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Originally posted by kddani
Has it always been this way? Or do you think it's a recent push to improve their ranking?
Law school administrators will bitch and moan about how the US News and World Report rankings, etc. don't mean anything, but yet they still care like hell about improving their standing.
My class last year had a lot more pressure put on us the first year, because the bar passage rate had dipped slightly.
Also, last year we were ranked #51. They want to push us into the top tier (top 50) so they've been cracking down right and left.
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No, they've always required this extra semester.
They have recently shoved a dual degree program down our throats. We will graduate with a JD/BCL, which is a Bachelor of Civil Law. So, unless you want to practice in a civil law jurisdiction like parts of Europe or South America, its a big F-ing waste of time.
We recently went up to the BOTTOM of the 2nd tier. They did this by reducing their attrition rate (read: flunk out rate) from about 50% in the 60s-80s to about 15-20% now, and by having actual admissions standards. It used to be anyone who wanted in could get in, but then most of them would be flunked out.
Our chancellor, former chancellor of Vandy Law is a moron. He says stuff like "Yale doesn't require certain classes past the first year" then he adds on more required classes. Um, if the top schools are doing it, why are WE doing the opposite?
The entire place is a ship of fools. Biggest mistake of my life.
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