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and if yes then just for law school or even 10th 12th grade?
Source: Spoken to SB about this.
ALC Pune is a wannabe AIL. Don't go there. No history, no recognition and no placements.
Nothing even comes close
But you need to have LLM for that.
I was allotted NLUO initially during clat and then got HNLU later. So here’s my 2 cents.
On location: I don’t think either place really makes a difference. I would say arguably raipur is a better place to go since it a state capital and you have directe flights to pretty much any part of the country available. Cuttack does not offer the same. Neither are metro cities so the bar remains low.
On mooting: Students from both colleges have thrived in moots on the national and international level.
On Domicile: Lots of people are critical of HNLU’s 50% domicile saying that it dilutes competition. It really doesn’t, people are still super competitive and the kids from domicile often dominate rank lists and placements.
On Alumni: HNLU being an older institution has a much more robust almuni base with several T1 partners, magic circle associates, a few partners at international firms. We have several oxbridge, ivy league and t-20 LLMs too.
Placements: HNLU includes only corp/in house placements in its placement data, whereas NLUO includes anything and everything under the sun as a placement from chambers to assessment internships. HNLU also boasts overall better quality of organisations where students are placed.
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There is no need to spend money on any books, you'll find everything on these two websites, and if you don't on either of these two then your college library will definitely have. Chill out, don't panic spend, most of us have graduated without touching a book in five years
2. Again, classic sign of people who suffer from the afliction of envy: Of course some of the responses are classist - take the IB school one or the lower socioeconomic background ones, for example. If they (and/or their kids) believe that, they are in for a big surprise. Western kids from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds are often as hungry for success (in a good way) as their Indian counterparts. Even the accommodation at foreign unis is not necessarily great. As for grades/placement? Don't get me started! Your typical London universities' law schools kids (KCL/UCL/LSE/QM/SOAS types) are so obssessed with magic circle/biglaw jobs that a few months there and you would want to throw yourself off a building just to get a chance to avoid hearing the names Links and Kirkland. Plus, those unis can be stingy as fuck when it comes to grading students' academic performance. So total misunderstanding and idiocy in the case of such people. Why do you allow such people to live rent free in your head? Are you really equating all NLS alumni who think this way to such people? And why so restrictive? If NLSIU or other NLU alumni want their kids doing something other than law, what's your problem? And frankly, why is it any of your damn business?
3. Regarding that Ashoka + law abroad after that. Alright, a law degree from many universities abroad is a great thing to be doing. And yes, there are genuinely good arguments to be made about why a non-law degree might be a good thing to do first, before going in for law. Arguments which have been made quite forcefully by Lord Sumption, the former judge on the UK Supreme Court (as an example). However, I don't think Ashoka is the best thing to be doing in such cases. Do a St. Stephens or something like that. People who give this response or the socioeconomic background one have, it is true, been led astray by the trappings of elitism and lost to some extent an ability to detect bullshit.
4. Have you ever thought that they might have pride in their NLU tag for the thing that it gave them - what they needed to fulfil the ambition of making better lives for their kids than what their parents gave them? Pride in an institution or tag doesn't necessarily mean slavish loyalty to it. It is a social construct, like anything else. Alright: does pride in an Eton or Harrow tag mean that an Eton or Harrow alumni is almost bound to send his son there? (Don't jump on me for the gendered language, they are exclusively boys schools in England.) Yes, it probably does. Does that mean the NLU tag has to be like that? That's a question on which you can have your opinions. But my question would be: why necessarily does this uniquely Indian tag have to be like an Eton/Harrow or Oxbridge tag? Why can't it be a tag celebrating higher social mobility - people taking a degree at university which helps them move up the income bracket? Why can't we celebrate that tag in its own right? If we are to be different and unique from the rest of the world, why can't we embrace our tag for what it is, instead of letting our envy guide us into the trap of thinking that what we have should be constructed/designed in the way other countries have their stuff?
Essentially, most of my questions can be summarised in three: why are you putting people down? Why do you care so much? And why are you letting the idiots among such people live rent-free in your head?
- “Our son/daughter doesn’t want to study law. We have also encouraged him/her to study STEM or finance abroad, as there are more opportunities globally.”
Kids are opinionated enough to figure out what they like. Maybe they don't care about CLAT, but care about something else. Don't see why this response is judge-worthy.
1. Yes
2. Its easily available. However, not everyone tries it. You can choose to have or not have it.
3. No
4. Yes
you wear some fuckall kurta, dance on the dj night, see batchmates performing/do shitty performances yourself, and go back to your room
i hate you for even asking this question, you have too much power over me
sincerely,
first-gen lawyer who works hard and knows how to adapt.
Within offices/colleges as well, Kannadigas do not welcome outsiders within their friends circle and will always try to dominate the spaces. I have worked in Delhi NCR as well, and the situation is much better. For context, my mother tongue is neither Hindi nor Kannada. I can speak broken Hindi and can mostly understand it while I can't speak or understand Kannada.
Please use your God given hands to search the World Wide Web.
2. Why do you have to be such a terrible person?
3. You do know that trauma is blind? It doesn't discriminate based on privilege of any sort? Or are you so determined to put others down to advance your victim complex that you have yourself become blind to this truth to which your eyes were previously open?
Great for rich people like us.
HNLU may not have the 50 placements but the quality of their placements is arguably much better and the placement reports mainly include firms and in house roles as placements…