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Success in Law School |
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major shmajor |
| Date Posted: |
10/03/2002 |
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and don't go to law school if you consistently used flawed logic as in your post. Using your basis for evaluating difficulty, I could posit that Florida State University is a more difficult school than Middlebury because the average GPA is lower. Should we ignore all other factors in evaluating students and courses such as the quality of students who decide to take engineering or liberal arts?
Maybe there are a ton of dodos who take engineering because they can't write a thesis or want a major that will prepare them for a specific career who then bring the GPA down. Neither you nor I can say unless you bring forth more substantive information than anecdotes from your college. Because I could tell you about the valedictorian of my college who had a great GPA because he took a bunch of science classes where there was always a concrete answer and thus could be wrung out with hours of slogging away in the library. However, this kid could barely deliver his speech and couldn't write a coherent paragraph because he had steered clear of any course which required argument or contraversy. And before you resort to some snide attack on me for being a liberal arts goofball I'll let you know that I was a mathematics major and while took a number of history and English classes, I wrote my papers before the internet became a repository of plagiarism. |
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these folks all have their opinions.
i was a history major with a political science minor. my other studies included literature, greek mythology, all the other humanities stuff. i found it a great preparation.
as for "don't go to law school if you consistently use flawed logic," i disagree completely. if you want to cure yourself of using flawed logic, go to law school. you will learn to dread the sound of your own name and the professor calls on you to explain the facts of some case from 1825. if you use flawed logic, you will find out how to cure it or you will die a slow painful death trying.
follow your own instincts.
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