What % drop out of 1L? Forum

[OnWisconsin]

Seconding that question. I'm a humanities major... if I don't do law school, there's NO backup plan. What are we even qualified to do?

Business, actually sales. On the road at least 4 days a week, horrible hours, mandatory hi fives and weak drinks with boss/coworkers for making quotas, find yourself using the term "cashing checks and breaking necks", golf with people you don't know or want to know, fratmosphere with a pay check, only more soul crushing.


But of course law will just be the same thing with a nicer suit and car...

[PoorOrpheus]

Attrition rates do not equal drop out rate. I would imagine that most of the Cornell people ended up transferring higher up in the T-14. No stats to back this up, just a hunch.

I checked the attrition vs. transfer-out rate at a few schools and it seems like you're right. Thanks for the correction.

[jetlagz28]

% you

[mrm2083]

Your post made me curious and so I did a cursory check of the attrition rate for 1Ls at some benchmark schools:

T14
Yale: 0 (...naturally.)
Harvard: 4 (0.7%)
Stanford: 1 (0.6%)
Columbia: 1 (0.3%)
NYU: 5 (1.1%)
U Chicago: 1 (.5%)
Penn: 0
Berkeley: 6 (2.2%)
Michicgan: 0
UVA: 0
Duke: 1 (.5%)
Northwestern: 0
Cornell: 14 (7.1%) WOW!
Georgetown: 3 (0.5%)

Tier 1
UCLA: 15 (4.6%)
BU: 14 (5.1%)
Notre Dame: 9 (5.1%)

Tier 2
Florida State: 8 (4.2%)
Georgia State: 23 (10.85)
Brooklyn: 36 (7.3%)

Unranked
Cooley: 576 (31.8%)

Are these last year's stats?

[keg411]

Seconding that question. I'm a humanities major... if I don't do law school, there's NO backup plan. What are we even qualified to do?

Business, actually sales. On the road at least 4 days a week, horrible hours, mandatory hi fives and weak drinks with boss/coworkers for making quotas, find yourself using the term "cashing checks and breaking necks", golf with people you don't know or want to know, fratmosphere with a pay check, only more soul crushing.


But of course law will just be the same thing with a nicer suit and car...

I was going to say advertising/marketing, but a lot of people leave those fields to go to law school .

[SaintClarence27]

Seconding that question. I'm a humanities major... if I don't do law school, there's NO backup plan. What are we even qualified to do?

Business, actually sales. On the road at least 4 days a week, horrible hours, mandatory hi fives and weak drinks with boss/coworkers for making quotas, find yourself using the term "cashing checks and breaking necks", golf with people you don't know or want to know, fratmosphere with a pay check, only more soul crushing.


But of course law will just be the same thing with a nicer suit and car...

And stiffer drinks.

[NU_Jet55]

[strike]Attrition rates do not equal drop out rate. I would imagine that most of the Cornell people ended up transferring higher up in the T-14. No stats to back this up, just a hunch.[/strike]

Fixt.