Berkeley vs. Northwestern + $135,000?? Forum

[CanadianWolf]

Northwestern University School of Law is the clear choice in my opinion. On another thread I posted the results from the February, 2010 National Law Journal survey of recent hires by the nation's largest 250 law firms. The survey results are:
1) Northwestern Univ. School of Law
2) Columbia Law School
3) Stanford Law School
4) Chicago Law School
5) Virginia Law School
6) Michigan Law School
7) Penn Law School
NYU School of Law
9) UCal-Berkeley School of Law
10) Duke Law School

Yale had a high percentage of its law graduates select judicial clerkships so Yale Law School did not finish in the top ten for this survey.
The survey results were released on Feb. 22 or 24, 2010.

[stratocophic]

ITT: Slowpoke strikes again!

Pictured: rare Canadian Slowpoke

[big_blue79]

Unless Northwestern raped your children it is TCR.

See you in Chicago.

What if Northwestern raped one child, and left another one a nice box of candy?

[Z3RO]

Northwestern. There should be a poll; it would be like 75:2

[rapstar]

how are you smart enought to recieve a full ride from a T10 but not smart enough to choose??

go to berkeley. california needs more people like you.

[calicocat]

Unless Northwestern raped your children it is TCR.

See you in Chicago.

LOL

*continues stalking DF*

[bayvcroberts]

this one's so easy i'd be blown away if you chose the former. go NU and don't look back. if you were talking about cls, then maybe you'd give it a second thought, but not berkeley...

[elmagic]

I don't know OP, Northwestern is the clear choice given the circumstances, but have you tried using that money to leverage some money from Berkeley? From what I understand Berkeley has a matching program which I think Northwestern is a part of. Although they probably wont give you 135k they might throw some money at you to make things interesting. Just saying, doesn't hurt to try.

[extempore88]

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[elmagic]

I don't know OP, Northwestern is the clear choice given the circumstances, but have you tried using that money to leverage some money from Berkeley? From what I understand Berkeley has a matching program which I think Northwestern is a part of. Although they probably wont give you 135k they might throw some money at you to make things interesting. Just saying, doesn't hurt to try.

Unfortunately for the OP, Berkeley will only entertain competing offers from the T14-Northwester.

Students admitted to Berkeley Law that have also received a scholarship offer from one of the 12 law schools listed below can apply for a Berkeley Law Matching Scholarship.

Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
New York University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Yale University

See: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/6957.htm

Go to Northwestern. Congratulations!

Ha! There you go OP, Northwestern it is. Weird that they leave Northwestern off that list though...

[JordynAsh]

Unless Northwestern raped your children it is TCR.

See you in Chicago.

Graphic, but oh so true.

[09042014]

Unless Northwestern raped your children it is TCR.

See you in Chicago.

What if Northwestern raped one child, and left another one a nice box of candy?

Cadbury Creme Eggs?

[JordynAsh]

Unless Northwestern raped your children it is TCR.

See you in Chicago.

What if Northwestern raped one child, and left another one a nice box of candy?

Cadbury Creme Eggs?

Reese's eggs or Berkeley, IMO.

[rayiner]

I don't know OP, Northwestern is the clear choice given the circumstances, but have you tried using that money to leverage some money from Berkeley? From what I understand Berkeley has a matching program which I think Northwestern is a part of. Although they probably wont give you 135k they might throw some money at you to make things interesting. Just saying, doesn't hurt to try.

Unfortunately for the OP, Berkeley will only entertain competing offers from the T14-Northwester.

Students admitted to Berkeley Law that have also received a scholarship offer from one of the 12 law schools listed below can apply for a Berkeley Law Matching Scholarship.

Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
New York University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Yale University

See: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/6957.htm

Go to Northwestern. Congratulations!

Ha! There you go OP, Northwestern it is. Weird that they leave Northwestern off that list though...

It's epic Cornell trolling.

[Borhas]

Berkeley, USNWR is going to switch to rankings based on alphabetical order

[fortissimo]

this one's so easy i'd be blown away if you chose the former. go NU and don't look back. if you were talking about cls, then maybe you'd give it a second thought, but not berkeley...

...it's a pretty stupid thread, no doubt, but i think it'd be absolutely crazy to take (even) Columbia at sticker over 135k at NU considering median at Columbia is striking out ite. (A CLS 2L posted that you need to be top 1/3 at CLS this past OCI to land NYC biglaw. This sounds similar to schools ranked lower than it so maybe firms would rather pull from the top 1/3 at every high ranked school rather than dig deeper at certain schools.)