- U. of Chicago-Pritzker - U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Southern Illinois U. ? I'm in my first year of law school at Yale and I realized I had all of the pre-reqs (and GPA, MCAT scores, took the LSAT, etc.) to be eligible for a joint JD/MD Program. It's been 6 years since I've lived in Chicago, and I gotta say, I miss my hometown. My family wants me here, so I'm leaning preference towards the state. Fortunately, The state of Illinois has 3 schools (out of 21 or so in the country) which offers this program. Anyone here an alum (or currently enrolled) at any of the schools above? Never been to any so I want to get a feel for those places. I'm also looking at staying @ Yale (but transferring to the program), Baylor, Vanderbilt, Mayo MS, and Duke, but like I said, I miss the south side.
Campus is very big, sometimes easy to get lost. People are usually really nice (although there are assholes) so campus is great. Im not a big party person, but the bars down here can be pretty fun. I would say majority of professors ive had were really good. Really open to provide help if needed, there are some that are bad but I feel like majority of profs are good. EDIT: Go South Siders! lol
I run 100m in 10.3 seconds. It's nowhere near olympic level, but it allowed me to get a scholarship. And I was all-state in football, track, and volleyball. But yeah, paid thousands of dollars on tutors and studied my ass off, so now I got a chance at a JD/MD. I miss Chicago.
So I've pretty much marked Southern Illinois off my list and U. of Chicago-Pritzker & U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the two in the state i'm looking at. Hopefully one of you guys have someone who goes to those schools.
I live in Virginia... I'm kidding though. I don't want to meet any of your creeps -- Except for Mamba. We work together.
I'm a really nice guy once you get to know me. And seriously, you work with Mamba? Is it true he's a nightrider? Is that why he removed 'black' from his name?
Northwestern is probably worth a look. Also, there are lots of good schools relatively close but not in-state. Michigan State, U Wisconsin, Notre Dame and U Michigan all have well respected legal programs and are within a few hours drive of Chicago. In fact, several of them are just as close a drive as SIU. As a practical matter, you're leaving a whole lot on the table if you walk away from Yale. Be very sure you want to do that. Another thing to consider is to think about what you really want to do. As background, I went to MSU for undergrad, and then got a nearly full ride scholarship to Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing. I wasn't super wild about law school in the first place, but since I had to pay next to nothing, my girlfriend wasn't finished with school, and all my friends were still around, I hung around and went there. As it turns out, what I mostly realized was I really didn't like law school. Still, I salvaged quite a bit of value out of it wen I went back to grad school a couple years later to study econ at George Mason. I got lots of credits to transfer in, and I liked econ a heck of a lot more than I liked law, even though, once again, I more or less lucked into a very good situation (my company basically paid my way to a very good program).
Northwestern (as far as I know) doesn't have a joint JD/MD program. Otherwise it would have been on my list. I also went to Harvard for undergrad before I got into Yale for law, so it's not like my undergrad was at a small school. And I'm seriously considering transferring to Yale's JD/MD program, but most of the people I know there have 3.98 with 3 years medical experience. I got a 3.92 with no medical experience. Right now, my list is ordered at: Yale, Uof Chicago, Duke, UPenn, Vanderbilt. I'm trying to get my GPA up to a 3.98 by year's end along with some ridiculous LORs to get into Yale's JD/MD. But like I said, coming back home is appealing.
And honestly, i'm not quite sure what it is exactly I want to do. But when you have a chance at two degrees like a JD/MD, i'm going for it to be safe. I'm on scholarship so money is not an issue.
GMU? Are you in that area? Quite close to me. How did you like the school? I've only had the chance to briefly visit the campus.
I lived in NoVA for over 8 years but we moved to Indianapolis a little over 3 years ago. I loved GMU. Especially for economics, it was really top notch. At the time, they had two guys who won Nobel prizes, and they've got a couple more who either should win or might by the time they're done. The school itself is nothing super great to look at, but like most schools, the people and the experience of working through and learning stuff is what's fun. If you're into that sort of thing.
