This is an extremely misleading chart that combines the 2008 pre-crash clerkship data with the 2009 post-crash data for NLJ250. As a result the NYC biglaw feeder schools (Columbia, NYU, Chicago, Penn, Cornell) all take a huge hit in terms of NLJ placement from their 2008 numbers but there is no data to see whether those students who were left out fled to clerkships in the aftermath of the tightened job market. I know for instance that this past year was the best ever for NYU in terms of clerkship placement and I suspect the same increase could be seen in the other schools.fortissimo wrote:NLJ and Article III Clerkships
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 1&t=108528
1. Stanford - 77.1%
2. Yale - 72.1%
3. Harvard - 65.7%
4. Virginia - 65.2%
5. Michigan - 64.9%
6. Columbia - 64.0%
7. Chicago - 63.1%
8. Northwestern - 62.7%
9. Penn - 61.7%
10. Duke - 61.5%
11. Berkeley - 58.1%
12. NYU - 57.4%
13. Vanderbilt - 55.0%
14. Cornell - 52.4%
15. Georgetown - 48.4%
16. Texas - 47.5%
17. USC - 47.2%
18. UCLA - 41.9%
19. Boston College - 38.0%
20. Notre Dame - 37.8%
I'm not necessarily saying that Fortissimo is wrong about Gtown (especially looking at its historic placement percentages) but I'm just pointing out that this chart may be deceiving because it is combining two sets of data from two different years.