Law Students

In this economy, you need an MBA

We tend to think B Schools are cooler than law schools because they all have their own names.  Our favorite JD/MBA catalogues the ways in which Darden beats the law school's little heiney.

So it's exam time, and maybe you're staying late the libs, the fishbowl, or just rocking the books at home. Do you ever have a moment where you think you hear laughing? Yeah, laughing. Or, like, the sing-song sounds of spring? The playful twitter of youth let loose to frolic in the sun?

Well I'm here to tell you that you're not hallucinating. Those sounds are coming from Darden, where exams are basically a joke. Even though first-years take five, four- to six-hour exams in five straight days, most students just punch them out in two hours and go golfing. Exams are like pre-vacation vacation. As long as your notes spreadsheet is good to go, you can't get worse than a B (the mean grade at Darden). There's a saying for the hard courses: "Draw a [decision] tree, get a B."

But you know what? Darden's awesome exams didn't even make the top five things that are better at Darden.  Click on to read my list in case exams have you reconsidering this whole "law" thing.

Full post as published by TJ's Double Play on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).