HBCU Law School

[Love_Spell_6]

Originally posted by Illest Zeta on the Planet
Lovespell...I take it you attended? When did you graduate?

No ma'm.... but i have very close friends that attend the school..and they tell any and everyone NOT to go to that school and give thorough reasons why...

[Professor]

I'm sorry to learn of stuff about NCCU. I attended grad school there but in another dept. Let me ask this, in my program many of the professors teach from an afrocentric view. Is this the same at NCCU or other black schools.

[SKEEphistAKAte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
I could go on and on about that hell hole..but I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy go to that law school.

Lovespell...I take it you attended? When did you graduate?

No ma'm....


*smirk*

[SKEEphistAKAte]

Originally posted by Professor
I'm sorry to learn of stuff about NCCU. I attended grad school there but in another dept. Let me ask this, in my program many of the professors teach from an afrocentric view. Is this the same at NCCU or other black schools.

FAMU's Psychology Department, of which I am a product has a reputation of being very afrocentric, even militant. I loved it. I'm glad I went there. Of course, I can only speak affirmatively for FAMU because I actually attended the school.

[Love_Spell_6]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
I could go on and on about that hell hole..but I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy go to that law school.

Lovespell...I take it you attended? When did you graduate?

No ma'm....


*smirk*

was that necessary?? you're already in my fan club so calm down..

[Bamboozled]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
I could go on and on about that hell hole..but I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy go to that law school.

Lovespell...I take it you attended? When did you graduate?

No ma'm....


*smirk*

CTFU. Soror, thanks for saying what everyone else was thinking.

[SKEEphistAKAte]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
you're already in my fan club so calm down.

Delusions of grandeur:

The noun "delusions of grandeur" has 1 sense in WordNet.

Def.: a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

[Love_Spell_6]

it amazes me how you "ladies" bamboozled and skeephisticate manage to find threads i post in and start posting abot ME instead of the topic. You all really need to step off whatever Love Spell fetish ya have and stick to the topic in the thread.

Whats it like to be you? must suck LOL. Anyway, I'll not address you "ladies" anymore because your obsession with me is a bit amusing..i'll just sit back and laugh at ya

[Bamboozled]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
bamboozled and skeephisticate manage to find threads i post in...

*peeking head around corner* I could have sworn the letters on this door read Alpha Kappa Alpha. Did we really have to go far to find your post? You make it far too easy. Please note that I didn't post to you or specifically about you. I simply CTFU at my Soror's comment. Well, it WAS hilarious and everyone else WAS thinking the same thing. But yes, back to the topic at hand....

[Love_Spell_6]

Originally posted by Professor
I'm sorry to learn of stuff about NCCU. I attended grad school there but in another dept. Let me ask this, in my program many of the professors teach from an afrocentric view. Is this the same at NCCU or other black schools.

Professor,
What dept were you in? THe law school has a lot of white professors...and many of the black professors in my opinion try to put their "blackness" on the back burner..except for one lady.

[SKEEphistAKAte]

I could've sworn I posted in this thread prior to pointing out LoveSpell's idiocy. Not to mention the fact that I am, in fact, currently a Law Student---naw, those things couldn't be factors, I just follow lovespell around threads to pick on her. Sounds like delusion with a splash of paranoia to me. But I only have a degree in Psychology what do I know?

NuQueen: I considered the location of the school, it's US News ranking (this was most important to me), cost of attendance, their reputation regionally and nationally (which goes back to USNews rankings), and I also searched the net for any information on the schools I was interested in. A good site is Law School Discussion .
You can email me if you have other questions. I'm a 1L so I am not far removed from what you are experiencing.

[Exquisite5]

Here is something else to consider.

While the US News rankings are popular, they don't really mean much. The ABA does "Real World Rankings." Those rank the school based on factors that actually matter (not a reputation ranking) such as prestige of employers that recruit on campus, scholarship rate, % bar passage and % of grads employed 6 months after graduation.

In that poll, Howard (where I am a 2L) ranks 27th though we are only in the third tier of US News' reputation poll.

I ask this, what is more important to you? Being able to get a job at a top firm, or what US News thinks?

For me, the answer was easy and that is why though the administration of Howard bugs me at times I didn't transfer after my first year. There is something to be said for learning the law in a way that strives to create the lawyers that are the "social engineers" that Charles Hamilton Houston spoke about and not those that the are "parasites." Additionally, I like that I pay nothing to go to Howard (over 50% of the students receive some form of scholarship) and am still getting tons of interviews with top firms.

[SKEEphistAKAte]

A lot of people say that the USNews Rankings dont count, not you Exquisite, and that just simply is not true. If you are, like me, a student who would like to gain employment at a Top Firm making at least 6 figures, you either need to go to a Top USNews Ranked firm or graduate at the very top of your class. By definition there is a 90% chance that you will not graduate at what is considered the top of the class, so I say go to the highest ranked school you can get into. Many top firms ONLY recruit at those schools.
If Howard gets recruiters from top firms, great. Go for it. But don't listen to the "USNEWS rankings don't count" propaganda. Usually faculty from lower ranked schools say that.

[Phasad1913]

I just wanted to quicly pop back in to make an additional comment about the rankings. I hear what you're saying, skee, about the need to attend a highly ranked school, but I wanted to say that my school is not necessarily a top ranked school but there are certainly a large number of top firms that recruit at our school for a host of reasons. I agree that simply wading your way through law school would not get you a good position, but that is true whereever you go. If you are a studious person, you learn what your professors are there to teach you and you develop and exercise that drive to get that job you want, you will get it. The competition out there in the legal field is fierce under any circumstances and only those who get done what they need to get done, focus in on their work, study and pass the BAR will make it. I know plenty of alumni from TMSL who are prominent judges, firm partners, elected officials, etc. who are doing quite well, their law school's rank did not stop them. I have just as much drive and ambition as the next law student and with regard to friends of mine who are also in law school at this time, and at higher ranked schools than mine, because I know them from undergrad, etc., I know my characteristics as a student will afford me more opportunities then them based on what I know about them and the way they function in school.

I just had to comment on that because I hear statements like these all the time and they simply aren't true IN ALL CASES. My undergraduate institution is one of the highest ranked institutions in America and there were students who came out with no jobs and no idea what to do and supposedly, going to this school would make us shoe-ins for whatever it was we wanted to do. It just wasn't true then and it isn't true in law school. It's about the individual drive, who you know, and how diligently you seek out opportunities available to you when it comes to your career success.

[SKEEphistAKAte]

Phasad: I definitely agree with what you are saying. I di dnot mean to imply that if you go to a top tiered school that you are guaranteed a job at a top firm making big money. I just think that your chances are better if you do because MORE larger firms recruit there than anywhere else. I go to a tier 2 school and we have large firms recruit all of the time, but I know that we don't have as many large firms as say, a Harvard or a Yale, or any top 15 school for that matter.
The chances are better, by sheer mathematics, if you go to a higher tiered school.
And I definitely did not mean to say that top tiered schools are better. I love my school. My professors are cool, my classmates are cool, it is laidback, not one bit cutthroat..but I know that I may not have that experience at a school ranked higher on USNEWS. But would I trade in my seat at FSU for a seat at Duke or Harvard- hell yeah. I would be a fool if I didn't.
It just gets me when people say that USNEWS Rankings dont count. That is an outright lie. They do count. That doesn't mean you can't get a high paying job elsewhere. But in does count, and in my opinion it counts a whole lot- especially as far as your first job is concerned.