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toughchoice13

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BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by toughchoice13 » Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:54 am

Top 5% at BC/BU, over half scholarship, law review. Career goals: clerk then BigFed. Open to BigLaw, but not a primary goal.

I got into Columbia last week. Should I transfer or stay?

For what it's worth, I enjoy my current school, have solid connections with professors, and I only want to leave if the bump from a Columbia degree helps me in the short/long-term. I'm leaning toward staying, but am genuinely undecided.

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by mylifeis24 » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:03 pm

toughchoice13 wrote:Top 5% at BC/BU, over half scholarship, law review. Career goals: clerk then BigFed. Open to BigLaw, but not a primary goal.

I got into Columbia last week. Should I transfer or stay?

For what it's worth, I enjoy my current school, have solid connections with professors, and I only want to leave if the bump from a Columbia degree helps me in the short/long-term. I'm leaning toward staying, but am genuinely undecided.
CLS rising 2L here. Any money from CLS? We definitely place more in clerkships than BC/BU, but clerkships are a crapshoot. If you value the prestige and you think that the name brand would be helpful in getting gov jobs, then I would make the switch. We also have a great PI office (we call it social justice initiatives). Since most of CLS is biglaw focused, they are able to give out more individualized attention to those people that seek them out. If you do want to try your hand at Biglaw/EIP, then CLS is the obvious choice. Good luck!

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Clemenceau

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by Clemenceau » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:23 pm

BC actually beat cls in fed clerk % last year lol

Yeah yeah self selection whatever

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by CanadianWolf » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:32 pm

No reason to leave BC or BU with a top 5% rank & law review with a substantial scholarship.

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by TTtop13pct » Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:50 pm

top 5% is/was prob good for H. Too late now, I guess. Stay.

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iamgeorgebush

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by iamgeorgebush » Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:44 am

Where do you want to ultimately practice? If Boston, staying at BC/BU is probably credited. If New York, I'd say go with Columbia. In fact, if it's any market other than Boston, I'd say go with Columbia.

Also, would your school make you pay back your first year's scholarship if you left?

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by NoDayButToday » Tue Jul 14, 2015 9:54 am

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by fratstar1 » Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:27 am

NoDayButToday wrote:
iamgeorgebush wrote: Also, would your school make you pay back your first year's scholarship if you left?
Is that a thing?

Can't be.

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by CanadianWolf » Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:38 am

TLS posts within the past couple of years discussed this practice at some very low ranked no-name law schools.

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ndirish2010

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by ndirish2010 » Tue Jul 14, 2015 12:28 pm

I would stay.

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ManoftheHour

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by ManoftheHour » Tue Jul 14, 2015 12:45 pm

Did you try using the Columbia acceptance for more $$$ at your school?

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trebekismyhero

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by trebekismyhero » Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:04 pm

Stay, but ask for more money first

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trey ohh five

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by trey ohh five » Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:21 pm

NoDayButToday wrote:
iamgeorgebush wrote: Also, would your school make you pay back your first year's scholarship if you left?
Is that a thing?
At some schools it is.

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by jbagelboy » Tue Jul 14, 2015 2:12 pm

I would probably stay. Columbia is a great school but you have a lot going for you in your current position. Your options won't be that much better to justify the added debt.

If you didn't have a scholarship at your current school, I would have advised transferring though.

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ManoftheHour

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by ManoftheHour » Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:47 pm

trey ohh five wrote:
NoDayButToday wrote:
iamgeorgebush wrote: Also, would your school make you pay back your first year's scholarship if you left?
Is that a thing?
At some schools it is.
That's TTT as f$&@.

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Re: BC/BU to Columbia?

Post by kaiser » Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:52 pm

I was at BC/BU as a 1L and had done well on exams. I told myself that, if I made LR, I would just stay. I didn't make LR (plus my scholarship wasn't that big anyway), so I decided to transfer. But since you are in top 5%, and on LR (I was just outside top 10% and not on LR), I would have stayed.

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