Rutgers-Newark vs CUNY Forum

[wg1024]

I am split between the two schools. Rutgers I will be in the minority student program which they say would guarantee me internships during the summer, I am skeptical about this though. Rutgers would be 23k/year I will be living with a aunt near by so I'm only looking at tuition as family has agreed to support me. Where as with CUNY I would stay home in queens and is 14k a year. I think that Rutgers offers me more opportunity while CUNY pigeonholes me into public interest which I want to do any way but things may change once I am in school. Seton hall also in the mix but I requested scholarship money so waiting on that but Rutgers and CUNY are the main schools in question. Advice is much appreciated. Thanks

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[should-i-do-it]

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Theres a really good chance you won't have a legal job coming out of CUNY and end up wasting 3 years

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Rutgers gives you only slightly better chances, but most likely you'll be stuck in a shi^y paying clerkship

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Same with Seton Hall

Don't waste that URM status on these schools bro, retake

[McAvoy]

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Theres a really good chance you won't have a legal job coming out of CUNY and end up wasting 3 years

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Rutgers gives you only slightly better chances, but most likely you'll be stuck in a shi^y paying clerkship

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Same with Seton Hall

Don't waste that URM status on these schools bro, retake

This is probably all TCR, but we should wait for OP to give us their specific details.

[wg1024]

I am open to working in nj or NYC. I am interested in public interest work or government. Coa I am not to sure of but will be paying in loans and only financing tuition for both schools. My stats were. 2.9, 158. No interest in big law. Dream job would be to be an attorney for a local union handling compensation and contract disputes.

[McAvoy]

I am open to working in nj or NYC. I am interested in public interest work or government. Coa I am not to sure of but will be paying in loans and only financing tuition for both schools. My stats were. 2.9, 158. No interest in big law. Dream job would be to be an attorney for a local union handling compensation and contract disputes.

You would make a decision as important as this but not put in the five minutes to calculate total cost of attendance? It doesn't matter if you're uninterested in biglaw, retaking is probably going to be the best option here.

If you want to get any valuable advice other than an emphatic "retake," you need to give us all of the following:

-The schools you are considering
-The total Cost of Attendance (COA) of each. COA = cost of tuition + fees + books + cost of living (COL) + accumulated interest - scholarships. Here is a helpful calculator.
-How you will be financing your COA, i.e. loans, family, or savings
-Where you are from and where you want to work, and other places where you have significant ties (if any)
-Your general career goals
-Your LSAT/GPA numbers
-How many times you have taken the LSAT

[jenesaislaw]

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Theres a really good chance you won't have a legal job coming out of CUNY and end up wasting 3 years

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Rutgers gives you only slightly better chances, but most likely you'll be stuck in a shi^y paying clerkship

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... yers/2013/
Same with Seton Hall

Don't waste that URM status on these schools bro, retake

The NJ model is state clerkship => job that desires that experience. The clerkships are not well paying, but no clerkship really is. It's about the experience.

Unfortunately, I've not seen any stats from NJ schools that show what job placement for NJ state clerks looks like after the clerkship. It makes sense to pressure the schools to prove what they'll tell you.