Post Your Excuse Here

Graduate School Law School
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<p>I browsed some threads here and it seems we have a large population of whiners on these boards (cough transfers2010, Dem Bones). I felt I have an obligation to the board to develop a list of excuses as to why you may be denied law school admission to your top choices. Tell me which ones you are going to use.</p>

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<li><p>I was born the wrong color. The fact that my race has consistently had greater opportunities throughout history indicates that this should continue to be the case. </p></li>
<li><p>I went to an undergrad school that is too highly ranked. Nevermind the main reason I decided to attend this school was to inflate my ego (Imagine telling my friends or even strangers that I attend a mediocre state school, well they would think I was a stupid loser!). I could obviously get straight As at every school in the nation ranked lower than mine, but I CHOSE to challenge myself. </p></li>
<li><p>Even though I spent thousands of dollars on test prep courses and tutoring, I still had to do work on my own to get a good score. That’s not fair. In this country, doing well on an exam should be as simple as buying the score.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s the Obama administraton’s fault. Obama wouldn’t even have gone to Harvard Law School if he weren’t black.</p></li>
<li><p>My personal statement, titled “Why I want to be a lawyer” was the best bs I could have come up with! I could not have shot the bull better if I tried. Why could the admissions teams not see how fantastic I was at making up ridiculous things to make myself appear to be a modest, hardworking individual?</p></li>
<li><p>I would have got a better LSAT score if the lighting was better.</p></li>
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<p>That’s a good start, please feel free to continue.</p>

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<p>ha, not bad</p>

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<p>This is a terrible thread.</p>

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<p>K, never said I wasn’t going to get into law school for any reason. I’m sure I have a good shot at UCLA, USC, and other good law schools in my top choices. GPA is fine, LSAT is fine. Just said a lot of URMs get a leg up, and many of them really get into a school they really wouldn’t have if not for being a URM. Many of them earn their way just fine.</p>

<p>Also, I just said it’s a stupid idea to attend a lower ranked school just because you’ll have a better shot at having a higher GPA (which I’m pretty sure is what you did, and why you are posting this thread. Offended much?). People should just choose the best possible institution available to them. I think most people would agree with that idea.</p>

<p>Never complained about Obama either, I voted for him. Going to vote for him again most likely.</p>

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<p>I don’t know how much this goes on in this thread (I’m new to this thread) but in a lot of other threads I have seen things like:
-I didn’t care in high school and now I feel like the world should forgive me for my lack of effort
-and also “I had things going on at the time which were more important than my future”</p>

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<p>Just trying to add some humor into a not so funny topic… I was being satirical.</p>

<p>Thanks for your contributions bored299, good stuff.</p>