# Got Into My Second Law School Today! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433 "2001-01-17T01:24:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/1 "2001-01-17T01:24:11Z")
Ann Arbor’s such a _lovely_ city. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/2 "2001-01-17T02:26:01Z")
At $20,000+ annual tuition, it better be Paris, London, and Tokyo all rolled into one. But congrats even if you _do_ get stuck in the Big Ten. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/3 "2001-01-17T02:31:26Z")
Sad, but _all_ the places I applied to have $20,000+ tuitions. I don’t know if that says more about my choice of schools or the rising cost of graduate education. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/4 "2001-01-17T02:37:00Z")
Congrats! I’ll call you the second time I get arrested! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/5 "2001-01-17T03:01:28Z")
Way to go, Gad! You da man! 🙂 So, still going to that other one, or has this changed your mind? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/6 "2001-01-17T05:03:39Z")
Your _second_ law school? _$20,000_ per? Why not save some cash and a whole lot of extra work and just attend one? In any event, rent _Paper Chase_ and decide which character will be you. Have fun. Law school can really be a blast. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/7 "2001-01-17T05:18:12Z")
Congrats! Good pick, Go Wolverines! ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/8 "2001-01-17T06:25:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jodi \* > Way to go, Gad! You da man! 🙂 So, still going to that other one, or has this changed your mind? Well, I’m gonna wait and see what I get back from the rest of the schools. 🙂 My tentative preference, at the moment, is as follows: Yale Virginia Stanford Harvard Georgetown Michigan Cornell That’s subject to change based on my visits and, obviously whether or not I get accepted to any more. _grin_ But given the choice between the two so far, without having visited, I’d still stick with G’town. We’ll see, though. Nice decision to have to make! ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/9 "2001-01-17T06:46:28Z")
Not criticism, just curiosity. I’m wondering: sheepskin in hand how much can you expect to make per year once out of college? At 20K a year, and this is your _second_ school (grad student? or like me were you tossed out of your first college for publishing dirty comic books with the school paper’s printing presses?) for how many years will you be in hawk (or rich parents, or did you get a scholorship?)? Also: LAW!? Ugh! Did your parents pressure into this? ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/10 "2001-01-17T07:07:21Z")
Okay, yikes, thread title misunderstanding. Comprehension dawns. When I say, “I got into my second law school today,” I don’t mean that I attended law school once and am back for a second run. I mean that I was accepted to my second law school. I applied to seven. I’ve been accepted, thus far, to two. I start in the fall. For the first time. Things clearer now? “One perfect couple on four perfect blades They execute two perfect figures of eight…” ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/11 "2001-01-17T14:22:17Z")
No DUKE Law School? You get good tix to bball games. And it is further south that ALL of the other choices! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/12 "2001-01-17T15:32:31Z")
If you go to G’town Law, you can come to lots\* of DC Dopefests - always a plus! And if you get into UVa, you’re not _too_ far away - 2 hours from Alexandria via the “Gordonsville Expressway”, and 2.5 hours from downtown DC. Funny how costs are different between grad programs - my graduate math tuition was maybe a couple thou a year, and I had a grad. TA-ship that paid enough to scrape by on in grad-student style, even after paying tuition. But then the expected income of a mathematician is considerably less than that of a lawyer, so I expect it balances out. (Of course, it’s got to be a real killer to people who might want to do public-interest law, or something similarly un-lucrative.) Anyhow, good luck with the rest of the law school apps! \*[sub]And we have a _lot_ of them, as my sig attests. :)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/13 "2001-01-17T16:01:22Z")
WTG, Gad! Ann Arbor **is** a nice city (I was just there in March), but it is coldcoldcold in the winter. (Aren’t you coming from the Pacific Northwest?) Plus, there’s that whole Michigan/OSU thing that you don’t want to be involved in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/14 "2001-01-17T17:20:10Z")
**UncleBill:** I _like_ you! I actually went to Duke for three years, and am still a diehard fan of the university and its basketball team. I chose to go elsewhere for law school, however; mostly for practical reasons (IIRC, law student housing is pretty much confined to Duke Towers and Central, and I don’t have a car; food around campus isn’t that great, and I don’t have a car; I might spend too much of my time going to Duke games). I also just wanted to try somewhere new. I will confess, though, that one reason Virginia is higher on my list than Stanford and Harvard is the opportunity for ACC basketball. 😃 **Phil:** Yup, I’ve been to Ann Arbor in November and in May. May was nice, but _shiver_ I feel the need for layers just remembering that Michigan winter. Pretty campus, though of course nothing like Duke’s. 🙂 **Rufe:** I just may _become_ a public-interest lawyer! The schools have great debt forgiveness programs for people who go into those areas of law, though; I think I’ll be okay. Anyway, I _will_ be in D.C. at the end of March for a Georgetown preview weekend, so I’ll be expecting to meet the both of you. Don’t think that D.C. Dopefests weren’t a **major** consideration in my applying to Georgetown (okay, they weren’t, but don’t think that anyway)–I’ll evaluate you guys when I come, and will make my decision accordingly. _grin_ Make sure to dress up nice. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/15 "2001-01-17T17:53:05Z")
What? You only got into the _second_ best law school in the country? Wussy. ::Ender goes and slinks off, knowing that Sally Struthers wouldn’t even mail him a diploma:: I’ve got a friend at Michigan Law School right now. I know you already know this, but I’ll tell you again. It does get just a touch nipply up there. Maybe bring a windbreaker or something. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cantrip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Cantrip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cantrip)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/16 "2001-01-17T17:55:07Z")
Way to go, **Gad**! I’m waiting to hear of your acceptance to Yale; then you can stop waiting by the mailbox every day. 😉 You’re right - G’town or Michigan is a pretty damn nice choice to have to make. Don’t know anything about their PIL programs, though. Two for two. Man, you must be good. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/17 "2001-01-17T18:03:18Z")
Two? Damn, I’ve only heard from one so far. God knows what’s up Michigan’s hiney–they sent me that letter saying that my application was complete two freakin’ weeks ago, even though I’ve had everything in for ages now. If you heard from them, though, I suppose I will soon. Oh, well. I’m in Ohio State, at least. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/18 "2001-01-17T18:13:01Z")
**Ender:** How does your friend like it at Michigan? **Cantrip:** I don’t know if I’m good so much as I just wrote a really good personal statement. I’ve got an interesting academic history (go to really good school, flunk out due to slacking off and being young, go to really bad school, switch majors from theatre to political science, get good grades and a great test score\*) that I had to delve into, and I think I did a fair job of showing them that past failures are not indicative of future results. In that way, I think, my application stood out–which helped. I also included a poem. 🙂 **Drain:** I got my “your application is complete” letter from Michigan just before Christmas; that’s, what, three weeks? I say you hear from them next Tuesday! Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/19 "2001-01-17T18:16:32Z")
Oops, forgot the footnote and ruined the joke. Append this, mentally, to the bottom of my last post: [sub][sup]\*[/sup]This parenthetical remark, strangely enough, relates my personal statement verbatim. Brevity is best, apparently![/sub] _grumble_ I can’t believe I forgot the footnote… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433/20 "2001-01-17T18:38:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gadarene \* > \*\ ***UncleBill:** I _like_ you! I actually went to Duke for three years, and am still a diehard fan of the university and its basketball team. \*\* I did the four-and-a-quarter-and-out program, I may actually still hold the current record for academic probation, and I got that damned “I” grade after returning from Myrtle my sr year. Re-conducted a semester of lab work in about three weeks of dwelling in the basement of Big Red. Yikes. Call me Class O’ 88.25! Yeah, grad housing is a nowhere deal if you’re wheel-less. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-into-my-second-law-school-today/50433.md?page=2)