Law Schools
Website Uses Student E-Mail Spam to Rank Top Party Law Schools
Posted May 12, 2009 9:07 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The Website SubtleDig has named Arizona State University College of Law the top party school, mainly based on a mass e-mail sent to law students.
The e-mail asked law students about their general happiness, how often they went out, their drug and alcohol consumption, and their dating success, SubtleDig explains. The answers accounted for 90 percent of the total score. The other 10 percent was based on the amount of bars and liquor stores within a mile radius of the law school.
“Though these rankings pages purport to rank the ‘party-ness’ of the top 102 law schools, they might better be described as ‘quality-of-life’ rankings,” the blog says. “Why the misnomer? Sensationalism mainly.”
The blog has analyzed the data and tapped these law schools as the top five for partying:
1) Arizona State.
2) Tulane University.
3) Seattle University.
4) A tie: Florida State and the University of Arizona.
Above the Law noted the survey and comments: “This list seems totally appropriate given the state of the economy. There's no point in going to law school if you're looking for an actual job. Might as well pick a school where you can have some fun for three years while you wait out the market crisis.”
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Comments
Patrick H
May 15, 2009 7:04 AM CST
I sure wish I had spend law school enjoying myself. Instead, I worked myself sick to graduate summa cum laude into a job market that closely resembles a desert. At least I’ve been offered my old job back—working part time as a gas station attendant. Oh well, such is life.
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JME
May 15, 2009 8:40 AM CST
because of my age (started law school at 50), I knew working my butt off to graduate high in the class would accomplish nothing. I gave law school 8 to 10 hours per day, as I would a job, then went home to my family. I did things in my church and community, went solo on graduation, and the business is growing. I have student loans, of course, but started the business without any business loans, so have no debt there. It took six months for the firm to pay for itsellf that month, I had some basic family support for each of the early months, and it is paying for itself now. Soon, I will be able to start taking money home to the family. I don’t take my work home, and I don’t work more than 40 hours per week.
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NWP
May 15, 2009 9:57 AM CST
Damn, JME….that sounds beautiful! I’m a 2L at FSU (tied for 5th party law school!!) and I dream of 40 hrs per week. Glad the business is growing. What practice area(s) are you focusing on?
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mamiejane
May 15, 2009 10:07 AM CST
These rankings are highly suspect given that they ranked BYU as a party school above the University of Utah and American University’s Washington School of Law among others. I guess it all depends on the definition of “party” for the students at any given school.
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B. McLeod
May 15, 2009 11:41 AM CST
Well, these students are fortunate that, after a ten-year absence, Ian MacLeod’s “Isle of Skye” 8-year old blended scotch is returning to U.S. markets.
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ASU LAW 07
May 15, 2009 2:59 PM CST
As an ASU Law grad, I don’t think this survey is accurate. I found the classes engaging and challenging. Between classes, law clinics, work, and studying, there wasn’t much time for “partying.”
Furthermore, calling ASU Law a party school can affect how someone looks at my J.D.
I worked very hard for it. It isn’t fair for anyone to judge the quality of my education based on some bogus spam email.
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DAJ
May 15, 2009 4:29 PM CST
ASU grad. I suggest you look for work in the government or a big corporation, or perhaps get your CPA and work in that field. Actually representing requires a sense of perspective, as well as a sense of humor.
Anyway, the only time your education is looked at, as far as I have been able to determine, is your first job, and even then other job experience or background may carry more weight.
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