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The Stanford campus is 鈥渟prawling鈥 and 鈥渂eautiful,鈥 with 鈥渁cres of rolling green hills for hiking, and palm trees everywhere.鈥 鈥淭he law school is hideous from the outside but, inside, it鈥檚 quite nice.鈥 The library is a world-class research facility 鈥渁nd all law students have twenty-four-hour access to study there.鈥 鈥淚 can鈥檛 study in any other university library,鈥 admits a comfortable 1L, 鈥渂ecause I have become too accustomed to the law school鈥檚 Aeron chairs.鈥
A few students call Career Services 鈥渦nderwhelming,鈥 but 鈥減retty much everyone can get a firm job if they want one.鈥 They can get that job anywhere in the country, too. Less than 50 percent of all newly minted Stanford Law grads take jobs in California. Stanford is also 鈥渟eriously committed to public interest law,鈥 and the 鈥済reat loan repayment program鈥 here is arguably the best in the country. Also worth noting is the impressive historical fact that more than 100 Stanford law graduates have clerked for one of the Supreme Court Justices.
Of course, nothing is perfect, even at Stanford. Some students love the pass/fail grading system while others say it provides little incentive to work hard. Despite these complaints, though, students call Stanford 鈥渢he best law school west of the Appalachians,鈥 and they 鈥渉ave a hard time seeing why anyone would choose to go to law school anywhere else.鈥
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THE SCHOOLS 233 Certainly, 鈥測ou won鈥檛 have to contend with snow or gloomy weather鈥 at this school. 鈥淭he weather is perfect 90 percent of the time.鈥 Some students call Palo Alto 鈥渁 cultural wonderland鈥 that has everything you need including 鈥渋ncredibly nice鈥 graduate student housing located right next to the law school. Other students gripe, 鈥淟iving in Palo Alto is like living in a suburb, which to anyone who is coming from an urban area will be a shock.鈥 鈥淎 big percentage of Stanford students are married, or commute from San Francisco, so they have their own lives away from the school.鈥 Extracurricular activity is constant for everyone, though. 鈥淗aving the law school right in the middle of Silicon Valley allows for many practitioners, general counsels, venture capitalists,鈥 and the like to drop by. Student organizations are profuse. 鈥淓veryone at Stanford is president of a club, editor of a journal, director of a pro bono, and a board member of a society,鈥 claims a 2L. 鈥淪ocial events are plentiful,鈥 and they are 鈥渁lways a hoot.鈥 There is something of a fraternity-like culture if that鈥檚 what you are looking for, but it鈥檚 鈥渘ot [an] overwhelming scene,鈥 and we aren鈥檛 talking about people doing multiple keg stands. 鈥淵ou have to remember that everyone had to be pretty studious and dorky in order to get in here,鈥 says a 1L.
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