Class of 2015 Employment Statistics by School: #TrustTheProcess Forum

[jbagelboy]

Clerkships outside of Yale, Harvard, and Stanford are going to be such a small % of the class generally, and only really going to be in play for a small % of the class to begin with that it's an area where whoever at the school is running Clerkships are a particular time and without a doubt, self-interest, are really going to make a major difference year to year. At the end of the day, we're talking about the difference between 19 people having a Federal Clerkship and 7 people having one. When the class size is under 200 that's a big swing in percentages, but probably not super indicative of one's ability to obtain a clerkship out of Cornell.

I mean, since in several of the past years chicago and uva have had a higher clerkship % than hls, I'm not sure it's that simple. Yale and Stanford, certainly.

[Lincoln]

Can someone who knows excel and doesn't have a real job please do the three-year averages?

[Lavitz]

Hes completely trolling you bro

Yep, realized that a bit later.

But given that this is in choosing a law school, and the 0Ls usually can't tell the difference and always read too much into these numbers, I figure I may as well leave it there for context.

[jbagelboy]

Can someone who knows excel and doesn't have a real job please do the three-year averages?

Ill do it tomorrow since I already have one for the past few yrs but im drunk rn

[star fox]

Can someone who knows excel and doesn't have a real job please do the three-year averages?

Ill do it tomorrow since I already have one for the past few yrs but im drunk rn

Nice. Thanks.


Is that the 3 percentages averaged together or adding up the 3 numerators and denominators together and dividing those numbers (since class sizes change year to year)? Pedantic I know.

[Tiago Splitter]

Is that the 3 percentages averaged together or adding up the 3 numerators and denominators together and dividing those numbers (since class sizes change year to year)? Pedantic I know.

Tough crowd.

[rpupkin]

Hes completely trolling you bro

Yep, realized that a bit later.

But given that this is in choosing a law school, and the 0Ls usually can't tell the difference and always read too much into these numbers, I figure I may as well leave it there for context.

I hope everyone realizes that all of this year-to-year variation is mostly noise, and that adding BL +FC gives you an incomplete (and in some cases misleading) picture of the placement power of a law school.

Except, that is, in the case of Penn. Its decline this year portends an ominous future for graduates of that bottom-tier Ivy. But for all the other law schools, you should take these year-to-year variations with a grain of salt.

[TirantMartorell]

BU Law is 39% biglaw(100+)+clerkship

This is roughly the same as 2014, but 2013 was 29%.

at least according to this
http://www.bu.edu/law/careers/employmen ... s-of-2015/


ETA: corrected and this is all ten months after grad

It's actually 34.6% for BU (big law + fed clerk)

[Dr. Nefario]

BU Law is 39% biglaw(100+)+clerkship

This is roughly the same as 2014, but 2013 was 29%.

at least according to this
http://www.bu.edu/law/careers/employmen ... s-of-2015/


ETA: corrected and this is all ten months after grad

It's actually 34.6% for BU (big law + fed clerk)

ran the numbers again (48+7+15+11)/208 and got 37.5%, maybe I'm just bad at math

[TirantMartorell]

BU Law is 39% biglaw(100+)+clerkship

This is roughly the same as 2014, but 2013 was 29%.

at least according to this
http://www.bu.edu/law/careers/employmen ... s-of-2015/


ETA: corrected and this is all ten months after grad

It's actually 34.6% for BU (big law + fed clerk)

ran the numbers again (48+7+15+11)/208 and got 37.5%, maybe I'm just bad at math

That's because you're adding both state and federal clerks - there are only 2 fed clerks from BU, the other 9 are state clerks - those don't count for purposes of the numbers people are computing on this thread.

[Tiago Splitter]

I'm taking nominations for a blue ribbon panel I will be appointing to determine the correct biglaw + fed clerk number for Boston University.

[star fox]

Is that the 3 percentages averaged together or adding up the 3 numerators and denominators together and dividing those numbers (since class sizes change year to year)? Pedantic I know.

Tough crowd.

[SirArthurDayne]

Excuse my ignorance, but are the new USNEWS rankings based on these numbers or last years?

[TirantMartorell]

Link to NYU: http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/fi ... duates.pdf

Big law + fed clerk = 68%

[BigZuck]

Excuse my ignorance, but are the new USNEWS rankings based on these numbers or last years?

TWIST: Neither (basically)

[stretchedtoothin]

Excuse my ignorance, but are the new USNEWS rankings based on these numbers or last years?

lol only employment #s only make up 20% of USNEWS' rankings methodology. I don't think it matters which employments #s theyre relying on. It's all about dat library size anyway

[usernotfound]

Excuse my ignorance, but are the new USNEWS rankings based on these numbers or last years?

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... ethodology

[personofinterest]

I have a 5 year average in pdf. how do I post it?

[Biglaw1990]

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[Biglaw1990]

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[personofinterest]

I have a 5 year average in pdf. how do I post it?

Post it here and Nebby will add it to the OP.

I don't post much. How do I post a photo?

[proteinshake]

I have a 5 year average in pdf. how do I post it?

Post it here and Nebby will add it to the OP.

I don't post much. How do I post a photo?

you can't unless you have 100 posts. anyone know how else to do this?

[jbagelboy]

I have a 5 year average in pdf. how do I post it?

Post it here and Nebby will add it to the OP.

I don't post much. How do I post a photo?

you can't unless you have 100 posts. anyone know how else to do this?

[jbagelboy]

Is that the 3 percentages averaged together or adding up the 3 numerators and denominators together and dividing those numbers (since class sizes change year to year)? Pedantic I know.

Tough crowd.

Ya i think i got dat class size. Obviously weighted proportionally

[chicharon]

I have a 5 year average in pdf. how do I post it?

Post it here and Nebby will add it to the OP.

I don't post much. How do I post a photo?

you can't unless you have 100 posts. anyone know how else to do this?

Upload somewhere and post a link