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Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:12 pm
by 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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:19 pm
by NU_Jet55
rgucsb wrote: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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Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:22 pm
by 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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:24 pm
by 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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:04 am
by Grizz
Retake or don't go.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:09 am
by dood
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Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:15 am
by Bosque
NYLS. With some whiteout and a fountain pen, you can graduate from NYU! Can't beat that deal.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:19 am
by D-ROCCA
$200,000 is a lot of money
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:22 am
by jetlagz28
Jefferson
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:26 am
by paratactical
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Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:23 pm
by 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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:26 pm
by reasonable_man
General Tso wrote: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..
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:29 pm
by 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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:45 pm
by Lawl Shcool
+1 for TJ, loved my time there
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:47 pm
by General Tso
twert wrote: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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:53 pm
by twert
General Tso wrote:twert wrote: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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:33 pm
by harborleaguemvp
TJ, awesome school, its in SD, faculty is great, youll enjoy youre time there
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:35 pm
by Ty Webb
harborleaguemvp wrote:TJ, awesome school, its in SD, faculty is great, youll enjoy youre time there
Wow.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:39 pm
by 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....
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:41 pm
by LoyolaLaw2012
itsfine wrote: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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:41 pm
by Ty Webb
harborleaguemvp wrote: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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:41 pm
by Ty Webb
LoyolaLaw2012 wrote:itsfine wrote: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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:47 pm
by Grizz
Ty Webb wrote:harborleaguemvp wrote: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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:08 pm
by 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.
Re: Thomas Jeff or NYLS, need some help deciding
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:12 pm
by deadpanic
JPU wrote: 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.