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josepidal

Joined: 18 Oct 2005
Posts: 237
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Mon Feb 26, 2007 07:11 PM
Come on. Let's have the hard facts about HLS in your original tone.

(Apologies to other readers, but this is juvenile fun.)
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bjorn

Joined: 20 Feb 2007
Posts: 13
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Mon Feb 26, 2007 07:21 PM
yes. and how about the hard facts on all three top schools: HLS, SLS, YLS. i know there have been some threads on this before, but did not find them conclusive. any new opinions?
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arbitguy

Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Posts: 9
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Mon Feb 26, 2007 07:26 PM

I think "the JD leads to higher employability" truism has been ground to dust on this forum...

Its a fundamental truth - its undeniable in its essence; its like saying if you get up early in the morning, the chances of u staying healthier for longer are better. Most members are LLM applicants on this site who already have a home country law degree. Suggesting to someone - to do a JD -
is just suggesting a lame remedy which most ppl would not take up (of course there may be exceptions - but very few i believe)

I think its best to try and time yr LLM to a nicety - look at the health of yr domestic economy, look at the US economy, consider how many ppl from yr law school obtained associate positions in previous yrs and a cost benefit analysis of how much debt leverage u want to take on if u dont get aid (that is u should be confident, in a worst case scenario to be able to come back to yr home country to find lucrative employment to pay off the debt) -- thats if u dont hv a rich dad

These rational decisions any person can take. If you play the odds well - u'll make yr LLM get u what a "JD" was destined to get. The market is hot this year - do your reseach and play yr cards... Let the games begin
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ivan2006


Joined: 30 Nov 2005
Posts: 312
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Mon Feb 26, 2007 07:36 PM
Come on. Let's have the hard facts about HLS in your original tone.

(Apologies to other readers, but this is juvenile fun.)


By the way, I miss yueping - he was always ready to a good fight, without regard of the opponentīs law school.
This is starting to look like a Discovery Channelīs documentary: there is always a bigger predator around...

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realmcoy

Joined: 27 Dec 2006
Posts: 23
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Mon Feb 26, 2007 07:41 PM
with the documentary maker being "US News" is suppose...
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josepidal

Joined: 18 Oct 2005
Posts: 237
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Mon Feb 26, 2007 08:01 PM
Ivan: I have an idea. Why don't we fight over who gets to be the predator here. As a gentlemanly gesture, you and your supermarket law degree can take the first shot. :-P

(Hopefully, the people reading the Penn-related threads realize that two data points don't make a statistically significant trend.)
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ivan2006


Joined: 30 Nov 2005
Posts: 312
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Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:10 PM
Hehehehehehehehehehe
Although there are various kinds of supermarkets: if you have to be a supermarket, it is better to be WholeFoods than WalMart, as itīs better to be WalMart than Joeīs grocery store.
But thereīs no sense that we fight among us, though. Have you seen that movie "Rounders" (Matt Damon was a poker player that attended law school)? In one scene, a lot of pros (including Damon) were playing cards in Atlantic City and taking all the money of some poor fellas that had NO idea where they had gotten into.
Then Damon says: "We're not playing together, but we're not playing against each other, either. It's like the Nature Channel. You donīt see piranhas eating each other, do you?"
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yueping

Joined: 01 Feb 2006
Posts: 109
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:20 AM
By the way, I miss yueping - he was always ready to a good fight, without regard of the opponentīs law school.
This is starting to look like a Discovery Channelīs documentary: there is always a bigger predator around...


Yay, someone here noticed I was gone for a while and misses me. :)
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ivan2006


Joined: 30 Nov 2005
Posts: 312
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:26 AM
Welcome back, dude!
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josepidal

Joined: 18 Oct 2005
Posts: 237
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Tue Feb 27, 2007 01:11 AM
This is a Clark Kent / Superman moment, no? When one disappears, the other appears. ;)
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Big M

Joined: 18 Feb 2007
Posts: 6
UCLA, Cornell, UPenn or NYU
Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:53 AM
Hi guys -

Got positive decsions from UCLA, Cornell and UPenn. I have family in LA and I gut partial grant at UCLA so it appears that UCLA would be much cheaper than the others. Which one should I take?

Thank you all for your advice.
Me.
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