TTTT or San Fran? Forum

[stintez]

Today I was admitted to the part-time evening program at San Francisco. I've never been to San Francisco nor do I know anyone there or have any job prospects for the other portion of my life outside of school. I had a stellar GPA all through undergrad but bombed my LSAT, so, until now, I had only been offered admission to a local TTTT with a half-scholarship. I'm a ridiculously dedicated student. No matter where I go, I plan on becoming as involved as possible to get where I want to be.

Going to San Fran would mean a significant amount of debt and attending a school where I know no one in an area that I know nothing about other than that it has a high cost of living. However, I feel like this is at least a ranked option that would, ideally, offer me more options. Law is what I want to do with my life. I don't want a big law job. I'm perfectly happy with something in government or public interest. What do you think one should do in this situation? Should I at least deposit to have the benefit of having more time to consider the offer?

What is your GPA and LSAT score?

[NayBoer]

If you went to San Fran, you would at minimum be competing against, at a disadvantage, grads from Stanford, Berkeley, Hastings, Davis, and Santa Clara. You would be competing against, on a fairly level playing field, grads from McGeorge and Golden Gate.

Just wanted to point out the danger of over-ranking SCU. A lot of its advantage over USF is in IP. Their biglaw numbers are pretty close.

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/composite.pdf (page 2)

Golden Gate, on the other hand, is clearly worse than all those other schools.

[emilybeth]

If you went to San Fran, you would at minimum be competing against, at a disadvantage, grads from Stanford, Berkeley, Hastings, Davis, and Santa Clara. You would be competing against, on a fairly level playing field, grads from McGeorge and Golden Gate.

Just wanted to point out the danger of over-ranking SCU. A lot of its advantage over USF is in IP. Their biglaw numbers are pretty close.

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/composite.pdf (page 2)

Golden Gate, on the other hand, is clearly worse than all those other schools.

Petty squabble much?

[Fark-o-vision]

Anyone else surprised by how small the unemployed bar next to La Verne is?

Edt: the unknown bar is huge, and most of that is probably unemployment, or non-legal jobs. Still, even when you add them together I would have thought it would have been twice that.

[NayBoer]

If you went to San Fran, you would at minimum be competing against, at a disadvantage, grads from Stanford, Berkeley, Hastings, Davis, and Santa Clara. You would be competing against, on a fairly level playing field, grads from McGeorge and Golden Gate.

Just wanted to point out the danger of over-ranking SCU. A lot of its advantage over USF is in IP. Their biglaw numbers are pretty close.

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/composite.pdf (page 2)

Golden Gate, on the other hand, is clearly worse than all those other schools.

Petty squabble much?

Don't make the assertion if you don't want people to make opposing assertions.

And never oversell Golden Gate.

[FuManChusco]

Step 1.) Withdraw from all schools
Step 2.) Retake lsat and get at least a 160
Step 3.) Reapply to tier 1
Step 4.) Accept best offer
Step 5.) Actually get a job making more than 40k
Step 6.) Pay off debt

[somewhatwayward]

Just wanted to point out the danger of over-ranking SCU. A lot of its advantage over USF is in IP. Their biglaw numbers are pretty close.

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/composite.pdf (page 2)

Golden Gate, on the other hand, is clearly worse than all those other schools.

what year was that chart compiled?

[NayBoer]

Just wanted to point out the danger of over-ranking SCU. A lot of its advantage over USF is in IP. Their biglaw numbers are pretty close.

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/composite.pdf (page 2)

Golden Gate, on the other hand, is clearly worse than all those other schools.

what year was that chart compiled?

I believe it's based on this chart, which is class of 2005. Meaning before the peak of the boom, but definitely rosier than the current market.
http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/20080414 ... trends.pdf

[somewhatwayward]

yeah i was wondering bc it looked so good