Top Law Schools

rank the top 20 schools in the order you would go to them. Bold the deviations from us news rankings.

1. Stanford
2. Yale
3. Harvard
4. Columbia
5. Chicago
6. Berkeley
7. NYU
8. Penn
9. Duke
10. UVA
11. Vanderbilt
12. UCLA
13. Georgetown
14. Michigan
15. Texas
16. Cornell
17. Northwestern
18. USC
19. Washington University
20. Minnesota

I hate the cold weather and dont have work experience (northwestern). I also want a smaller school.

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-- the end. Not really I'm just lazy

1. Yale
2. Stanford/Harvard
3. Columbia (because of the awesome LRAP)
4. All of the rest of the top 14 schools with P/F LRW
5. Chicago
6. Duke
7. Really afraid to go to any other law school without a huge scholarship......

Yale
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
NYU
Chicago
Penn
Berkeley
Virginia
NorTTThwesTTTern
Michigan
Duke
UCLA
GeorgeTTTown
Cornell
USC
GW
BU/BC
/killself

BruceWayne wrote:1. Yale
2. Stanford/Harvard
3. Columbia (because of the awesome LRAP)
4. All of the rest of the top 14 schools with P/F LRW
5. Chicago
6. Duke
7. Really afraid to go to any other law school without a huge scholarship......

I know next to nothing about Columbia's LRAP (as opposed to NYU's), but #4 is super-credited.

Unemployed wrote:

BruceWayne wrote:1. Yale
2. Stanford/Harvard
3. Columbia (because of the awesome LRAP)
4. All of the rest of the top 14 schools with P/F LRW
5. Chicago
6. Duke
7. Really afraid to go to any other law school without a huge scholarship......

I know next to nothing about Columbia's LRAP (as opposed to NYU's), but #4 is super-credited.

Basically it's the LRAP closest to HYS. It's downright gold if you land a government job paying over 60K ( it's the only non HYS LRAP that covers government jobs with good salaries).

1) Yale
2) Harvard
3) Michigan - visit
4) Virgina - visit
5) Penn
6) Chicago - visit
7) NYU (not visit but seen campus)
8.) Columbia
9) Georgetown
10) Vanderbilt
11)UT
12) Duke
13) Cornell
14)GW

I wasn't really interested in CA so no Berkley or Stanford (No real chance) nor very interested in NYC so Columbia (NRC) and NYU are lower than they deserve to be as schools. IRL I was choosing CN and down but went ED to Michigan to leave nothing to chance.

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Chic
Penn
Tex
Duke
Vandy

I'll play

1a. Harvard
1b. Stanford
3. Yale
4. Chicago
5. Columbia
6. Michigan/NYU/Berkeley

Yale
Harvard
Stanford
NYU
Columbia
Berkeley
Chicago
Michigan
Penn
Virginia/Duke

tkgrrett wrote:I'll play

1a. Harvard
1b. Stanford
3. Yale
4. Chicago
5. Columbia
6. Michigan/NYU/Berkeley

Transparent "Yale can't reject me, I reject them" trolling.

YHS
Chicago
Berkeley
Columbia
NYU
Michigan

curryinaninstant wrote:Yale
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
NYU
Chicago
Penn
Berkeley
Virginia
NorTTThwesTTTern
Michigan
Duke
UCLA
GeorgeTTTown
Cornell
USC
GW
BU/BC
/killself

You'd rather kill yourself than go to Vanderbilt?

1. Yale
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Columbia/Penn
5. Chicago
6. Duke
7. Michigan
8. Georgetown/Virginia
9. Cornell
10. NYU
11. Vanderbilt
12. Berkeley/Northwestern

This is my best guess... frankly, they're all great.

I'll do my T14
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1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Columbia
4. Stanford
5. NYU
6. Penn
7. Chicago
8. UVA
9. Cornell
10. Georgetown
11. Northwestern
12. Michigan
13. Berkeley
14. Duke
15. GW/Fordham/BU/BC
16. . . . /self

whitman wrote:

curryinaninstant wrote:Yale
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
NYU
Chicago
Penn
Berkeley
Virginia
NorTTThwesTTTern
Michigan
Duke
UCLA
GeorgeTTTown
Cornell
USC
GW
BU/BC
/killself

You'd rather kill yourself than go to Vanderbilt?

Live in that area for 3 years? No thanks. I'd rather endure Ithica

Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Columbia
NYU/UT

Yale
Stanford
Harvard
Duke
Penn
Berkeley
Vandy
Michigan
UCLA

(None of CCN really appeal to me; I'd much rather take a substantial scholarship to a lower-ranked school).

DoubleChecks wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Columbia
NYU/UT

Curveball.

gbpackerbacker wrote:

DoubleChecks wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Columbia
NYU/UT

Curveball.

haha well i grew up in TX and only want to go back to TX, which may also help explain my preference of schools

and TX is a unique market..where ties matter a lot and UT is seen as a very powerful hitter; in-state tuition + virtually a free ride = on par w/ NYU (w/ partial scholly) for me

1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Stanford
4. NYU
5. Columbia
6. Chicago
7. Penn
8. Berkeley
9. Georgetown
10. Northwestern
11. Michigan

DoubleChecks wrote:

gbpackerbacker wrote:

DoubleChecks wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Columbia
NYU/UT

Curveball.

haha well i grew up in TX and only want to go back to TX, which may also help explain my preference of schools

and TX is a unique market..where ties matter a lot and UT is seen as a very powerful hitter; in-state tuition + virtually a free ride = on par w/ NYU (w/ partial scholly) for me

I think it is an excellent choice. Seeing it there with those other schools just threw me off, haha...

This whole thing is tough given the money thing, aka a half ride at UVA would be better then NYU for me but if all at sticker...

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UChi
UVA
Penn
Mich
Duke
Northwestern
Georgetown
Cornell

1. Harvard University
2. Yale University
3. Stanford University
4. Columbia University
5. New York University
6. University of Chicago
7. Duke
8. Georgetown
9. University of Virginia
10. University of Pennsylvania
11. Northwestern University
12. University of Michigan
13. Cornell University
14. Fordham (w/$)
15. Get an MBA

I am a lay prestige whore who loves the Northeast and hates the cold weather, in that order.