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UC-Hastings vs. University of San Diego and Transfer Prospects |
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passed up |
| Date Posted: |
05/28/2002 |
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I love berkeley (I live in the Bay area), its an excellent school with out the ivy league price tag that Stanford, for example, requires. I guess, because I got in as an undergrad (deferred) and made the mistake of not taking that opportunity and this is some way of changing the past? Anyways, I can't retake the LSAT again because I already taken it twice. However, I've been thinking about taking some classes anyways. But, I don't know how much of a difference it will make. They would need my final grades from next spring, which would delay the decision next year and wouldn't necessarily be advantageous in my situation. On the other hand, I'm 25 now and will be 28 by the time I graduate law school if I went this year. I guess I don't want to put it off any longer you know. I am interested in Tax Law or Criminal Law. USD has a great criminal law program and Hastings has a superb Tax Law program. I just don't want to be in a situation where I'm working my ass off in Hastings to be passed up by someone in Boalt who barely studied just because of the name. |
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well, if you want to do tax law at hastings, ranking doesn't matter quite as much. i think the feeling is that its much easier to find a BIGLAW job in tax coming out of here. (its a similar situation as being a patent prosecutor out of hastings--grades won't matter as much since you have a unique skillset)
one more thing. just b/c someone graduated from boalt doesnt mean they have easy job opps in BIGLAW. grades still matter there as well and they have to work for their BIGLAW jobs. they dont work quite as hard as hastings students, but they DO work for the jobs. (I know some boalties who had a hard time finding jobs)
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