 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre This is completely untrue. But I am indeed a toilet dweller. Good of you to catch that one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803108) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:43 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle So you think that a #16 school will take you from a tttttttttttttttier 2 being in the top 20% but magically a #14 school will only take you being in the top 10%. You're a friggin retard. Good luck getting dinged everywhere you apply. You will not transfer to a Top 20 being only in the Top 20%. Ain't gonna happen. Not unless you're a URM. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803127) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:48 PM Author: slate lettuce depressive Top 20 includes WUSTL and Minnesota. Yes they will take top 20s from T2s.
Those two schools have destroyed the T20 designation. |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:49 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle Minnesota is a solid law school. And no, I don't go there. You're a fucking idiot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803165) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:49 PM Author: Dark sandwich antidepressant drug Hello Madame Cunt, you fucking retarded slit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803162) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:50 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle OK, loser. Get a life. loooooserrrr. You know what I mean. |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:57 PM Author: Dark sandwich antidepressant drug It is so easy to pick out your posts.
And I know for a fact you are wrong, just as you have been on every opinion you've ever had. |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:41 PM Author: Dark sandwich antidepressant drug Wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803110) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:44 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle Oooh, wow, a string of brainwashed xoxo trolls all just said I was wrong... I MUST be wrong then. *shivers* Fucking retards. |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:47 PM Author: pea-brained lodge indirect expression You seem to regurgitate much of the what the usual mediocre brainwashed xoxo trolls say. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803150) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:55 PM Author: 180 boiling water Dr. Dipshit -
what makes you think that school's like Minnesottta, Wustttl, and even gtttown have a hard and fast rule that nobody outside of the top 20 PEOPLE can transfer? you honestly think they auto-reject t10%? |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:58 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle My statement was no more absurd than the assertion that Top 20% at a fucking tier 2 means you are somehow in at a #15 or 16, but are an auto reject from #14. That is fucking ludicrous particularly in light of the absurdly large class size at Georgetown. Absolute crock of shit.
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:53 PM Author: very tactful lay Subject: u can transfer If its Brooklyn, you def have a shot. I know a classmate who was just a hair outside the top 15% (or maybe 20) who wanted to move out of NYC so she transferred to Northwestern Law.
The classmates who transferred out to NYU and Columbia were all in the top 5%. With top 20% rank, I dont think you should have any trouble going to a Top 25 LS. Just make sure you have a good essay explaining why you want to transfer besides just writing, 'because your school is ranked higher'.
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:57 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre Anything special that person had for transferring to NU? NU is pretty impressive from 15% - I'm just looking for something like Vandy or GW or something if I get 15% from my school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803213) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:03 PM Author: very tactful lay Subject: the girl who left BLS for N'western Well she sat next to me in Con Law our first semester. She came in with a very small scholarship, her undergrad was University of Chicago...she had 1-2 yrs of experience before LS. She didnt mention transferring until midway through 1L, around March or April. She mentioned leaving NYC because she missed Chicago and wanted to be closer to her family. She said that was the only reason she transferred, her 1L grades were solid but nothing amazing (B+'s, A-'s).
Anything is possible. Don't let this board depress you. You wont know unless you try.
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:09 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre Thanks for the info. I might throw out a couple to schools in the lower T14 just as hail mary's. This is of course all speculative, because I haven't gotten my grades back yet, but I'm fairly certain I'll be about 15-20%. It's a long shot from my school, but yeah, who knows. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803292) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:05 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle First of all fucknuts, Brooklyn is Top tier and ranked around #66 - not a Tier 2 - major fucking difference. Second of all fucknuts, there is a major major fucking difference between being Top 5% and merely Top 20% --> you cannot assume that "uhhhh lemmme see - top 5% getsa a top 5 school, meathinka topa 20% gets a top 20 school. Yeah yeah." If that were true, EVERYONE WHO IS TOP 20% AT A TTTTTTTTTTIER 2 *WOULD* TRANSFER TO A TOP 20. IDIOT. Fucking 'tard. I swear. |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:07 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre T2 is 51-100, idiot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803273) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:09 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Confused Garrison Wrinkle Nevertheless, you're not going anywhere at top 20%. Enjoy your stay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803291) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:15 PM Author: Exhilarant primrose public bath dude just revealed himself as douche flame. just ignore him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803330) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:16 PM Author: Alcoholic flickering theatre Ah I know he's flame. Not very good flame either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803340) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:18 PM Author: Exhilarant primrose public bath yea, he's not xoxo quality. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803349) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:50 PM Author: Sienna lascivious therapy point haha! he disappeared! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803553) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:09 PM Author: Dark sandwich antidepressant drug Are you plugged in to a retard machine? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803290) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:11 PM Author: scarlet dog poop trailer park Wow, you're stupid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803304) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 6:13 PM Author: very tactful lay Subject: rank BLS is ranked # 58 this year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5803315) |
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Date: May 18th, 2006 12:49 AM Author: topaz candlestick maker Wow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=418371&forum_id=2#5806144) |
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Date: May 18th, 2006 8:26 AM Author: Rusted Floppy Parlour dude..just check out yahoo transfer apps... why don't you transfer to fordham then? |