i am currently studying in jindal global law school, i am willing to give clat-2014,
is it worth giving exam and going for NLUs, Please Suggest.
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AnonymousLLB6 Dec 2013, 14:45
If better job prospects are a criteria, then you must. Your CLAT-Score (provided that you are reasonably prepared to give the CLAT-Exam) can be taken as an indicator of your legal-acumen and likely prospects in the industry. If you really have it in you, then you will surely make it into any one of the many NLU’s (which are mushrooming all over the country). These private universities should not be trusted implicitly. They are, by and large, money making machines.
Here is some insider info - In a casual chat I had with one of the more acclaimed Jindal Law Professors a year ago on the quality of students and their prospects - here is what he had to say - mostly ‘rich and dumb kids’ who are going with a wave and do not even know why they wish to pursue a career in law - not very encouraging words !
The real + Side to joining private univs, like Amity, Symbi,etc. is this - they are a lot more liberal with giving marks. This considerably brightens your chances for getting into one of ‘the better international universities’ for an LLM (where even above average grads from govt univs that take in 70-90 percenters don’t get in)
AnonymousLLB7 Dec 2013, 06:56
Hey,
Guy above is stupid.
Try and take all the opportunities that Jindal is throwing at you. They’re good at debating and picking up in ADR and Mooting too. As for career prospects, if you’ve spent one year here already, and you(think you)‘re smart, and if you would rate 8 out of 10 professors as above average in your head, stick to jindal. Thats better than/(confusing-close to) all other national law schools in India barring one.
And grow and ego and think bigger than a job man, think how much you can learn here, how many things you hate about the place (and whether they make you work harder or the opposite) and make a subjective! decision.
Trust me, no matter what you choose, its going to be just that, subjective. Because you have to be predictable to the core sort of person to know the think you could want to/and would pull off in the next four years, and maybe once you start thinking along that line, you would actually think more like free will than determinism.
Also, someone told me campus norms are strict (that person could be wrong), but thats a good thing, too many decent people in national law schools are busy boozing and blaming it on the system.
Source - Im in 5th year, in the 4th best (India-today absolutelycrazy ranking system based) *national* law school, and I have visited, and known people from almost all of the colleges you’re okay with going to, and also Jindal.
And if you think you’re nothing special to do something outstanding at Jindal (because, well damn its no NLS I can’t be smart!), sure go ahead, give this (aptitude+cram up 10 magazines supercombo!) test with 2 tries and more than an year of preparation, pamper yourself.
And when you get to NLS, wear that hoodie with pride my boy, you’ve earned it.
AnonymousLLB7 Dec 2013, 07:01
There’s a typo up there. I forget where. Also, joining Symbi or amity. Okay I know I called the guy above me stupid, but this is really really really really really (I cheated, I copied the first 2 really’s and then felt bad) stupid.
AnonymousLLB7 Dec 2013, 19:23
If you are able to get into NLS, NALSAR or NLUD, there is no point in missing such an opportunity.
AnonymousLLB23 Dec 2013, 20:23
Take it from a Jindal kid.
I’m in the 5th year at Jindal.
When I was in my first year, my rank was 700 in CLAT, so I missed an NUJS spot (NRI - Sponsorship List) and skipped Patiala, Lucknow, Gandhinagar and Symbi /9all for various reasons). I decided to take a gamble and come to Jindal. It was the first year of the University and nothing was ready. I thought, let me give it a sem, I will decide to give CLAT again otherwise. I gave it a sem, loved it, and decided not to give CLAT again. Today, I look back at my five years, I’ve learned a lot, lived a lot. I’m extremely happy about my future prospects as well. I also had to work a lot for that of course.
What I am trying to say here is- it is okay to be skeptical. It is okay to be unsure. If you think in your head that there are things you might be unhappy with the place for, it is alright to feel so. Different places are for different people. A place which is awesome for one might not be so great for another. It depends on your best fit. But also you have to be sure that you are giving your best for the place to give you its best. Also, among other things possibly, very realistically, what *I should be sleeping right now* has not thought of, while giving you some profound, sleepy advice is that it you may think that you are paying way too much for the place. That would depend on expectations. Or perhaps you cannot fit in.
All are valid reasons. Which is why a good thing to do is what my other classmates did back in our first year. Where i decided that I will not give CLAT again,they decided to take a shot and see. One kid landed nowhere better and stayed. Another landed NUJS and was overjoyed. But after reflecting at the year spent at Jindal, he took a very hard decision of not paying the deposit, and letting go of his CLAT seat. Today he is as happy as ever. But perhaps if you would have been that kid you would have taken another decision.
Being a Jindal kid through and through, I could tell you a load of things. But this is your decision, not mine, and certainly no anyone else’s. Therefore, I leave you with these parting words from the very wise Dumbledore, “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”.
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If better job prospects are a criteria, then you must. Your CLAT-Score (provided that you are reasonably prepared to give the CLAT-Exam) can be taken as an indicator of your legal-acumen and likely prospects in the industry. If you really have it in you, then you will surely make it into any one of the many NLU’s (which are mushrooming all over the country). These private universities should not be trusted implicitly. They are, by and large, money making machines.
Here is some insider info - In a casual chat I had with one of the more acclaimed Jindal Law Professors a year ago on the quality of students and their prospects - here is what he had to say - mostly ‘rich and dumb kids’ who are going with a wave and do not even know why they wish to pursue a career in law - not very encouraging words !
The real + Side to joining private univs, like Amity, Symbi,etc. is this - they are a lot more liberal with giving marks. This considerably brightens your chances for getting into one of ‘the better international universities’ for an LLM (where even above average grads from govt univs that take in 70-90 percenters don’t get in)
Hey,
Guy above is stupid.
Try and take all the opportunities that Jindal is throwing at you. They’re good at debating and picking up in ADR and Mooting too. As for career prospects, if you’ve spent one year here already, and you(think you)‘re smart, and if you would rate 8 out of 10 professors as above average in your head, stick to jindal. Thats better than/(confusing-close to) all other national law schools in India barring one.
And grow and ego and think bigger than a job man, think how much you can learn here, how many things you hate about the place (and whether they make you work harder or the opposite) and make a subjective! decision.
Trust me, no matter what you choose, its going to be just that, subjective. Because you have to be predictable to the core sort of person to know the think you could want to/and would pull off in the next four years, and maybe once you start thinking along that line, you would actually think more like free will than determinism.
Also, someone told me campus norms are strict (that person could be wrong), but thats a good thing, too many decent people in national law schools are busy boozing and blaming it on the system.
Source - Im in 5th year, in the 4th best (India-today absolutelycrazy ranking system based) *national* law school, and I have visited, and known people from almost all of the colleges you’re okay with going to, and also Jindal.
And if you think you’re nothing special to do something outstanding at Jindal (because, well damn its no NLS I can’t be smart!), sure go ahead, give this (aptitude+cram up 10 magazines supercombo!) test with 2 tries and more than an year of preparation, pamper yourself.
And when you get to NLS, wear that hoodie with pride my boy, you’ve earned it.
There’s a typo up there. I forget where. Also, joining Symbi or amity. Okay I know I called the guy above me stupid, but this is really really really really really (I cheated, I copied the first 2 really’s and then felt bad) stupid.
If you are able to get into NLS, NALSAR or NLUD, there is no point in missing such an opportunity.
Take it from a Jindal kid.
I’m in the 5th year at Jindal.
When I was in my first year, my rank was 700 in CLAT, so I missed an NUJS spot (NRI - Sponsorship List) and skipped Patiala, Lucknow, Gandhinagar and Symbi /9all for various reasons). I decided to take a gamble and come to Jindal. It was the first year of the University and nothing was ready. I thought, let me give it a sem, I will decide to give CLAT again otherwise. I gave it a sem, loved it, and decided not to give CLAT again. Today, I look back at my five years, I’ve learned a lot, lived a lot. I’m extremely happy about my future prospects as well. I also had to work a lot for that of course.
What I am trying to say here is- it is okay to be skeptical. It is okay to be unsure. If you think in your head that there are things you might be unhappy with the place for, it is alright to feel so. Different places are for different people. A place which is awesome for one might not be so great for another. It depends on your best fit. But also you have to be sure that you are giving your best for the place to give you its best. Also, among other things possibly, very realistically, what *I should be sleeping right now* has not thought of, while giving you some profound, sleepy advice is that it you may think that you are paying way too much for the place. That would depend on expectations. Or perhaps you cannot fit in.
All are valid reasons. Which is why a good thing to do is what my other classmates did back in our first year. Where i decided that I will not give CLAT again,they decided to take a shot and see. One kid landed nowhere better and stayed. Another landed NUJS and was overjoyed. But after reflecting at the year spent at Jindal, he took a very hard decision of not paying the deposit, and letting go of his CLAT seat. Today he is as happy as ever. But perhaps if you would have been that kid you would have taken another decision.
Being a Jindal kid through and through, I could tell you a load of things. But this is your decision, not mine, and certainly no anyone else’s. Therefore, I leave you with these parting words from the very wise Dumbledore, “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”.