Ranking vs. # of OCI Forum

[always206]

Question:

If "Big Law" is your goal, then is it more advantageous to go to the higher ranked school, or the school with the most OCI participating law firms?

For example:

Law school A is ranked 19th, while law school B is ranked 25th. However, law school B has more participating firms looking for new big law prospects. Assuming class size is the same, which school would be better?

Sometimes we focus too much on rankings, and ignore how many firms are willing to interview the top 8% of the class.

Let the debate begin.

I'm siding with law school B.

[always206]

Question:

If "Big Law" is your goal, then is it more advantageous to go to the higher ranked school, or the school with the most OCI participating law firms?

For example:

Law school A is ranked 19th, while law school B is ranked 25th. However, law school B has more participating firms looking for new big law prospects. Assuming class size is the same, which school would be better?

Sometimes we focus too much on rankings, and ignore how many firms are willing to interview the top 8% of the class.

Let the debate begin.

I'm siding with law school B.

I think LSAC could play around with this question and turn it into a LSAT LR. LOL

[ndirish2010]

They're the same. End of thread.

[Grizz]

There are so many more factors at work that this is just stupid.

[Slevin Kelevra 2011]

You want to look at biglaw placement statistics, not how many firms go to campus to interview. If they interview but don't hire students, who cares about OCI numbers.

[HeavenWood]

There are so many more factors at work that this is just stupid.

[Mickey Quicknumbers]

neither?

Why limit the question (that is completely useless anyways) to two crappy metrics.

[fakemoney]

Does anyone know where you can get updated OCI data?

[Slevin Kelevra 2011]

School website, nalp directory, etc.

Also, here is actual hiring stats
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNL ... hbxlogin=1.