Getting into a specific section Forum

[TTH]

Quick 0L question: Is there any way as an incoming 1L to improve my chances for getting into a particular section/taking a particular professor for a class?

[apper123]

0L gunning ITT

[TTH]

0L gunning ITT

Yeah, but you can't fault me for wanting to take a class from the guy who wrote the supplement.

[caoyun]

Quick 0L question: Is there any way as an incoming 1L to improve my chances for getting into a particular section/taking a particular professor for a class?

I would assume it depends on the school. GULC, for example, has its Section 3 which has a different curriculum. You can request that section.

Penn, meanwhile, makes it abundantly clear that it will not accept requests for a particular section.

I suppose if you could show a sufficiently persuasive reason (for example, the Section 1 classes conflict with [insert important shit here], while Section 2 classes do not), but I doubt wanting a particular professor is good enough.

Anyway, I think schools try and give you a good mix of good professors and not-so-good professors. So even if you don't get the one you're gunning for, you'll probably get another bigger name at some point.

[A'nold]

Pretty much every single person from my section wishes we were in the other section and the other section laughs at us b/c they love their section. Luck of the draw.

[TTH]

D'oh.

I'm probably going to OSU and was hoping I could be sure I would take Dressler for crim. Guess I'll see if I'm lucky.

[Grad_Student]

Dressler is the bane of my existence

[vanwinkle]

If it was explained to me right, the law school here doesn't even assign students to sections themselves. They let the university registrar do that without their involvement at all.