The Leif Law Blog

Recent Posts from The Leif Law Blog

• Shutting this one down; will continue to keep up the personal blog.

  I think the pursuit of law school has made for an interesting story to tell. I’ve enjoyed writing about it at least, and I get enough hits per post to keep me blogging about it.…

• Update – one month until quitting day.

  This being May 18th, I’ve got exactly one month to go before my last day of work. I’ve been lacking for content to post about lately. I largely dealt with a lot of moving stuff…

• Kind of a funny story from before I committed to IU.

  I’ve always subscribed to the theory that you shouldn’t put anything online that you’re not comfortable with anyone in the world seeing. As such, I always make sure to be careful about what I post…

• I sure am lucky I didn’t completely confine my search to the west.

  I didn’t bother posting about it, but UNLV and San Diego waitlisted me a couple of weeks ago. Now I received a waitlist offer from Santa Clara also, making a whopping seven waitlist offers that schools…

• Happy to be escaping the isolated corner.

  I love Washington state. It will always be home to me, regardless of exactly how long I stay away once I move. With that said, I don’t love how isolated it is from most major…

• Top 10%

  Indiana is a great school. From what I can gather, someone can be around the GPA median and have some good career options, in the immediate area if nothing else. However, this isn’t Yale, Harvard…

• Kind of a nice footnote about the ranking bump

  I was looking into what statistic caused IU’s ranking to go up, since any number of things can make that happen. The one that jumps off the page is a pretty significant decrease in acceptance…

• So, when push came to shove…

  It certainly involved some luck, but at the end of the process I ended up being accepted by, and attending, the school tied for highest-ranked among all that I applied to. In case you ever…

• Sheesh, really?

  That post with the new USNWR law school rankings has been up for all of 12 hours, and it’s easily my most viewed post ever that I’ve written on either blog? The obsession with rankings…

• Nice! Indiana makes a big jump in the newest rankings.

  Yes, I used an exclamation mark. My law school, which was ranked 36th nationally when I committed to it, has jumped all the way up to #23 in the newest U.S. News and World Report…