Licking my wounds and my thoughts on transferring.

I got called on in Civil Procedure and it didn't go well. The professor asked me about a procedural step. I had it in my brief but I felt like I might have written it down wrong so I stumbled and didn't really regain any kind of momentum. Anyway, I got chewed out in front of the class. It seems a little gratuitous but whatever, I'm not going to dwell on it.

Grades come out Friday. I've overheard more than a few over-confident conversations about transferring. To transfer you need to be in the top 5-10%. That means you have to do better than 90-95% of the class. I don't know why people are counting their chickens before they're hatched. From what I've read, no one should count on transferring. There are a variety of reasons for people with high lsat scores to pick a t3 or t4 school: close to home, scholarship, etc... In order to transfer a person has to beat out these students and the rest of their class. Because the exams are graded on a curve, you have rock the exams harder than everyone else. In short: you have to be the Ted Nugent of law school to transfer.

It is important to be happy with your choice of law school and assume you're going to remain in your school and in the job markets it feeds into. In this case I'm happy with California Western (maybe grades will change my mind... but today I feel good. heh) and I'd be thrilled to have the opportunity practice law in San Diego. I love this place and I don't want to leave.