Cornell Class of 2017 Forum

PrideandGlory1776 · Post by **PrideandGlory1776** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:59 am

Cornell is up to #6 in terms of outcomes better than every school but Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Penn and Chicago:

http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/career ... istics.cfm

57.5 (100+ firms) + 10.9 (Federal Clerkship) = 68.4%

This changes everything!

Lavitz · Post by **Lavitz** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:01 am

PrideandGlory1776 wrote:Cornell is up to #6 in terms of outcomes better than every school but Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Penn and Chicago:

--LinkRemoved-- ... istics.cfm

57.5 (100+ firms) + 10.9 (Federal Clerkship) = 68.4%

This changes everything!

EVERYTHING.

AAJD2B · Post by **AAJD2B** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:14 am

PrideandGlory1776 wrote:Cornell is up to #6 in terms of outcomes better than every school but Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Penn and Chicago:

http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/career ... istics.cfm

57.5 (100+ firms) + 10.9 (Federal Clerkship) = 68.4%

This changes everything!

Have you made a decision ? mrgreen:

Winter is Coming · Post by **Winter is Coming** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 1:22 pm

Ah those look nice.

What's the deal with the school funded jobs at Cornell? Seems like there's a huge difference at a lot of (even T14 schools) as to what those actually mean career-wise.

Lavitz · Post by **Lavitz** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:40 am

In case anyone's interested, we have a new dean: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/spotli ... w-Dean.cfm

Winter is Coming wrote:What's the deal with the school funded jobs at Cornell? Seems like there's a huge difference at a lot of (even T14 schools) as to what those actually mean career-wise.

The Rhodes Public Interest Law Fellowship is legit, but I don't know what the others are like.

Thiggs · Post by **Thiggs** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:49 pm

All I want is scholarship info to be released! Ah! It's the last piece of the puzzle and is preventing me from finalizing a decision. This has been a long process...

Winter is Coming · Post by **Winter is Coming** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:21 pm

Wait on LSAT score, wait on letters of recommendation, wait on decision, wait on money, wait on grades, wait on callbacks, wait on retirement…

Marshmallow · Post by **Marshmallow** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:25 pm

Winter is Coming wrote:Wait on LSAT score, wait on letters of recommendation, wait on decision, wait on money, wait on grades, wait on callbacks, wait on retirement…

holy crap +1

vicpin5190 · Post by **vicpin5190** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:42 pm

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King Cayuga · Post by **King Cayuga** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:38 pm

Got my aid letter today! Just submitted the last documents on last Friday, other stuff was sent in 2 weeks ago. 30K/year and I'm barely above both 75ths!

bombaysippin · Post by **bombaysippin** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:42 pm

King Cayuga wrote:Got my aid letter today! Just submitted the last documents on last Friday, other stuff was sent in 2 weeks ago. 30K/year and I'm barely above both 75ths!

When were you accepted? Wondering if they're doing it by acceptances and by the dates documents were sent.

Cornell why are you so slow with your entire process (I still love you)?

ETA: Did you also apply for both need/merit or just merit?

vicpin5190 · Post by **vicpin5190** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:51 pm

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King Cayuga · Post by **King Cayuga** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:09 pm

Bajam wrote:
King Cayuga wrote:Got my aid letter today! Just submitted the last documents on last Friday, other stuff was sent in 2 weeks ago. 30K/year and I'm barely above both 75ths!
When were you accepted? Wondering if they're doing it by acceptances and by the dates documents were sent.

Cornell why are you so slow with your entire process (I still love you)?

ETA: Did you also apply for both need/merit or just merit?

I was accepted in mid-November and applied for both need and merit(no clue how they arrived at the scholly number, probably a mix of both).

bombaysippin · Post by **bombaysippin** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:40 pm

King Cayuga wrote:
Bajam wrote:
King Cayuga wrote:Got my aid letter today! Just submitted the last documents on last Friday, other stuff was sent in 2 weeks ago. 30K/year and I'm barely above both 75ths!
When were you accepted? Wondering if they're doing it by acceptances and by the dates documents were sent.

Cornell why are you so slow with your entire process (I still love you)?

ETA: Did you also apply for both need/merit or just merit?
I was accepted in mid-November and applied for both need and merit(no clue how they arrived at the scholly number, probably a mix of both).

Ty ty

Winter is Coming · Post by **Winter is Coming** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:56 am

vicpin5190 wrote:
Winter is Coming wrote:Wait on LSAT score, wait on letters of recommendation, wait on decision, wait on money, wait on grades, wait on callbacks, wait on retirement…

appropriate user name for a post like this

I swear I'm not this unpleasant in real life, but TLS has never seemed like a place where rosy optimism goes over well

HBBJohnStamos · Post by **HBBJohnStamos** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:22 am

vicpin5190 wrote:
Winter is Coming wrote:Wait on LSAT score, wait on letters of recommendation, wait on decision, wait on money, wait on grades, wait on callbacks, wait on retirement…

appropriate user name for a post like this

W$RKliveWELL · Post by **W$RKliveWELL** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:25 pm

Just got my financial aid award attended the most recent ASW. It's extremely competitive but it did not seal the deal for me.

edit: URM, came snail mail and I attended the most recent ASW

vicpin5190 · Post by **vicpin5190** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:52 pm

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Serett · Post by **Serett** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:55 pm

For people getting aid, were you all interviewed, and how far from New York are you?

W$RKliveWELL · Post by **W$RKliveWELL** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:57 pm

vicpin5190 wrote:
W$RKliveWELL wrote:Just got my financial aid award attended the most recent ASW. It's extremely competitive but it did not seal the deal for me.

edit: URM, came snail mail and I attended the most recent ASW

When did you turn your application in?

Applied end of Oct. No interview. very close to NY.

PrideandGlory1776 · Post by **PrideandGlory1776** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:59 pm

Can people who recieved snail mail either PM me or answer the following:

1) Relative distance from NY
2) Relative LSAT/GPA range & Relative Scholly Amount
3) Applied/Accepted Dates

Thanks so much!

Serett · Post by **Serett** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:02 pm

W$RKliveWELL wrote:
vicpin5190 wrote:
W$RKliveWELL wrote:Just got my financial aid award attended the most recent ASW. It's extremely competitive but it did not seal the deal for me.

edit: URM, came snail mail and I attended the most recent ASW

When did you turn your application in?

Applied end of Oct. No interview. very close to NY.

Wonderful, thank you!

vicpin5190 · Post by **vicpin5190** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:09 pm

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barrelofmonkeys · Post by **barrelofmonkeys** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:10 pm

vicpin5190 wrote:did your status checker change to reflect a mailing sent out?

mine did not!

FlanAl · Post by **FlanAl** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:19 pm

Winter is Coming wrote:Ah those look nice.

What's the deal with the school funded jobs at Cornell? Seems like there's a huge difference at a lot of (even T14 schools) as to what those actually mean career-wise.

There's the HT rhodes scholarship which is a two year funded thing and pays a pretty competitive starting salary for PI. Its very similar to an EJW or skadden fellowship but is only open to cornell students.

I'm really not sure about the other ones but here are my guesses:

Cornell guarantees you funding of like 1k per month to volunteer at a public interest org for I think up to 16 months. They mainly do this so that kids who want to work at say a DA or SA office that just won't hire anybody until they have their bar results (state policy or whatever) don't starve while they volunteer at that office. Its really not a lot of money but its just meant to take the sting out of volunteering.

I've noticed over the years that a few graduates have stuck around to do research assistant type stuff for certain professors. Each of these people either went to clerk or went to big law and were on law review etc. so I feel like maybe there are a few school funded positions for academic research.