Lies they tell you at NYU Law September 8, 2010
Posted by invisiblemannakedcity in Uncategorized.Tags: 2L-Oh-Well, Bad idea, Interviews
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I got the idea for this post from Similarly Situated, a very great blog about two friends (one at Yale Law, one at Harvard Law) who both should be in their 3L year now. I hope they’ll forgive me for borrowing their ideas.
- NYU is the ‘laid back’ law school. There seems to be some stereotype in people’s heads that NYU is filled with a bunch of hipsters, who just got off the train from Williamsburg. That we just happened to be so tricky that we aced the LSAT, and now sit around all day drinking and talking about law. Now we do have people (like IDWSJ) who despite themselves happen to be becoming increasingly more hipsterish by the day. However, this has very little to do with the work ethic. People here are intense, they go 100% for everything, everyday, even the most minor things. This isn’t to say people are over-competitive, everyone remains amicable, but don’t think that means people don’t work their ass off everyday they’re here in the pursuit of what will be (more than likely) a B (with the potential for an up or down modifier).
- NYU is for public interest, Columbia is for Corporate. NYU is a great place to go if you want to get more exposure to public interest. I think we have one of the greatest public interest programs that any school could possibly desire, but don’t let that fool you; NYU is still a very corporate oriented school. If I weren’t one of the people frantically running from callback interview-to-callback interview, I’d be distressed to see how many people came in wanting to do something public interest related, but recanted when they heard of how much money their friends at firms the previous summer.
Now what is one true thing I can say about NYU? Well, I can say that maybe we aren’t the most prestigious, or even the most successful students. However, I think I speak for the majority of students here when I say “we have more fun in law school than most.”
Any other thoughts about what lies you hear in law school?
is it my v-neck shirts?