White Lie to Transfer? Forum

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[RaceJudicata]

I think its a bad idea because it doesn't matter. I think your actual reason for transferring (pursuing prosecutor/DA role) is more compelling than "pursuing big law."

And were you seriously going to write the words "big law" in a personal statement? Yikes.

[A. Nony Mouse]

Employment period makes a school's numbers better. So I would say it's a bad idea.

If you want to work in the area where the transfer school is located, or the transfer school has some kind of connection to a particular DA's office that your current school doesn't, those are excellent things to highlight.

Why do you actually want to transfer?

[GreatBraffsby]

Hello. First time poster to TLS, but a long time reader.

I am in the midst of lining up applications to transfer to another law school. My goal after law school is to become a prosecutor in a large-metro area DA's office. It's a small white lie, but I am debating saying I wish to pursue a career in big law for all of my personal statements/reasons to transfer letters because I think an admissions committee rather see that someone is devoted to pursuing big law since it makes the schools employment numbers better?

Good idea, bad idea, or does it not matter?

In my experience, schools like to think of themselves as more than factories for highly-paid corporate lawyers. Almost every view book emphasizes how students and alumni impact communities and that the education offered at X law school is holistic/big picture/aims to create thoughtful graduates. Skeptics probably dismiss this as window dressing to paint over the fact that law schools are essentially businesses, but I think law schools schools do see themselves as something nobler than the means to a high paying job.

Not only would this kind of thing be unethical, which is important for the bar and the profession, but would probably hurt your application anyways. Just my two cents.

[Nebby]

No school gives a shit of you want to go into BigLaw. They've got plenty of them anyway. If you want to be an ADA, then tell them. There are 3 people from my transfer class at CLS that are going to a couple DA offices in NYC

[sdancer89]

I want to be a PD and made that clear in my transfer applications. I was accepted at multiple T14s without a problem.

[NoDayButToday]

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