Well, if last year's were an anomaly, this year's were even more of an anomaly. Any three-year figure that includes the Class of 2010 is going to be heavily impacted (between Vandy and Cornell) by these latest figures. Regardless, even if we accepted that three-year average as a true measure of NLJ 250 placement (and ignored the self-selection differences between the two schools), it does not even come close to your assertion that Cornell gives you twice as good a chance to get a biglaw job.CanadianWolf wrote:drylo: My out-of-pocket figure includes total costs, not just tuition.
Cornell's figures last year were an anomaly. Another poster compiled NLJ 3 year average placement statistics for the NLJ largest 250 law firms & Cornell placed 5th & Vanderbilt 14th. Virginia placed 8th.
3 Year NLJ 250 Placement Averages (as compiled & posted by another TLS poster):
1) Chicago 60.22
2) Columbia 60.03
3) Penn 57.27
4) Northwestern 54.39
5) Cornell 53.94
6) NYU 52.92
7) Berkeley 52.74
Virginia 52.36
9) Harvard 51.61
10) Stanford 50.67
11) Duke 49.88
12) Michigan 49.49
13) Georgetown 43.13
14) Vanderbilt 40.50
15) USC 39.21
16) BC 37.99
17) UCLA 37.81
18) BU 35.27
19) GWU 33.29
20) Fordham 32.93
And even if you based it on Vandy's cost of attendance numbers, $140k is still too high. Plus, the cost of attendance figures that schools provide are not that valuable (they are only there to give you an amount that you can take out in loans for "school")--just compare the allowances that Vandy and Cornell make, for instance. The point is that Cornell tuition is $8-9k more per year than Vandy's... and that $140k is very high, if you are only paying $21k in tuition per year.