Current Fordham 1L Taking Questions
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:26 pm
Trying to stay distracted to avoid thinking about my exams and first semester grades. Ask away and I’ll do my best to answer!
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How do you feel going to a school that costs at sticker over 300k but only places less than 30% of grads into biglaw jobs?Legallylawyer2020 wrote:Trying to stay distracted to avoid thinking about my exams and first semester grades. Ask away and I’ll do my best to answer!
Roughly 40% go to big law and over 40% get big Law or a clerkship. Your point remains, I get that. I can’t speak for my classmates paying sticker, but I made the right choice for me.How do you feel going to a school that costs at sticker over 300k but only places less than 30% of grads into biglaw jobs?
A lot of my classmates live in fordham housing. Many others live on the upper west side or the upper east side. They use brokers or streeteasy.FN-2187 wrote:Where do people find housing/live?
Legallylawyer2020 wrote:A lot of my classmates live in fordham housing. Many others live on the upper west side or the upper east side. They use brokers or streeteasy.FN-2187 wrote:Where do people find housing/live?
Not to be picky, but the data on LST shows 28% biglaw and less than 5% clerkships for both state and federal. Maybe the LST data is old, but the combined difference of 10% or so is a big deal.Legallylawyer2020 wrote:Roughly 40% go to big law and over 40% get big Law or a clerkship. Your point remains, I get that. I can’t speak for my classmates paying sticker, but I made the right choice for me.How do you feel going to a school that costs at sticker over 300k but only places less than 30% of grads into biglaw jobs?
That list is absolute crap.doc b wrote:https://www.lawcrossing.com/article/900 ... g-Law-Job/
Not sure if Vault is more accurate than TLS, but...
Legallylawyer2020 wrote:A lot of my classmates live in fordham housing. Many others live on the upper west side or the upper east side. They use brokers or streeteasy.FN-2187 wrote:Where do people find housing/live?
I know males that signed up for Fordham housing well after the deadline and they all got Fordham housing. I know several females that live in fordham housing too. I think if you want it you’ll get it.Barack O'Drama wrote:Legallylawyer2020 wrote:A lot of my classmates live in fordham housing. Many others live on the upper west side or the upper east side. They use brokers or streeteasy.FN-2187 wrote:Where do people find housing/live?
How hard is the Fordham housing to get? Are there usually available options or do they fill up super quick?
How do you like Fordham so far? How are the people?
Thank you for your answers!Legallylawyer2020 wrote:I know males that signed up for Fordham housing well after the deadline and they all got Fordham housing. I know several females that live in fordham housing too. I think if you want it you’ll get it.Barack O'Drama wrote:Legallylawyer2020 wrote:A lot of my classmates live in fordham housing. Many others live on the upper west side or the upper east side. They use brokers or streeteasy.FN-2187 wrote:Where do people find housing/live?
How hard is the Fordham housing to get? Are there usually available options or do they fill up super quick?
How do you like Fordham so far? How are the people?
I like it a lot! I don’t know if it’s Fordham I like or law school in general but I genuinely enjoyed first semester (exams were brutal but that’s everywhere). I loved the classes. The people are great. I had amazing professors. One of my professors literally wrote the contracts book, my civil procedure professor was a Supreme Court clerk and is just insanely intelligent, and my criminal law professor was a genuinely good person and knows his material very very well.
I want to do litigation. I really don’t want to do transactional work. I want to go to a firm, preferably Big Law, but that’s obviously contingent on grades. Litigation for big law is smaller and not as popular (at least at Fordham) so I’ll need to figure that out for OCI, but Fordham has a great career office and my professors have all been very helpful too.Barack O'Drama wrote:Thank you for your answers!Legallylawyer2020 wrote:I know males that signed up for Fordham housing well after the deadline and they all got Fordham housing. I know several females that live in fordham housing too. I think if you want it you’ll get it.Barack O'Drama wrote:Legallylawyer2020 wrote:A lot of my classmates live in fordham housing. Many others live on the upper west side or the upper east side. They use brokers or streeteasy.FN-2187 wrote:Where do people find housing/live?
How hard is the Fordham housing to get? Are there usually available options or do they fill up super quick?
How do you like Fordham so far? How are the people?
I like it a lot! I don’t know if it’s Fordham I like or law school in general but I genuinely enjoyed first semester (exams were brutal but that’s everywhere). I loved the classes. The people are great. I had amazing professors. One of my professors literally wrote the contracts book, my civil procedure professor was a Supreme Court clerk and is just insanely intelligent, and my criminal law professor was a genuinely good person and knows his material very very well.
I really like Fordham and it's BL placement seems really great. I'm happy to hear you're enjoying it
Do you plan on doing BL or something else?
Not that I know of. I’ll ask around but I’m almost positive that they don’t cover housing for anyone.gonavy! wrote:Legallylawyer2020 wrote:A lot of my classmates live in fordham housing. Many others live on the upper west side or the upper east side. They use brokers or streeteasy.FN-2187 wrote:Where do people find housing/live?
Do you know of anyone that's in fordham grad housing on scholarship? That is, they get their housing paid for?
So how are they with aid?? I hear they're super stingy - did you have a successful negotiation? Also, are any of your classmates from New York and did any of them choose to stay at home while going to school?Legallylawyer2020 wrote:Roughly 40% go to big law and over 40% get big Law or a clerkship. Your point remains, I get that. I can’t speak for my classmates paying sticker, but I made the right choice for me.
I successfully negotiated with Fordham, as did several of my classmates. I was happy with the aid I was offered.AvatarMeelo wrote:So how are they with aid?? I hear they're super stingy - did you have a successful negotiation? Also, are any of your classmates from New York and did any of them choose to stay at home while going to school?Legallylawyer2020 wrote:Roughly 40% go to big law and over 40% get big Law or a clerkship. Your point remains, I get that. I can’t speak for my classmates paying sticker, but I made the right choice for me.
Lol @ all those idiots who chose to go to Yale, Stanford, Duke, U Chicago, or Berkeley over Fordham.doc b wrote:https://www.lawcrossing.com/article/900 ... g-Law-Job/
Not sure if Vault is more accurate than TLS, but...
I’ll graduate Fordham debt free- so it was an easy decision for me. I completely understand the wariness about the school and stats for those paying sticker or close to it.PeanutsNJam wrote:Although the people ragging on OP for going to Fordham are going overboard. ~40% biglaw + fedclerk is not bad if you're not paying sticker. Those are T20 employment stats, and if you can live at home to minimize costs, Fordham isn't a bad choice at all.
PeanutsNJam wrote:Although the people ragging on OP for going to Fordham are going overboard.
Do you know when grades generally start rolling out? I vaguely remember seeing something about professors needing to have them in by January 12th but I can’t seem to find wherever it is I saw or heard that. Also have a professor next semester that emailed yesterday and he said grades are coming in “the next week or so”. Just trying to figure out when I should start checking for them.Bird_Lawyerings wrote:Current 2L here also willing to answer questions
Thanks. My last final was the 20th and my second was the 18th so I wasn’t expecting them before the University reopens on the 2nd. Can grades be posted when the university is closed? Here’s hoping the grade for the class whose final was the 13th is posted this coming week!MurdockLLP wrote:Fordham 3L here. Grades have been rolling in since Dec. 20. Deadline is the 12th, but professors have gone over.
Most of us check our grades once or twice a day on my.fordham.
Hey! I had another question. As an AA URM w/ a ~3.9 gpa what LSAT score would get me admitted? What LSAT score would I likely need to get some $$?Legallylawyer2020 wrote:Trying to stay distracted to avoid thinking about my exams and first semester grades. Ask away and I’ll do my best to answer!