There’s been some talk recently about what a hard life bloggers
lead. But blogging isn’t really that
hard if you just rip off your editor’s last post. Watch:
Last week, UCLA Law Dean Michael Schill made a splash when
told the WSJ
Law Blog about incoming law students’ efforts to play law school deans
against each other for higher merit-based scholarships.
Before you can start making up scholarship figures and emailing
them to the dean of your chosen school, you have to decide which school you
want to go to. PrawfsBlawg
wants you to compare value added across law schools. What does that mean? It
means you weigh relative education quality at 60%, quality of extra-curricular
activities at 10%, quality of career services at 15%, and alumni network at
15%.
Still don’t get it? Me neither really, but that’s probably because my law school
doesn’t emphasize quantitative abilities like Northwestern
does.
I guess it doesn’t really matter how well you haggle. No matter where you go you’ll be paying big
bucks while your professors line
their pockets. Sure, the IRS
will help out afterward with tax free interest if you’re an LRAPer, but
what if you want to work in the private sector? Say you went to Building
a Better Legal Profession and found the perfect firm for you, but they
don’t pay 160k a year?
You’re out of luck. You went to the wrong school because you didn’t understand percentages. The dean at your chosen school called your
bluff so you paid 40k a year for three years. You still do math at a fifth grade level and, in order to pay off all of
your loans you’ll have to either work nights and weekends for 10 years or live
on a friend’s couch and pack your own lunch for 5.
Or, you can just wait until Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac go under and hope the federal government has a little
extra bailout money left over for you.
The thug life sounds pretty good right about now, doesn’t it?
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