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prelaw14 wrote:I'm planning on applying to law schools this fall or next. I'm aiming for a T-14 school, but I'm wondering if they all have a strong national reach, or if some are more regional? I have strong ties to Boston and would like to work there after law school. If anyone could give me some insight into this, I'd appreciate it!

Any of the northeast T-14 schools will have a solid reach there, along with the top schools not in the area like Stanford and Chicago, which have great reputations everywhere. No hard and fast rules on which T14 schools are national vs. regional, but you can use general guidelines, like HYSCCN will in general be more national in reach than Cornell & Georgetown for example.

kaiser wrote:

prelaw14 wrote:I'm planning on applying to law schools this fall or next. I'm aiming for a T-14 school, but I'm wondering if they all have a strong national reach, or if some are more regional? I have strong ties to Boston and would like to work there after law school. If anyone could give me some insight into this, I'd appreciate it!

Any of the northeast T-14 schools will have a solid reach there, along with the top schools not in the area like Stanford and Chicago, which have great reputations everywhere. No hard and fast rules on which T14 schools are national vs. regional, but you can use general guidelines, like HYSCCN will in general be more national in reach than Cornell & Georgetown for example.

UVA is konwn to have a strong network in Boston as well.

All of the t-14 will get you to NYC, Chicago, or DC but they each have regions they are stronger in than others. Secondary markets (and by that I mean Boston, Atlanta, California, and Texas, not some random place) will know the top 14 but you will need to either have ties going in or develop them your 1L year.

prelaw14 wrote:I'm wondering if they all have a strong national reach, or if some are more regional?

Yes and yes. These are not mutually exclusive things. Every T14 is a name whose prestige is, at the very least, recognized in every part of the country. That said, the relative strengths of the schools after HYS (which will be the top three wherever you are) vary by market. The strongest of MVPB will depend on whether you're in Detroit, DC, Philadelphia or San Francisco.

Monochromatic Oeuvre wrote:

prelaw14 wrote:I'm wondering if they all have a strong national reach, or if some are more regional?

Yes and yes. These are not mutually exclusive things. Every T14 is a name whose prestige is, at the very least, recognized in every part of the country. That said, the relative strengths of the schools after HYS (which will be the top three wherever you are) vary by market. The strongest of MVPB will depend on whether you're in Detroit, DC, Philadelphia or San Francisco.

(Warning, 0L posting) TITCR, I believe. T14's also tend to dominate their home market at the expense of other law schools - e.g. Chicago and NU cover Chicago, Duke holds sway in the South, Stanford and Cal blanket California, etc.

LST does provide you with information about where graduates end up practicing school by school, if you're looking for more detailed statistics.

prelaw14 wrote:I have strong ties to Boston and would like to work there after law school. If anyone could give me some insight into this, I'd appreciate it!

T14 should get you home

There are a couple of super insular markets (i.e, North Carolina for Duke, Sacramento for Berkeley, possibly UTexas for anything not Houston/Austin) that make more sense than their respective T14 schools for getting into those secondary markets. This kind of doesn't matter so much in your case, since Boston cares about individual ties a lot more than the school's proximity to campus (excluding Berkeley, which is a pain to get to at OCI time).

twentypercentmore wrote:There are a couple of super insular markets (i.e, North Carolina for Duke, Sacramento for Berkeley, possibly UTexas for anything not Houston/Austin) that make more sense than their respective T14 schools for getting into those secondary markets. This kind of doesn't matter so much in your case, since Boston cares about individual ties a lot more than the school's proximity to campus (excluding Berkeley, which is a pain to get to at OCI time).

For future reference re: Texas: I think Austin is more insular than Dallas. Houston isn't any more insular than other secondary markets.

Austin is definitely the toughest of ADH to crack