Top Law Schools

Kobaine51 wrote:

Clearlynotstefan wrote:Do not write a gpa addendum to explain a few b's. Google law school numbers. Has everything you need. As far as the lsat, it's a common question, but also misguided around here, you don't pick a score, then study...you study as best you can, earn your score, then pick a school. Study for 180. Don't settle.

As misguided as you may think it is, it's actually a useful question to ask. Obviously I'm studying for a 180, but there are other numbers I would settle for. 177 would still be very useful for me. Knowing a floor for admission will allow me to choose wether or not to take the test, based on practice scores. I do not need to apply this year, but I will if I have a reasonable chance of admission based on practicing at or above some floor I set based on the information I get from people on this forum.

Law school numbers is useful, and I've interpreted the data myself, but I want to know what other people perceive as the floor to add to my stock of information.

I asked for a specific answer, not a lecture. I do not care what you think for anything other than what I asked.

2014 wrote:Egregious anti Chicago trolling going on in this thread, does not compute

CanIGetAnAmen wrote:How come Columbia grads on average make more money than HYS?

Regulus wrote:How much time did you spend abroad? If it wasn't more than a year, then those grades likely won't count towards your LSDAS GPA.

Also, if your goal is HYSC, and you know what it takes to get into these schools, you are heading in the wrong direction. You had a 3.79 last time you asked this question, and now you're at a 3.71. Upward trends show that someone has matured and figured out the importance of school, whereas downward trends show just the opposite.

CanIGetAnAmen wrote:Why do Columbia grads on average make more money than HYS?

Kobaine51 wrote:

Clearlynotstefan wrote:Do not write a gpa addendum to explain a few b's. Google law school numbers. Has everything you need. As far as the lsat, it's a common question, but also misguided around here, you don't pick a score, then study...you study as best you can, earn your score, then pick a school. Study for 180. Don't settle.

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I asked for a specific answer, not a lecture. I do not care what you think for anything other than what I asked.

2014 wrote:Egregious anti Chicago trolling going on in this thread, does not compute

CanIGetAnAmen wrote:Why do Columbia grads on average make more money than HYS?

Ling520 wrote:

CanIGetAnAmen wrote:Why do Columbia grads on average make more money than HYS?

On what measure?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenha ... ting-rich/
"The best school if you want to get paid well is Stanford Law School, which tops our list with mid-career median pay of $236,000."

jbagelboy wrote:

Ling520 wrote:

CanIGetAnAmen wrote:Why do Columbia grads on average make more money than HYS?

On what measure?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenha ... ting-rich/
"The best school if you want to get paid well is Stanford Law School, which tops our list with mid-career median pay of $236,000."

Columbia is #1 for mean pay out of law school according to the actual forbes ranking. Stanford is #1 for mid career.

Columbia dominates the out of LS figure because more HYS kids get prestigious fed clerkships, which are lower paying than market salary at large NYC firms.

untar614 wrote:

jbagelboy wrote:

Ling520 wrote:

CanIGetAnAmen wrote:Why do Columbia grads on average make more money than HYS?

On what measure?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenha ... ting-rich/
"The best school if you want to get paid well is Stanford Law School, which tops our list with mid-career median pay of $236,000."

Columbia is #1 for mean pay out of law school according to the actual forbes ranking. Stanford is #1 for mid career.

Columbia dominates the out of LS figure because more HYS kids get prestigious fed clerkships, which are lower paying than market salary at large NYC firms.

The more recent editions of that article give the same results: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45eg ... -school-2/
Columbia has the top median pay right out of school, but HLS is the clear winner mid-career. In fact, CLS seems to lag several other schools in the mid-career pay metric. Any thoughts as to why this might be the case?

Ling520 wrote:

untar614 wrote:

jbagelboy wrote:
Columbia is #1 for mean pay out of law school according to the actual forbes ranking. Stanford is #1 for mid career.

Columbia dominates the out of LS figure because more HYS kids get prestigious fed clerkships, which are lower paying than market salary at large NYC firms.

The more recent editions of that article give the same results: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45eg ... -school-2/
Columbia has the top median pay right out of school, but HLS is the clear winner mid-career. In fact, CLS seems to lag several other schools in the mid-career pay metric. Any thoughts as to why this might be the case?

I think jbagelboy covered it with the prestigious fed clerkships.

untar614 wrote:The more recent editions of that article give the same results: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45eg ... -school-2/
Columbia has the top median pay right out of school, but HLS is the clear winner mid-career. In fact, CLS seems to lag several other schools in the mid-career pay metric. Any thoughts as to why this might be the case?