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[s]Probably[/s] moving to Miami - Please advise
shmokes:
I bet it's interesting for him. I'll bet his town is up around 90% Mormon. You get into Salt Lake and the number drops down to around 50%, but in the small places it's practically unanimous.
MikeQ:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 23, 2007, 10:39:37 am ---I bet it's interesting for him. I'll bet his town is up around 90% Mormon. You get into Salt Lake and the number drops down to around 50%, but in the small places it's practically unanimous.
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He's okay with it. He's like me. I like everyone until they give me reason not to. Don't preach to me and I'll like you. Don't think your better than me because you read the bible and I'll like you. He has acres of land so he isn't right next to his neighbors. The closest ones are Mormon but he likes them a lot. Nice people.
I use to work with a bunch of people from Evans & Sutherland who were from Salt Lake. They worked on a project I worked on with IBM. They were all Mormons. Very nice people. I wouldn't have know they were Mormon unless someone told me. The huge families made me suspect it though.
MikeQ:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 22, 2007, 11:10:59 pm ---
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--- 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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I talked to John. He said Coral Gables is nice and is where the University is. However, it is expensive. He live 40 mile outside of downtown Miami and he says it takes an hour to make the commute.
He said the best thing to do would be to look for apartments and rental property that fits your $$ level and then email him the location. He can tell you how good/bad the area is.
I'll PM his email to you.
shmokes:
Thanks. Thanks. One thousand times thanks.
That is an awesome resource. My wife is going to be crazy excited when she finds out that we'll have that option. We've been looking at places quite a bit, but mostly to get an idea of prices and just out of excitement, etc. We are planning to move by July 1st if she hasn't got a job, but she is applying for jobs now. If something came through before then she would move earlier (I'm pretty much locked in until July 1st).
Thanks again.
MikeQ:
PM Sent.
You probably already have seen this but I thought I'd pass it along anyway.
http://www.sa.miami.edu/off-campus-services/off-campus-housing/
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