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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts) Wed Mar 8, 2017, 04:43 PM Mar 2017

Elite law schools are tough to get into, but what if you're Tiffany Trump?

Updated: March 8, 2017 — 9:15 AM EST

by Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post

Tiffany Trump wants to go to law school.

The president's younger daughter graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May and has apparently set her sights on becoming a lawyer. She has taken the law school admission test and toured three of the top-ranked law schools in the country — Harvard, Columbia and New York University.

If she gets in, the 23-year-old will join the very short list of presidential children who attended law school while their fathers were serving in the White House. She's certainly the only one with a father who has on various occasions called federal judges, including Chief Justice John Roberts, "disgraceful," "so-called," "a hater" and "so political."

The prospect of a Trump at one of these elite universities has provoked curiosity, envy and debate on law school blogs and forums.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/Elite-law-schools-are-tough-to-get-into-but-what-if-youre-Tiffany-Trump.html

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Elite law schools are tough to get into, but what if you're Tiffany Trump? (Original Post) BeckyDem Mar 2017 OP

I figure acceptance into an Ivy League school is a given. The struggle to graduate is my issue. no_hypocrisy Mar 2017 #1

All good points. I never could picture GW Bush doing well at Yale and Harvard even though it BeckyDem Mar 2017 #2

no_hypocrisy

(46,150 posts)

1. I figure acceptance into an Ivy League school is a given. The struggle to graduate is my issue.

Reply to BeckyDem (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 05:29 PM

Mar 2017

I'm a law school graduate. I had to work very hard to get in and harder to graduate.

I wonder even though exams are given anonymously, if a celebrity law student were to fail even one class (it can happen; I did!), would s/he get a free pass and be allowed to graduate. I failed torts (4 credits) my first semester and my GPA fell to D-minus and I had to do some fast talking to convince a panel of law professors to give me another chance. Somehow I can see a free pass for another student with connections, which bothers me to no extent.

And on top of it all, someone like that may never practice law for a single day after graduation.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)

2. All good points. I never could picture GW Bush doing well at Yale and Harvard even though it