Comments on: Law School Prep Courses

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:02:04 +0000

You all missed the point of the prep courses. Those people were the only people who taught me the proper way to brief cases, outline, choose among hornbooks, and prepare for and author an exam. They used 1L topics as illustrations since those were the classes we were going to take, but the whole point of the course was to teach us to see the forest through the trees. The goal of these courses isn’t to give you a substantive edge, if you’re that kind of gunner you can just pre-read hornbooks or something. The point is they teach you how to do law school, wtf is an outline, a case brief, and how are exams different from cold calls.

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:04:59 +0000

There’s a hilarious Barbri parody video on YouTube where the teacher keeps singing acronyms for laws and such.
There are longer classes like The Center for Legal studies which has a 7 week course. By the way, Law Preview provides data- albeit biased data- about students consistently scoring in the top 20% or so (you were saying you couldn’t find any data- sorry to not be exact statistics guy ^^ ). Probably the motivation factor but if the data’s accurate, it seems to show that it does’t hurt people (yeh I know correlation doesn’t necessitate causation) . They also have hundreds of testimonials so you could read those. Number 3 doesn’t make any sense- just sayin.

By: Nazli

Nazli — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:34:07 +0000

Are Barbri prep. courses available in Oman?

By: Uhu

Uhu — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:43:11 +0000

What about prep courses that last 8 weeks in the summer time?

By: Paul Gowder

Paul Gowder — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:38:20 +0000

Except, of course, listening to a bunch of economics majors who think the whole world is the nail for their hammer.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:43:46 +0000

Even if people don’t take a prep class, they should be strongly encouraged to read some brief treatment of economic thought (and maybe statistics) before the 1L year. Nothing is more agonizing than listening to a bunch of English majors in a torts class who don’t understand anything about incentives or probabilities.

By: theimbroglio

theimbroglio — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:01:11 +0000

I won’t hear anything bad about Barbri, the most rewarding law education experience I’ve ever had.

Um, really?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:01:47 +0000

there’s a lot of money to be made on fear and anxiety.

By: Laz

Laz — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:49:18 +0000

I’d be willing to bet that there is in fact a negative correlation between taking a law school prep course and getting top grades (at least at tier 1 schools). Plus, I can’t imagine a more effective way to annoy your classmates than revealing that, yes, you already know what promissory estoppel is because you studied it in your prep course.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:18:33 +0000

“That said, a prep course can’t hurt you.”

Oh, it definitely can hurt you if it lulls you into a false sense of security, or teaches you methods that aren’t applicable to your particular school/professor.