Boston University School of Law ?
The Princeton Review's guide to law schools rated BU as the "Most
Competitive" law school in the country. Is this rating justified? Is the
competition at BU so intense as to make it a miserable place to go to law
school? Also, Princeton Review's summary write up of the school suggested
that the facilities at BU are somewhat less than desireable.
From anyone who attends BU I would appreciate some feedback on the school.
How is the law library there (a facility I imagine law students have to
spend a lot of time in)? How about the other facilities?
I can't comment on BU specifically, but any law school with
a strong student body is going to be competitive.
Students don't show up at exams without having cracked a book--because
everyone knows that bad grades translate into poor employment prospects.
I think the difference really lies in whether the school generates a
sense of community so that people are inclined to study together. Some
schools are a lot better in this regard than others.
No law school is perfect. Basically every law school seems to
suffer from one or more of the following: bad building, bad library, bad
city, bad part of city, regionalism, placement problems, competition,
student-faculty tensions, faculty too old, faculty too young, faculty
too liberal, faculty too consertitive, bad relations with parent university,
financial problems etc, etc. The only law school that I don't personally
know has problems is Stanford, and if I knew more about it.....
NO. BU Law doesn't flunk anyone out. Some law schools
do flunk out a measurable percentage of their students. Cooley comes
to mind, thay make that quite clear in their catalog. Hard to think that
BU is more competitive than Cooley. Also, there is a connection between
grades and high powered placement at BU. The same thing is true at
any Law school in BU's general league, roughly ranks #20-50. Any school
in that region will have some competion. All of their students can
read and write and they all care about grades. Grades matter more at BU, BC,
Fordham, Hastings, George Washington, and the ilk more than they
matter at Yale, Stanford and Boalt. If you want to avoid most competition,
pick Yale over BU. Be warned, there is some competition at Yale.
Getting editorial spots on the Yale Law Journal and getting as many high
passes as possible is competitive....