On Transfer Students: An Open Thread
The middle of the summer would seem to be a dead period for American law schools. Law students are gone, working as summer associates or interns (if they were lucky enough to snag something). On-campus...
View ArticleOpen Thread: How do transfer students fare in on-campus interviewing?
Last month’s open thread on transfer students proved very popular. It generated surprisingly substantive commentary, full of helpful advice (and the usual law student status anxiety). Since then, we’ve...
View ArticleAre Top Loyola Law Students Getting Poor Services?
Is it right for a law school to discourage students from transferring? Is it right for a law school to deny services to students who are considering transferring? Because it looks like that is what...
View ArticleOpen Thread: It’s Transfer Time
For many law students, the path to Biglaw riches looks something like this: Step 1: Get into cheap law school. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit. A lot of kids fill in “Step 2” with the idea of trading up to...
View ArticleConfessions of an Aspiring Yale Transfer Student
Law student Tammy Hsu, a first-year student at Wake Forest University School of Law, seeks to harness public exposure for her own benefit. Hsu writes a blog built around her goal of transferring into...
View ArticleAspiring Yale Transfer Student Explains and Defends Her Blog
Shortly after writing about a blog entitled Confessions of an (Aspiring) Yalie, its author, Tammy Hsu, reached out to Above the Law with a defense and explanation of her blog's origins, which we will...
View ArticleYou Can Transfer the Student into Stanford, But You Can’t Transfer the...
When you are a transfer student, you are constantly fighting for respect. We know how transfer students talk to non-transfers, but we don't often get to see how transfer students talk among themselves....
View ArticleShould Transfer Students Be Allowed to Be Valedictorians?
The administration at SMU Law thinks so. What do you think? Take our poll and let us know.
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 06.01.2012
* The bassist of The Vandals, an 80s punk band famous for songs like “Anarchy Burger (Hold the Government),” is running for judge in southern California. Man, I would love to see his campaign video....
View ArticleRising 2L Runs Seminar on ‘How To Succeed In Law School’ After 1L Year At...
This 2L actually wants people to pay him money for his law school success tips...
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