Berkeley Professional Track 2014
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I can tell you:
1) the admission process is the same for both tracks but there are two different committee evaluating the applications. I think the Professional Track selection takes more in consideration previous working experiences. I met people who were admitted to the Traditional but not the Professional and viceversa. I was admitted to both and I chose the Professional Track;
2) Admission offers for Traditional Track come out in March. If you are admitted to both you can simply transfer the deposit you paid for the Professional Track to the Traditional Track.
I can tell you:
1) the admission process is the same for both tracks but there are two different committee evaluating the applications. I think the Professional Track selection takes more in consideration previous working experiences. I met people who were admitted to the Traditional but not the Professional and viceversa. I was admitted to both and I chose the Professional Track;
2) Admission offers for Traditional Track come out in March. If you are admitted to both you can simply transfer the deposit you paid for the Professional Track to the Traditional Track.
Posted Dec 19, 2013 14:30
Posted Dec 19, 2013 16:16
I will try to be objective as... I simply had the best time of my life. Hehehe.
The program is really really good and there is no difference under this point of view with the Traditional Track. Yes of course, the number of courses available is reduced but the faculty teaching is the same available during the academic year. And the courses offered are the one that usually people expect to tak during an LLM.
Beside that the university stuff is really helpfull and keen also in listening for suggestion about new courses to offer the following summer or to remove.
What I liked most is the structure of the program that is more "professional".
You have the same number of credits, number of classes and hours in class as the Traditional Track but the program is splitted in two summers and last little less, seven months instead of eight.
Therefore is more intese:
you have class on a same subject for three weeks straight everyday Monday to Friday for three hours in the morning. Then one or two days for reviewing and then exam. One day off and then you start a new subject for three more weeks (quarter).
During the first year (the first summer) you also have class for two hours in the afternoon twice or three times a week on another subject.
Meanwhile in the Traditional Track you study four of five subjects at the time for four months, having class two, three or four times per week evertime on a different subject (sometimes you may have classes on the same subject twice a week) and each class usually is no longer then two hours.
Therefore, I liked more the Professional Track because you focus more on a subject and you have the chance to connect better with a professor you see every day then one you see once or twice a week.
Class experience may be also better because you do not have class with JDs but only with your fellow LLMs that are usually experienced lawyers and dibate in class is much more interesting. Some professors also confessed they loved teaching in the Professional Track because of that.
With the Traditional Track you have on the other side the chance of partecipate in journals (even if is difficult for LLM student to obtain a sit) and in clinics. You live a more truly US university experience, you see how the campus life is during fall and spring. But this meas also that is really crowded.
During summer you feel instead like owing Berkeley, campus community is reduced and it is easier to go to a pub with all your classmate.
The Professional Track is more intense also on the lifestyle point of view. As long as you feel like every summer is a short time, you feel like leaving it all. Wake up-class-lunch break-study in the library-sport-dinner-hang out. Repeat.
Hope I explained and answered your question.
Let me know if you need some clarifications.
I will try to be objective as... I simply had the best time of my life. Hehehe.
The program is really really good and there is no difference under this point of view with the Traditional Track. Yes of course, the number of courses available is reduced but the faculty teaching is the same available during the academic year. And the courses offered are the one that usually people expect to tak during an LLM.
Beside that the university stuff is really helpfull and keen also in listening for suggestion about new courses to offer the following summer or to remove.
What I liked most is the structure of the program that is more "professional".
You have the same number of credits, number of classes and hours in class as the Traditional Track but the program is splitted in two summers and last little less, seven months instead of eight.
Therefore is more intese:
you have class on a same subject for three weeks straight everyday Monday to Friday for three hours in the morning. Then one or two days for reviewing and then exam. One day off and then you start a new subject for three more weeks (quarter).
During the first year (the first summer) you also have class for two hours in the afternoon twice or three times a week on another subject.
Meanwhile in the Traditional Track you study four of five subjects at the time for four months, having class two, three or four times per week evertime on a different subject (sometimes you may have classes on the same subject twice a week) and each class usually is no longer then two hours.
Therefore, I liked more the Professional Track because you focus more on a subject and you have the chance to connect better with a professor you see every day then one you see once or twice a week.
Class experience may be also better because you do not have class with JDs but only with your fellow LLMs that are usually experienced lawyers and dibate in class is much more interesting. Some professors also confessed they loved teaching in the Professional Track because of that.
With the Traditional Track you have on the other side the chance of partecipate in journals (even if is difficult for LLM student to obtain a sit) and in clinics. You live a more truly US university experience, you see how the campus life is during fall and spring. But this meas also that is really crowded.
During summer you feel instead like owing Berkeley, campus community is reduced and it is easier to go to a pub with all your classmate.
The Professional Track is more intense also on the lifestyle point of view. As long as you feel like every summer is a short time, you feel like leaving it all. Wake up-class-lunch break-study in the library-sport-dinner-hang out. Repeat.
Hope I explained and answered your question.
Let me know if you need some clarifications.
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Posted Jan 21, 2014 00:05
He is referring to the app tracker on this site, you can check it out here: http://www.llm-guide.com/apptracker
Good luck!
He is referring to the app tracker on this site, you can check it out here: http://www.llm-guide.com/apptracker
Good luck!
Posted Jan 21, 2014 00:59
Posted Jan 21, 2014 21:37
http://www.llm-guide.com/university/4/university-of-california-berkeley-law-boalt-hall/apptracker
http://www.llm-guide.com/university/4/university-of-california-berkeley-law-boalt-hall/apptracker
Posted Jan 22, 2014 01:24
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