Please help me choose. I am very confused on what I should do. Thanks in advance!
I just finished my 1L year at Seattle U. I did pretty well (around top 10%...I may have just missed the 10% cutoff (think 9-12%)...but I won't know for certain what my exact rank is until August when the part-timers / summer torts class finishes). I am very fortunate to have options.
I really like SU (the professors, the location, the students, the city, etc). I would be happy to graduate from SU. But here are my concerns about SU:
1) I am worried about my career prospects because I want to clerk for a federal judge for 1 year after law school and / or work in BigLaw (optimally in Seattle in corporate law - either transactional or litigation....not sure which yet),
2) the classes offered at SU don't seem to be as business focused as I would like (though they have enough business-oriented classes for me to take I think...just not quite the selection of some of the T-14 or top 20 schools), and
3) the students at SU are bloody smart, and I am concerned that my rank could fall in 2L or 3L (you never know, as law school grading seems somewhat arbitrary).
Just so you know, SU has ~40 employers coming to OCI (most of which are Seattle BigLaw, but only 21 interview slots are available for each employer and employers seem to pick who they want to interview). I am not sure if this selection of OCI employers and method of OCI interview bidding will work for or against me. Thoughts?
I have good work experience and a graduate degree that I think law firms will appreciate during OCI. I have a reasonable summer internship during 1L summer. I also know some attorneys in Seattle (including Partners in BigLaw) that I have worked with before law school in a substantive capacity. From the research I have done, these BigLaw connections probably are only marginally helpful during OCI (it may make a difference later for lateral moves, however).
I really liked legal writing, so I would like to be on law review at whatever school I go to (I won't find out if I made SU's write-on until late August).
Prestige is kind of important to me. And T-14 schools have always been my dream (don't know if any of them will be possibilities)...praying that they will be though.
Please note that I have been a long-time lurker and an infrequent poster. I created a new account to protect my anonymity for this poll since transferring is a touchy subject and I am providing a fair amount of info about myself.
P.S.: I will try to update this poll as new decision options roll in (if any).
Some other schools that I applied to that *may (read: hopefully)* be added to this poll are:
* T-14 schools (sans HYSCCN) - I blanketed them because transferring seems to be relatively haphazard / uncertain in terms of admission.
* University of Washington
