Notre Dame ($87K) or UCI ($30K) for work in SoCal?? Forum

[Hutz_and_Goodman]

Gotta retake. There is no downside (schools only consider highest score), and if you can improve a couple points you will have USC and UCLA on the table. Improve ten points and you have a good shot at Berkeley.

Also, it great that you have a connection at a vault firm but unless you have the grades you're not going to be in good shape. And keep in mind that zero firms from southern california will come to OCI at Notre Dame, so you be blind mailing your resume and then paying on your own dime to fly to CA to interview at firms where there likely will be no Notre Dame alums. That makes it a lot harder to get a job.

[Big Dog]

Gotta do all this first

Negative. Retake is the ONLY option. (or don't go.)

I'd like to get my loans payed off as quickly as possible...

No need for loans. Another 8+ points and you can attend UCLA tuition-FREE.

[paayter]

Irvine use to offer really good $$$, this year they dont even offer anything close to USC/UCLA for decent stat applicants.

Plus their employment stats are getting worse and worse and the class size is growing

THIS! people are thinking uc irvine is some new godsend law school...64 percent employment for 80 kids? thats super ridiculous, and then 20 percent of the class got fed clerkships, due to connections that won't be viable in the coming years. couple that with more matriculants, you are going to have an lst score of 50 percent or less...technically i want to put them at 50 percent due to the fact that 20 percent fed clerkship i believe to be 'school funded jobs.(hook up from chermerinsky). even schools like ucla/usc are hurting...their true lst numbers are at around 60-65 percent after school funded jobs are subtracted. what makes those 2 attractive is the fact that they place a third of their class in to big law. why the aba allowed another california school to open up is beyond me, and now trinity is getting aba status as well. the oc market is small, and will have almost as many schools as los angeles and san francisco.