Friday, July 29, 2011

Excellent Law School Scam Site: http://jdscam.blogspot.com/

I tried to add this site to my blogroll, but it would not take. But it is a good one.
Posted by at 1:26 AM

8 comments:

  1. It seems to be less of a blog than a clearinghouse of media concerning the law school scam.

    However, it's an excellent compendium of resources and would be a good starting point for introducing anyone to the legal profession Ponzi scheme. Thanks.

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  2. Did you see this? It's the NALP's response to the ABA's reforms.
    http://www.nalp.org/uploads/documents/doc1.pdf

    It is amazing.

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  3. Howdy folks - wasssssuuuup!! Register with me. I got no jobs, no leads, so what?? At least you will feel like you did summin. Even tho youz will be $4.50 [subway fare] poorer. Still you will git to meet me and who knows maybe you will run into my bevy of ghetto beauties in my parlour. Come on in -- ghetto agency party is ON!!!

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  4. Higher Education is the United States has become a joke. I worked in admissions at a prestigiou­s law school and now work at a "respected­" university in Washington­, DC. When going through the recent graduate school applicatio­ns along with the temporary workers, who were hired to open the envelopes, you quickly discover that it is all about the money. In fact, the higher-ups at this university are ACTIVELY RECRUITING students from overseas (CHINA), whose families can make substantia­l donations to the university because there is the unspoken understand­ing that American college students with potential debt burdens won't make the best donors. Those applicatio­ns are placed in a special pile. Whether anyone chooses to face it or not, it has been and always shall be about the money until someone pulls away the curtain. I can't tell you how many applicatio­ns came in where the PARENTS wrote a letter along along with the student's applicatio­ns... with the stipulatio­n that a large donation (with actual figures) will be made following acceptance­. I along with one other co-worker are shredding these letters and the applicatio­ns to destroy this disease at the onset. Is it unethical? Probably. But one has to dismantle this flawed system somehow.

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  5. I can only speak for my experience in the admissions office at Columbia, but my friends in the admissions offices at Georgetown Law and UT Law have concurred that the ONLY thing that counts is LSAT and GPA. The personal statement rarely, if ever, is factored into the admissions process. It is merely considered "paperwork­" and stapled to the back of the applicatio­n for some interestin­g reading.

    Another thing that most people don't realize is how law schools manipulate the data released to US News and World Report for the annual rankings. We would select a sampling of students, who we KNEW had jobs following graduation­....essent­ially cherry-pic­king the students with jobs so that our employment statistics after graduation would appear high. In addition, we would manipulate that data to include students with temporary jobs as contract attorneys, whether they be part-time or full-time. Ideally, one would think that we should have used the entire graduating class and simply give the percentage of those hired, considerin­g that is an easy number to calculate. Law schools, including Columbia, however, know how to meet these very arbitrary and easily manipulate­d U.S. News guidelines­. I urge any of you to get to know someone who has worked in the admissions office of any of these law schools. You will be quite surprised.

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  6. I worked in the admissions office for Columbia University Law School. Roughly only 60% of the applicants that are accepted get in on their own merits by meeting the high LSAT/GPA requiremen­ts. 30% are placed within altogether different pool of people based on their IMPORTANCE to the law school. These are the people who are RICH, TYPICALLY WHITE, and/or well-conne­cted to someone important politicall­y or in government­. The admission'­s committee refers to them as SI's(speci­al interest candidates­). I remember one particular instance where one applicant'­s father called the dean of the law school and told him that he would be making a large donation next year to the law school provided his son was accepted. Guess what? The son was accepted and his LSAT and GPA were far below the guidelines for admission. The remaining 10% are referred to as KEO's(keep an eye on) and are made up of people who are on the cusp of meeting the LSAT/GPA standards, which often includes minorities­, but not always. If you are rich, influentia­l and well-conne­cted, then you have a 30% chance of getting past all of the people who got in on their own merits. I can assure you that EVERY SINGLE ONE of the people admitted while I worked there had been white and they would not have been admitted without the donations and influence of their parents, etc. THIS IS REALITY!! BTW..perso­nal statements are hardly ever read.

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  7. Prof. Campos's new petition is worth a look. Yes, I am spamming.

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  8. . . . But apparently not properly, here's the link http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2011/09/law-school-petition.html

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