To Transfer or Not to Transfer Forum

[dakatz]

As a top 5% student, you are set based on what your goals are. You don't spend tens of thousands extra just to "keep options open" or any other indeterminate reason. Sure, if you had a concrete reason (i.e. I want to work for a V10 firm, or I want a prestigious clerkship), then a transfer up may be warranted. But where you are right now, you will likely have great opportunities with any firm in the secondary market you seek. So I don't see what the point would be.

[CanadianWolf]

Because you seem unhappy at Notre Dame & because you have done well during your first year of law school, you owe it to yourself to submit transfer applications to Stanford, Yale & Chicago, in my opinion. (As well as to the others in the Top 6).

[thebookcollector]

Because you seem unhappy at Notre Dame & because you have done well during your first year of law school, you owe it to yourself to submit transfer applications to Stanford, Yale & Chicago, in my opinion. (As well as to the others in the Top 6).

Conservative school in a crappy city? Was it that obvious that it was ND? LOL.

[dresden doll]

How unhappy are you? Because I don't see another reason why you should transfer.

[sundance95]

Because you seem unhappy at Notre Dame & because you have done well during your first year of law school, you owe it to yourself to submit transfer applications to Stanford, Yale & Chicago, in my opinion. (As well as to the others in the Top 6).

Conservative school in a crappy city? Was it that obvious that it was ND? LOL.

Haha it really was. Think about how few T25s could be described as 'conservative'. Anyway, apply away, why not? You've already saved on the first 1/3 of your total COA if you succeed.

[CanadianWolf]

A factor to consider is the liklihood of getting published in the Notre Dame Law Review if you remain. With faculty support & a business oriented perspective, publishing an article or two in the Notre Dame Law Review might create some interesting opportunities. Even so, in light of your dissatisfaction with your environment, a degree from Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Harvard or Columbia should open up lots of additional doors. Apply & see what happens. Notre Dame might fight to keep you.

[uzpakalis]

Because you seem unhappy at Notre Dame & because you have done well during your first year of law school, you owe it to yourself to submit transfer applications to Stanford, Yale & Chicago, in my opinion. (As well as to the others in the Top 6).

Conservative school in a crappy city? Was it that obvious that it was ND? LOL.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE transfer out of ND so it will be easier for me to transfer in. I will gladly take your spot. Good luck to you at your new school.

Sincerely,

A T2 student

[flcath]

I don't see why a CCN transfer would be such a bad thing. I think that the benefits of leaving LR at ND in favor of CCN start to get a little, uh, abstract, but if you don't like it here...

You're the accountant, though. You know how debt works.

Frankly at top 5% you should've skipped the ND write-on and done it at a (write-on friendly) target school; top 15 kids at ND are pure grade-on.

[XxSpyKEx]

I'd apply to HYS and that would be about it, if I were you.