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Does prestige really matter after T-6?
With USNews basically having the legal ranking system by its nuts, prestige now plays a huge factor in the legal community. This tends to make some people subconsciously view Yale grads as more accomplished than Columbia grads, Harvard grads more elite than Stanford grads & NYU grads not even close to their neighbors up the island. I know Im not the only one who's seen those silly "arguments". Does it really matter where you go to school after you reach T-6? If you're dedicated, disciplined & willing to go further than your peers, would it really be that much of a factor on your career if you went to Chicago instead of Harvard?
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It's not the rankings that make people think HYS > CCN, it is the legal community.
Look at the employment prospects of people coming out of HYS as opposed to CCN, that is prestige in action.
Look at the employment prospects of people coming out of HYS as opposed to CCN, that is prestige in action.
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I talked to a guy that used to be a partner at Jones Day. He considered there to be more disparity between positions 1 and 4 than between 20 and 30.
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Re: Does prestige really matter after T-6?
I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.Hannibal wrote:I talked to a guy that used to be a partner at Jones Day. He considered there to be more disparity between positions 1 and 4 than between 20 and 30.
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With more dedication, discipline, and willingness to go further, it's possible to go farther from Chicago than many Harvard people go. I'm sure there are people at Harvard who graduate and coast from there, and a hard worker from Chicago could surpass them in overall achievement in the long run. However, if you were comparing two people of similar dedication, discipline, and drive from the different schools, I'd put my money on the Harvard guy going farther every time. The name and the networking opportunities it presents are just worth that much more, even more than a Chicago or Columbia or school along those lines.El Rey Negro wrote:Does it really matter where you go to school after you reach T-6? If you're dedicated, disciplined & willing to go further than your peers, would it really be that much of a factor on your career if you went to Chicago instead of Harvard?
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Re: Does prestige really matter after T-6?
See, e.g., the Supreme Court of the United States.vanwinkle wrote:With more dedication, discipline, and willingness to go further, it's possible to go farther from Chicago than many Harvard people go. I'm sure there are people at Harvard who graduate and coast from there, and a hard worker from Chicago could surpass them in overall achievement in the long run. However, if you were comparing two people of similar dedication, discipline, and drive from the different schools, I'd put my money on the Harvard guy going farther every time. The name and the networking opportunities it presents are just worth that much more, even more than a Chicago or Columbia or school along those lines.El Rey Negro wrote:Does it really matter where you go to school after you reach T-6? If you're dedicated, disciplined & willing to go further than your peers, would it really be that much of a factor on your career if you went to Chicago instead of Harvard?
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Re: Does prestige really matter after T-6?
Uh, yeh?
Would you rather go to some bottom ranked t14 or some school in TTT?
Would you rather go to some bottom ranked t14 or some school in TTT?
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Based on what?!GettingReady2010 wrote: I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
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NLJ250 placement and SCOTUS placement.drdolittle wrote:Based on what?!GettingReady2010 wrote: I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
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Yeah I dunno about this either. Bigger difference between Yale and Chicago than between George Washington and University of Maine? No way.GettingReady2010 wrote:I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
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Yeah, good examples, a really dumb original comment indeed. Nothing against GR2010 though...everybody makes stupid posts.2011Law wrote:Yeah I dunno about this either. Bigger difference between Yale and Chicago than between George Washington and University of Maine? No way.GettingReady2010 wrote:I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
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If all you consider law school to be about is placement there, then for you you're probably right, but to the 99.9% of us who have more humble goals than Chief Justice or President of Earth, there's more to look at when choosing law school.GettingReady2010 wrote:NLJ250 placement and SCOTUS placement.drdolittle wrote:Based on what?!GettingReady2010 wrote: I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
EDIT: spelling error due to too many lsat pts
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You seem kind of offended by my post to break out ad hominem attacks. Did I offend your delicate sensibilities? Are you going to GW or something?drdolittle wrote:Yeah, good examples, a really dumb original comment indeed. Nothing against GR2010 though...everybody makes stupid posts.2011Law wrote:Yeah I dunno about this either. Bigger difference between Yale and Chicago than between George Washington and University of Maine? No way.GettingReady2010 wrote:I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
The reason I think this is because a school ranked 20 has only a strong regional reputation, same as many lower ranked tier 2s. Yale, on the other hand, has placed countless Presidents and SC Justices. Columbia has not. When the economy is bad T2 grads are screwed and so are GW grads. Also, when the economy is bad even Columbia grads struggle. Yale grads don't.
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Are you seriously going to judge schools based on the minuscule chance at a SCOTUS placement or some other absurdly high position? Let's consider the numbers from 2005 in terms of total clerkships and 250.GettingReady2010 wrote:NLJ250 placement and SCOTUS placement.drdolittle wrote:Based on what?!GettingReady2010 wrote: I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
Yale beats Chicago on clerkships by about 30%. Chicago has Yale on 250 firms by about 20%. That's a 10% difference.
GW has 10% clerkships, and about 24% biglaw. Hofstra (86) has about 5% biglaw and 3% clerkships. A 26% difference.
In regards to clerkships, I see your point that Yale destroys in number and prestige. But even then Seton Hall has 35% clerkships to Yale's 50%.
Also, your definition of "screwed" is pretty vague.
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I retract my statement regarding NLJ 250 placement, because Yale is unique in that respect. I think Harvard and Stanford beat Yale in NLJ 250 placement, but that's not because Yale grads struggle against these schools to secure these positions. It's because, IMO, Yale grads are being offered prestigious clerkships lefts and right and would gladly take them over biglaw.Hannibal wrote:Are you seriously going to judge schools based on the minuscule chance at a SCOTUS placement or some other absurdly high position? Let's consider the numbers from 2005 in terms of total clerkships and 250.GettingReady2010 wrote:NLJ250 placement and SCOTUS placement.drdolittle wrote:Based on what?!GettingReady2010 wrote: I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
Yale beats Chicago on clerkships by about 30%. Chicago has Yale on 250 firms by about 20%. That's a 10% difference.
GW has 10% clerkships, and about 24% biglaw. Hofstra (86) has about 5% biglaw and 3% clerkships. A 26% difference.
In regards to clerkships, I see your point that Yale destroys in number and prestige. But even then Seton Hall has 35% clerkships to Yale's 50%.
Also, your definition of "screwed" is pretty vague.
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yeah GW is one of my targets, but you pretty much made my point in your response. there are more jobs out there than I think you realize. Yes you will have way more opportunities graduating from a top school, but you are not automatically screwed if you go to a non t-14 school or TTT. people at the bottom of any school will have a hard time finding work (the only person I know who went to Yale law came out with nothing), and the people who do good or are good in a field will do good (uncle went to nova and he's got a few milli in the bank).GettingReady2010 wrote:You seem kind of offended by my post to break out ad hominem attacks. Did I offend your delicate sensibilities? Are you going to GW or something?drdolittle wrote:Yeah, good examples, a really dumb original comment indeed. Nothing against GR2010 though...everybody makes stupid posts.2011Law wrote:Yeah I dunno about this either. Bigger difference between Yale and Chicago than between George Washington and University of Maine? No way.GettingReady2010 wrote:I would probably say that there is more of a disparity between 1 and 4 than between 20 and 100.
The reason I think this is because a school ranked 20 has only a strong regional reputation, same as many lower ranked tier 2s. Yale, on the other hand, has placed countless Presidents and SC Justices. Columbia has not. When the economy is bad T2 grads are screwed and so are GW grads. Also, when the economy is bad even Columbia grads struggle. Yale grads don't.
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The point is that people that were competitive for placements in clerkships at Yale probably went to biglaw if they did not get a clerkship. Unfortunately comparing clerkships to biglaw is like apples to oranges.
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Oh no, I really don't care what you think about me, as you shouldn't really care what I think about you. This is an anonymous forum so it's important to have some tolerance for direct challenges of ideas, which are not necessarily "attacks" even if they're strongly worded.GettingReady2010 wrote: You seem kind of offended by my post to break out ad hominem attacks. Did I offend your delicate sensibilities?
But the only reason I responded the way I did, and I qualified my remark by pointing out it's nothing personal, is that some folks who know even less about law school admissions than you do might read your post and waste calories trying to make sense of it. As Hannibal aptly argued, your post made no real sense at all, even if you thought it did. I hope this doesn't offend your delicate sensibilities though. Remember, it's not personal.
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I think Briatharen has proven that incorrect. Also, Dean Asha at Yale.drdolittle wrote:Oh no, I really don't care what you think about me, as you shouldn't really care what I think about you. This is an anonymous forum so it's important to have some tolerance for direct challenges of ideas, which are not necessarily "attacks" even if they're strongly worded.GettingReady2010 wrote: You seem kind of offended by my post to break out ad hominem attacks. Did I offend your delicate sensibilities?
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Yeah bro, don't care what your future classmates and colleagues think of you.
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Compare Harvard to Chicago. Find me two meaningful opportunity or placement statistics that show a per capita advantage for Harvard grads. You can't .bk187 wrote:It's not the rankings that make people think HYS > CCN, it is the legal community.
Look at the employment prospects of people coming out of HYS as opposed to CCN, that is prestige in action.
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That's definitely not what I meant. But I choose to use TLS anonymously so I do not consider most other posters as my actual peers (though of course I know actual peers are out there too). I do think the vast majority of users are in this boat, at least based on comments.bk187 wrote:Yeah bro, don't care what your future classmates and colleagues think of you.
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Supreme Court Justice, President of the United States.TaipeiMort wrote:Compare Harvard to Chicago. Find me two meaningful opportunity or placement statistics that show a per capita advantage for Harvard grads. You can't .bk187 wrote:It's not the rankings that make people think HYS > CCN, it is the legal community.
Look at the employment prospects of people coming out of HYS as opposed to CCN, that is prestige in action.
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lolGettingReady2010 wrote:...Yale, on the other hand, has placed countless Presidents and SC Justices.
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Good ones. Also, this: http://www.leiterrankings.com/jobs/2009 ... hing.shtml There are a lot more professors with Harvard degrees than Chicago degrees currently out there, and as Leiter notes (by trying to create a "per capita" metric comparing it to graduating class size) it's a larger gap than can be accounted for with the difference in graduating class sizes.d34dluk3 wrote:Supreme Court Justice, President of the United States.TaipeiMort wrote:Compare Harvard to Chicago. Find me two meaningful opportunity or placement statistics that show a per capita advantage for Harvard grads. You can't .bk187 wrote:It's not the rankings that make people think HYS > CCN, it is the legal community.
Look at the employment prospects of people coming out of HYS as opposed to CCN, that is prestige in action.
But since there are so many different opportunities spread around out there, it's hard to find a single one where the Harvard name makes an easily documentable difference, except at those upper-echelon levels.
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