<p>TLS is informative, but the characteristic you enjoy is what makes it less of an ideal place to seek advice. The people are very optimistic with very little to show for it. That’s mostly because of the moderating team. It’s generally frowned upon, there, to be overly negative about a school. If someone is thinking about attending the South Texas College of Law, a poster who degrades the school and laments its terrible job prospects is viewed as a ■■■■■ and is banned. The posts that actually do tend to make it through are filtered. They tend to be positive. They tend to mislead.</p>
<p>The Legal Employment forum is more realistic, so if you read that you’ll realize that the advice there is not different from here. </p>
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<p>I have gone through the process of admissions. In fact, I’m a 3L at a T5 school now, have interviewed with the big firms and worked with a top one last summer. My advice is based on that experience. What’s lacking is that I’m not yet a full-time attorney, but you don’t find very many of those on TLS either. In fact, I think there are more practicing attorneys who post here. And there are wayyyy more on xo, which might be a little too pessimistic for your precious, uninformed ears.</p>