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Suffolk ($$$$) v. BU

Poll ended at Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:15 pm

Stay at Suffolk
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Go to BU
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Total votes: 4

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Post by gwillhunting » Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:15 pm

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Re: Transfer Suffolk to BU?

Post by yomisterd » Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:22 pm

what's class rank? seems like you could get Boston Big Law with top 5-10% at Suffolk? Plus full scholly you'd be in a good position.

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Post by gwillhunting » Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:25 pm

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Re: Transfer Suffolk to BU?

Post by TheOnePercent » Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:36 pm

Seems like you already have Boston ties (which is a help). Is Suffolk pre-select? Do firms you want to work for actually come on campus to recruit?

The theoretical argument for tranfering (imo) would be access to firms you otherwise wouldn't sit before (can't get an offer if you're never interviewed).

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Re: Transfer Suffolk to BU?

Post by yomisterd » Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:10 am

gwillhunting wrote:They don't rank us after one semester. From what I have heard, only about 10 to 15 people max get big law offers out of about 400.
agh. that's tough then.

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Re: Transfer Suffolk to BU?

Post by fratstar1 » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:46 am

I know a few top students from suffolk came to BC and managed to grab big law......they hustled there asses off though. I assume the same is for BU. Its a 100k gamble tho.

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Re: Transfer Suffolk to BU?

Post by TheOnePercent » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:07 pm

gwillhunting wrote:about 10 to 15 firms come up suffolk to recruit but several that I want to work at do not such as latham, morgan, jones day, nutter; etc.
That's a small sample of firms. I'd chat with your professors - even administrators at school - to 1) get a better sense of where your 3.9 places you in the class distribution and 2) get a sense if anyone would speak on your behalf to firms directly (preferably an adjunct who recently has practiced - maybe a legal writing professor - who has the finger on local firms).

If you really are that top person or two in the class of ~400 (so safely w/in the small sample Suffolk places into large firms annually), I think you stay. If you are close, but on the outside looking in (statistically), that's when the marginal improvement in firm access at a regional like BU/BC would be more appropriate.

Requires granular, school-specific intel though.

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