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Horchata wrote:
I think this is pretty solid advice: "If you want the best job on graduation period, then go to Cornell. If you want a job in SoCal after graduation, go to USC."

Curry wrote:

Horchata wrote:
I think this is pretty solid advice: "If you want the best job on graduation period, then go to Cornell. If you want a job in SoCal after graduation, go to USC."

Disagree.
If you want the best chance at a job by a fairly substantial margin, then go to Cornell. If all you care about is a slightly better chance at a job in SoCal, go to USC.

Hannibal wrote:

Curry wrote:

Horchata wrote:
I think this is pretty solid advice: "If you want the best job on graduation period, then go to Cornell. If you want a job in SoCal after graduation, go to USC."

Disagree.
If you want the best chance at a job by a fairly substantial margin, then go to Cornell. If all you care about is a slightly better chance at a job in SoCal, go to USC.

This is the exact same message but with a clear language bias towards Cornell.

Curry wrote: From the mouth of a hiring partner at White and Case who went to Berkeley: "Compared to NYU, Columbia, Mich, UVA, and obviously Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, Berkeley is TTT"

cornellbeez wrote:

Curry wrote: From the mouth of a hiring partner at White and Case who went to Berkeley: "Compared to NYU, Columbia, Mich, UVA, and obviously Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, Berkeley is TTT"

LA office? I met some interesting W&C partners from the NY office.

midwestrocks wrote:Odysseus is from Ithaca. He beat the Trojans.

Cornell ftw.

cornellbeez wrote:

BeenDidThat wrote:USC. Stay in Southern Cal, meet attorneys, go to mixers in LA to meet more attorneys, get a job, profit $$$$$.

0L foolishness.

Unless you are related to hiring partners or marrying one's child, "mixing" with attorneys won't get you a job.

I'd go to Cornell, because having a job outside of California > unemployed in CA. I think outside of IP, the CA legal market is going to decline even more in the coming years.

FlightoftheEarls wrote:Also worth considering is the fact that firms have cut down classes from 25 SAs to 12 SAs, and the brunt of this has frequently been born by great-but-not-exceptional (sorry, non-T14 seemed like a stupid descriptor) local schools like USC that place largely in their market. Whereas pre-ITE USC/UCLA might have accounted for 12-14 students, with 1-2 Loyola/Pepperdine and 9-12 T14ers, many of these firms have tried to keep ties with T14 schools and continued to hire 1-2 students at T14s where they normally recruit. It's much easier for firms to reduce 12-14 USC/UCLA students in a SA class down to 5-7 USC/UCLA students in order to maintain some relationship with these T14 schools. For this reason alone, a school that places in a wide spread of markets can be helpful, and a smaller class size may help as well.

Bumi wrote:I read some of the first page so I apologize if someone else brought this up, but seasonal affective disorder is a real thing to be aware of for anyone moving to a northern school from a sunny location. If you've only lived in southern california, it would really really suck to find out that you were affected by SAD when you are trying to gear up for your second semester of 1L. 90% of people probably think this post is stupid melodrama, but as someone who moved north for undergrad and who had problems with this, I can assure you that the 10% chance that this will affect you is worth thinking about.

danquayle wrote:All of my responses assumed staying in SoCal was your top priority. If you want the best job on graduation period, then go to Cornell. If you want a job in SoCal after graduation, go to USC.