Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding Forum

[rgucsb]

Hi everyone, I am asking for your help in making this very quick decision.

I am from california and am interested in property law. My numbers are a 3.4 and a 147 lsat (i have a history of poor standardized testing) after taking testmasters and improving 10 points.

I was planning on attending NYLS but recently got an offer to attend Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. My parents offered to pay half my tuition (about 19,000$ a year for 3 years) if I stayed in California.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you all and God Bless.

[NU_Jet55]

Hi everyone, I am asking for your help in making this very quick decision.

I am from california and am interested in property law. My numbers are a 3.4 and a 147 lsat (i have a history of poor standardized testing) after taking testmasters and improving 10 points.

I was planning on attending NYLS but recently got an offer to attend Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. My parents offered to pay half my tuition (about 19,000$ a year for 3 years) if I stayed in California.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you all and God Bless.

Retake.

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[PoliticalJunkie]

Beyond the obvious answer of retake, of your options go with TJU. NYLS is not worth the money/time even on a full scholarship.

[merichard87]

Wasn't there someone else on here who asked for help deciding between NYLS and TJ and then started talking about how both schools schools had 90+% employed after graduation so they were very confident in their choices? Hilarious flame.

OP: I have no advice to offer you but this thread brought back some very funny memories. Thanks for that.

[Grizz]

Retake or don't go.

[dood]

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[Bosque]

NYLS. With some whiteout and a fountain pen, you can graduate from NYU! Can't beat that deal.

[D-ROCCA]

$200,000 is a lot of money

[jetlagz28]

Jefferson

[paratactical]

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[General Tso]

NEITHER

whats up with the "Crap school X vs. Crap school Y" threads today?

OP you are out of your freaking mind if you let your parents flush that money down the toilet on these shit schools. Get serious man...learn some real estate or start your own freaking Panda Express or something. Anything is better than this crap.

There are at least 3 law schools for San Diego's tiny market --> you won't get a job
There are at least 15 law schools for NYC's huge market, and NYLS is the worst of them all --> you won't get a job.

[reasonable_man]

NEITHER

whats up with the "Crap school X vs. Crap school Y" threads today?

OP you are out of your freaking mind if you let your parents flush that money down the toilet on these shit schools. Get serious man...learn some real estate or start your own freaking Panda Express or something. Anything is better than this crap.

There are at least 3 law schools for San Diego's tiny market --> you won't get a job
There are at least 15 law schools for NYC's huge market, and NYLS is the worst of them all --> you won't get a job.

That's hardly fair.. Touro is worse than NYLS...

But seriously.. why the nationwide tour of TTTs.. If you're going to attend either.. attend the cheapest one closest to where you want to work..

[twert]

Thomas Jefferson at half price, in a cheaper housing market, is the better of your two options. neither is great, but the idea that you won't find a job is fatalistic and, for about a third of the graduates of each school, wrong.

[Lawl Shcool]

+1 for TJ, loved my time there

[General Tso]

Thomas Jefferson at half price, in a cheaper housing market, is the better of your two options. neither is great, but the idea that you won't find a job is fatalistic and, for about a third of the graduates of each school, wrong.

I was probably too harsh in saying that OP won't get a job. They will probably get something even if it is not with a law firm. But if their parents are willing to give them $60,000, why not invest it in something more profitable? There are some great real estate bargains right now, for instance.

[twert]

Thomas Jefferson at half price, in a cheaper housing market, is the better of your two options. neither is great, but the idea that you won't find a job is fatalistic and, for about a third of the graduates of each school, wrong.

I was probably too harsh in saying that OP won't get a job. They will probably get something even if it is not with a law firm. But if their parents are willing to give them $60,000, why not invest it in something more profitable? There are some great real estate bargains right now, for instance.

i 100% agree. 60k is enough to start a business, which, if i could, i would choose over law school easy.
and yes OP, be prepared for the reality that a lot of grads from schools like these get jobs outside the legal profession.

[harborleaguemvp]

TJ, awesome school, its in SD, faculty is great, youll enjoy youre time there

[Ty Webb]

TJ, awesome school, its in SD, faculty is great, youll enjoy youre time there

Wow.

[itsfine]

My cousins husband is a lawyer in florida and just made partner at whatever firm he is at (never met the person) but i heard a funny story about him. He went to NYLS, upon making partner the people said to him, flat out, "you didnt go to NYU? you know, if we knew this years ago we would not have hired you"...obviously upon making him partner they no longer cared since they saw his work and knew he was worthy of partner, but still, kinda funny that they said that to him....

[LoyolaLaw2012]

My cousins husband is a lawyer in florida and just made partner at whatever firm he is at (never met the person) but i heard a funny story about him. He went to NYLS, upon making partner the people said to him, flat out, "you didnt go to NYU? you know, if we knew this years ago we would not have hired you"...obviously upon making him partner they no longer cared since they saw his work and knew he was worthy of partner, but still, kinda funny that they said that to him....

Highly doubt this.

[Ty Webb]

TJ, awesome school, its in SD, faculty is great, youll enjoy youre time there

Actually, OP:

In looking back at this poster's previous posts, I see that he went from TJ to Boalt after finishing in the top 2%.

Given the post above, it would appear that your competition will be so weak that the traditional literature on how tough it is to transfer might not apply at this particular TTT.

[Ty Webb]

My cousins husband is a lawyer in florida and just made partner at whatever firm he is at (never met the person) but i heard a funny story about him. He went to NYLS, upon making partner the people said to him, flat out, "you didnt go to NYU? you know, if we knew this years ago we would not have hired you"...obviously upon making him partner they no longer cared since they saw his work and knew he was worthy of partner, but still, kinda funny that they said that to him....

Highly doubt this.

[Grizz]

TJ, awesome school, its in SD, faculty is great, youll enjoy youre time there

Actually, OP:

In looking back at this poster's previous posts, I see that he went from TJ to Boalt after finishing in the top 2%.

Given the post above, it would appear that your competition will be so weak that the traditional literature on how tough it is to transfer might not apply at this particular TTT.

Not something to gamble a fat load of $ on.

[Lawl Shcool]

Also a TJ to Boalt transfer. Competition is def tough at the top of the class and the faculty is top notch. Check out the profiles, they are almost all from HYSCCNB.

[deadpanic]

Check out the profiles, they are almost all from HYSCCNB.

So is the faculty from every other law school. This makes no difference.

OP, don't go to either unless you have some kind of weird fetish of throwing away thousands of dollars to be unemployed.