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[s]Probably[/s] moving to Miami - Please advise
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 22, 2007, 07:47:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 22, 2007, 07:42:46 pm ---
It's also kinda funny - what Vader said was "reasonable" for a 2-bedroom apartment ($950-1000/month) would be rent for a NI-ICE HOUSE in my area...but then again, who wants to live in a cow pasture in almost-Canuckistan? ;D
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More importantly, which law school is located there that I can attend? ;)
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ScrewU
I bet if I put in a good word, you'd get accepted in a heartbeat ;)
MikeQ:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 22, 2007, 07:44:48 pm ---My daughter is 7 months old, so schools are of no concern. As to debt, $120,000 is probably closer to the mark. It's still an enormous figure, but better than 200,000 I suppose. Tuition is $32,000 / year. Deferring at this point is unattractive to me, both because I deferred my bachelor's degree for so long (I'm graduating in a couple months at 28 years old) and because my best hope of getting into a better school at this point is as a transfer student. The only way I could increase my chances without starting at another school is to study for and retake the LSAT, which I'm sure I would do even as a transfer student (I scored very well the first time, but I know for a fact that I can do considerably better).
Also, Miami is a very good school, ranked in the top 25 for international law (around 18 or 19, I believe). It's important to remember when applying for schools that everyone applying knows that schools standards. Every school publishes the median LSAT and GPAs for their previous entering class (as well as the 25th/75th percentiles of the LSAT scores and GPAs). Since it costs about $100 per school to apply, most people don't apply to schools that they obviously have no chance of getting into. The vast majority of applicants who are turned down were qualified to go to that school. Berkeley, for example, gets over 7000 applicants per year and they only offer seats to less than 10% of those. So putting off law school for a year in order to try again is a pretty tough prospect considering the lottery you are up against.
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I'll see what my cop friend can turn up. I left him a message.
If you are driving from UT to here, you should put a call out to all the BYOAC members to put you up for a night along your route. BTW, I have a brother that lives in Morgan.
University of Miami was a good school when I lived down south (20 years) ago. Glad to hear it is still well ranked.
billf:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 22, 2007, 07:57:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 22, 2007, 07:47:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 22, 2007, 07:42:46 pm ---
It's also kinda funny - what Vader said was "reasonable" for a 2-bedroom apartment ($950-1000/month) would be rent for a NI-ICE HOUSE in my area...but then again, who wants to live in a cow pasture in almost-Canuckistan? ;D
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More importantly, which law school is located there that I can attend? ;)
--- End quote ---
ScrewU
I bet if I put in a good word, you'd get accepted in a heartbeat ;)
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:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
Nearly spit out my drink on my keyboard.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: MikeQ on March 22, 2007, 08:03:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 22, 2007, 07:44:48 pm ---My daughter is 7 months old, so schools are of no concern. As to debt, $120,000 is probably closer to the mark. It's still an enormous figure, but better than 200,000 I suppose. Tuition is $32,000 / year. Deferring at this point is unattractive to me, both because I deferred my bachelor's degree for so long (I'm graduating in a couple months at 28 years old) and because my best hope of getting into a better school at this point is as a transfer student. The only way I could increase my chances without starting at another school is to study for and retake the LSAT, which I'm sure I would do even as a transfer student (I scored very well the first time, but I know for a fact that I can do considerably better).
Also, Miami is a very good school, ranked in the top 25 for international law (around 18 or 19, I believe). It's important to remember when applying for schools that everyone applying knows that schools standards. Every school publishes the median LSAT and GPAs for their previous entering class (as well as the 25th/75th percentiles of the LSAT scores and GPAs). Since it costs about $100 per school to apply, most people don't apply to schools that they obviously have no chance of getting into. The vast majority of applicants who are turned down were qualified to go to that school. Berkeley, for example, gets over 7000 applicants per year and they only offer seats to less than 10% of those. So putting off law school for a year in order to try again is a pretty tough prospect considering the lottery you are up against.
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I'll see what my cop friend can turn up. I left him a message.
If you are driving from UT to here, you should put a call out to all the BYOAC members to put you up for a night along your route. BTW, I have a brother that lives in Morgan.
University of Miami was a good school when I lived down south (20 years) ago. Glad to hear it is still well ranked.
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That's really cool. I appreciate it a lot. Morgan, UT? Is he Mormon?
MikeQ:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 22, 2007, 11:10:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: MikeQ on March 22, 2007, 08:03:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 22, 2007, 07:44:48 pm ---My daughter is 7 months old, so schools are of no concern. As to debt, $120,000 is probably closer to the mark. It's still an enormous figure, but better than 200,000 I suppose. Tuition is $32,000 / year. Deferring at this point is unattractive to me, both because I deferred my bachelor's degree for so long (I'm graduating in a couple months at 28 years old) and because my best hope of getting into a better school at this point is as a transfer student. The only way I could increase my chances without starting at another school is to study for and retake the LSAT, which I'm sure I would do even as a transfer student (I scored very well the first time, but I know for a fact that I can do considerably better).
Also, Miami is a very good school, ranked in the top 25 for international law (around 18 or 19, I believe). It's important to remember when applying for schools that everyone applying knows that schools standards. Every school publishes the median LSAT and GPAs for their previous entering class (as well as the 25th/75th percentiles of the LSAT scores and GPAs). Since it costs about $100 per school to apply, most people don't apply to schools that they obviously have no chance of getting into. The vast majority of applicants who are turned down were qualified to go to that school. Berkeley, for example, gets over 7000 applicants per year and they only offer seats to less than 10% of those. So putting off law school for a year in order to try again is a pretty tough prospect considering the lottery you are up against.
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I'll see what my cop friend can turn up. I left him a message.
If you are driving from UT to here, you should put a call out to all the BYOAC members to put you up for a night along your route. BTW, I have a brother that lives in Morgan.
University of Miami was a good school when I lived down south (20 years) ago. Glad to hear it is still well ranked.
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That's really cool. I appreciate it a lot. Morgan, UT? Is he Mormon?
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No. He's religion free. He use to live in Tampa and worked for Delta Airlines doing avionics. Delta closed the maintenance hub in Tampa so he transfered to Salt Lake. He wanted a bunch of land and Morgan had it so that is where he bought.
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