these are not anecdotes.
http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/cl ... ol=fordham
http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot. ... hools.html

30% biglaw placement at best will stil leave 70% with no reasonable way to pay back 200k+ in loans. Fordham's estimated cost is $268,000. 21 % of Fordham grads were underemployed, another 19% were employed in JD preferred jobs. 68% were employed in bar required positions, 14 % were school funded. Take out the school funding from the 68% employment score and Fordham is barely putting over 50% of its grads in bar required jobs. In the fall of 2008, 80-90% of Fordham perspective students were hoping to land biglaw. In the spring of 2011 only 19% realized that reality.

Oh cool more of answer23's blatant anti-Fordham trolling.

Newsflash, little breh, this is true of like, 95% of all law schools. The odds just get shittier the further down you go.

I said all schools outside the t14 not just Fordham. The question was about Fordham I answered about Fordham. But I'm guessing you didn't read that part.

I scanned because you're a terrible poaster, but you seem to come out of the woodwork to troll anything related to Fordham.

I’ve answered questions about Hofstra, St. John’s, Brooklyn, Fordham and Cardozo. Those are the schools I’m familiar with. edited-- don't want to give too much info.

Your actual logic here is flawed....

First of all saying that 70% have no reasonable way to pay back 200+ K in loans is flawed in that your assumption here is that the entire 70% took out that much in loans. There are in fact many ways students can use to lower the borrowed cost of LS including but not limited to, working full time and attending LS part time, living at home to save CoL, merit scholarships, need based scholarships, savings and the GI Bill plus the yellow ribbon program. The likelihood that all 70% of students that did not get big-law had that much debt is flawed.....

Second, your assumption that 80-90% of students starting Fordham wanted big law to begin with seems a little out of the blue to me. Do you have a survey that I have not seen that is statistically viable that shows this 80-90% or are you just taking a WAG. Of the three people in the thread planning to attend Fordham this fall there is one that wants big law, one that wants PI and one that is unknown. Granted that is not a significant enough number to draw any useful statistical conclusions from but 80-90% seems a bit on the high side considering there are a lot of students that actually do not want big-law....

Lastly, 68%, mathematically speaking, is a lot more than "barely" over 50%; in fact it is 36% more than 50% or 72 of the ~400 FT students graduating from Fordham Law the year you are referencing. Of course barely is not actually an objective term and 90% might be barely more than 50% for some people......

Just a little food for thought about statistical accuracy.....

your math doesn't add up
21% underemployed + 19% JD preferred + 68% bar required adds up to 108%
Off the top of my head, I recall 2010 had 7% unemployed and 14% in school funded positions (the merits of which are debatable - I've seen good arguments for and against)

I recall that in 2008, the year you are quoting, 44% were making scale, which is not bad at all; as for your comment that 80-90% want biglaw, I doubt that's true for any school
I don't have access to statistics right now, but they can easily be found.

As an aside, following an email exchange with law school transparency, I've come to the conclusion that while I trust their data is correct, their perspective is not, so I take everything on their website with a grain of salt (remember, there are many ways of interpreting the same data)

There's a difference between underemployed and unemployed. JD preffered overlaps with underemployed I think. 70% was a very generous leeway. All those other points are warranted. There's no way to find out for sure. If it is beneficial to Fordham then they should release more data that shows how well their grads are doing. I'm speculating at least 80% if not all Fordham students bid on biglaw oci. They have those details. They should release what the percentage of students who bid on biglaw firms were. My guess is that it's very high. Not everyone who bid biglaw at Fordham will get it. A huge percentage will have debt that they cannot service. 68% ft legal work is bad. Minus the 14% school funded jobs you're looking at 54% ft legal work. That's barely more than half.