Worst & best law school that someone you know attends Forum

[akili]

+1 to the people who don't know that many real life law students

Best: Pepperdine
Worst: Gonzaga

Yeah.....

[dakatz]

Best: GW
Worst: Tulsa

[mpj_3050]

Best: NYU
Worst: Capital University

[BEAST_mode]

Best: Cooley

Worst: Cooley

[lisjjen]

Best: Yale

Worst: University of Idaho

[johnnyutah]

Best: Chicago

Worst: Northern Kentucky

Although, if you ask people in Kentucky, a frightening number of them will identify NKU as the best law school in the state.

[1ferret!]

Best: Yale
Worst: Southwestern

[dextermorgan]

Best: Chicago

Worst: Northern Kentucky

Although, if you ask people in Kentucky, a frightening number of them will identify NKU as the best law school in the state.

That's not saying much.

[johnnyutah]

Best: Chicago

Worst: Northern Kentucky

Although, if you ask people in Kentucky, a frightening number of them will identify NKU as the best law school in the state.

That's not saying much.

UK and Louisville are fine schools. NKU is T4.

[2011Law]

Stanford


St. Thomas (in Miami FL)

[beachbum]

Best: Mizzou, SLU

Worst: SIU-C, UMKC

[r6_philly]

Best: Harvard

Worst: Cooley

[joemoviebuff]

Best: UVA

Worst: Thomas Jefferson

[ndirish2010]

Best: Columbia

Worst: Ohio Northern

[romothesavior]

Best: Mizzou, SLU

Worst: SIU-C, UMKC

SIU-C is not a great school, but it is cheap enough that it is not a bad Tier 3 school. It also has a bit of a niche market in central and downstate Illinois. It is one of the few T3 schools I think can actually be a good investment.

[Chouchous]

Best: University of Toronto
Worst: Western New England School of Law

Edited to include that I know 4 people who attended or are attending University of Toronto and 1 person who attended Western New England. Toronto graduates work on Bay Street and in NYC, the Western New England graduate never found a job even remotely connected to the legal profession.

[jwrash]

Best: UNC
Worst: N.C. Central

[beachbum]

Best: Mizzou, SLU

Worst: SIU-C, UMKC

SIU-C is not a great school, but it is cheap enough that it is not a bad Tier 3 school. It also has a bit of a niche market in central and downstate Illinois. It is one of the few T3 schools I think can actually be a good investment.

It's Tier 4, no? But I agree, it's cheap enough that it can be a decent option for someone who really wants to be a lawyer, and who doesn't mind working in the smaller communities of Southern Illinois. I put it there mostly based on its T4 status, and its inability to place graduates into higher-profile jobs and markets.

Edit: Definitely skipped my mind that I know an IU-B student. Guess that would beat out Mizzou and SLU for the best school.

[piccolittle]

Does it count people who just graduated?

Best: Harvard/Yale/Columbia

Worst: University of San Francisco/Brooklyn/St John's

[cinephile]

Best: Case Western

Worst: Dayton

Also, I only know 3 people in real life in law school.

[Sentry]

Best: Stanford
Worst: washburn

I have one cousin that went to washburn amd a different cousin that went to NYU.

[soullesswonder]

This thread would be more interesting if it asked where the dumbest law student you know attends school and where the smartest attends school.

[dougroberts]

Best: Univ. of Chicago
Worst: Univ. of St. Tomas (MN)

[HeavenWood]

Best: Boston University
Worst: UPenn

(Though I must admit that if Penn didn't come to fruition, BU probably would have been my second choice).

[flcath]

Best: Harvard

Worst: Cooley, Florida Coastal, Barry, and Ave Maria