Just got into the University of Minnesota Law School (ranked 20), thankfully, after a depressing month of getting rejected by top 14 schools. Finally I feel like I can relax. Rockets are winning and life is looking up. Life is good.
congratulations! i got some stuff in the mail from the university of minnesota law school and it looks like a nice school. i will probably be applying there as well.
Congrats. Here's a site you may want to check out: http://www.columbia.com/SubCategory.aspx?top=1&cat=110&viewAll=false Seriously though, good luck and I hope you enjoy being a Golden Gopher.
Where does it say Univ of Minn. is ranked 20? Just curious. I wanna see what the full list looks like. Thanks.
Congrats! Good luck in Minnesota. Quick word of advice: if you want to practice in Texas, I suggest trying to transfer to UT or a T14. Not that you couldn't find a job here with a Minnesota degree, but it might be a challenge. Oh yeah, have as much fun between now and when school starts, because law school pretty much sucks
Congrats! I'm in the same boat - looking at attending WashU, Wash&Lee, and SMU right now. Holding out until I hear from UT though.
Yea, I'm not fully committed just yet as I've still yet to hear back from UT and I'm waitlisted at UCLA, but at the very least I'm officially in somewhere I'm glad to be in at.
Did you apply anywhere else in Texas? Assuming that is even where you want to practice law. I just got back from SMU's admitted students day last weekend - really great school, beautiful campus setting. You usually hear two trains of thought regarding law school: a) Go to the best school you get into, or b) go to school in the state where you want to work in. Sucks when A and B are conflicting! I'm waitlisted at Notre Dame and Vanderbilt, but I would put up my deposit the second I got into UT - hopefully we both make it in. If you haven't looked already, lawschoolnumbers.com is a pretty cool site you can get obsessed with quickly.
Welcome to hell. A good many graduates of law schools today are having trouble finding jobs. Too many lawyers, not enough cases. It was a little difficult when I graduated from law school almost 8 years ago. My understanding is that the job market for baby lawyers is really tight now.
Congrats. I used to work for the Austin office of a Minneapolis-based firm. I went up there quite a bit for business and really enjoyed the area. It's a beautiful city.
We might be Gophers together if I can talk myself into going there over places that have given me schollies.
I hear it's strong, as long as you have an engineering degree and good law school grades. Can't really do soft IP (i.e., non-patent) in Houston. Energy and Pharmaceuticals are where the business is here. Engineers do the best, but I know a biochem major who got a big firm offer out of Dallas, and a CS guy who is working at a boutique. There's a reason IP attorneys make so much money. If your engineering or hard sciences job is just TOO exciting, and you don't mind working 80 to 100 hours a week, IP can be a nice life-sucking, high-paying career change.
