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So there has been some rumor about job placement being very low at Georgetwon... is this true? How was job placement at Northwestern?

eiluj39 wrote:So there has been some rumor about job placement being very low at Georgetwon... is this true? How was job placement at Northwestern?

I have heard that someone in the career development office at Gtown stated that 50% of the 2010 grads don't have jobs. This can, however, be somewhat due to a sense of entitlement.

anyone hear about Northwestern this year?

eiluj39 wrote:anyone hear about Northwestern this year?

i heard something like 60% of 2Ls this year got a job at OCI.

as an NU 1L, though, i could be off on that.

Anonymous User wrote:

eiluj39 wrote:anyone hear about Northwestern this year?

i heard something like 60% of 2Ls this year got a job at OCI.

as an NU 1L, though, i could be off on that.

If OP is asking about 2010 jobs at graduation, then Northwestern 2L OCI doesn't provide a point of comparison. My intuition suggests that the class size differences and other factors lead to a disparity in employment prospects greater than 10%.
Re-OP, I can't answer the question as to 2010 employed at graduation, but I am sure someone else can.

Anonymous User wrote:

eiluj39 wrote:anyone hear about Northwestern this year?

i heard something like 60% of 2Ls this year got a job at OCI.

as an NU 1L, though, i could be off on that.

heard slightly less

According to the town hall meeting, it was "about 60%" as of October.

Northwestern reported that their job situation was virtually unchanged. I think this is likely to be pretty accurate.

There are specific reasons why Georgetown would place very poorly in this market, especially compared to Northwestern.

Namely, Job experience.

I heard Northwestern placed around 1/3...but it's probably still better than Georgetown.
There are significantly fewer than 200 offices going to NU's OCI, but NU has a much smaller class size than Georgetown.

To the last two posters: it might be useful to say where (generally speaking) you heard this.

Anonymous User wrote:To the last two posters: it might be useful to say where (generally speaking) you heard this.

Check your OCI bid list to confirm # of offices, unless you are a 0L. Heard this from other NU rising 2Ls.

Anonymous User wrote: There are significantly fewer than 200 offices going to NU's OCI, but NU has a much smaller class size than Georgetown.

Fewer than 200 offices? There are over 550 offices at UVA's OGI. You must mean firms.

2Ls have only have been notified of the firms coming in the first couple of week I believe, so where did you get the total number of firms?

Anonymous User wrote:According to the town hall meeting, it was "about 60%" as of October.

As an NU student, the 60% number reported at Town Hall sounds right. I have quite a few other friends who were targeting PI that landed jobs later in the fall.

Thus far, there appear to be 160 firms coming to campus in the fall.

chadwick218 wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:According to the town hall meeting, it was "about 60%" as of October.

As an NU student, the 60% number reported at Town Hall sounds right. I have quite a few other friends who were targeting PI that landed jobs later in the fall.

Thus far, there appear to be 160 firms coming to campus in the fall.

I think that NU likely fared a little bit better than GULC this year. OP, if you are deciding b/w GULC and NU, I think that this decision largely turns on where you ideally want to practice and what type of law school environment attracts you.

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