Ok, let's be realistic...which law schools are elite? Forum

[dr123]

Cooley, Florida Coastal, maybe MAYBE yale

[98234872348]

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[Stanford4Me]

Pepperdine.

[retake]

T1?

T30?

T25?

T20?

T17?

T14?

T10?

T6?

HYS?

HY?

Yale?

[flcath]

What does it mean to separate this from both USNews rankings and lay prestige?

Edit: But I do appreciate the "let's be realistic" line in the thread title.

[Bildungsroman]

Beyond lay prestige and USNWR rankings, which law schools can realistically be considered elite? t14 + Texas, UCLA, Vanderbilt, USC, WUSTL, GWU, Emory? Who am I missing...or am I being too liberal?

I like how you say "Beyond ... USNWR rankings" and then list schools in order of their USNWR ranking without omitting any before ending at Emory. Thread should be titled "Where in the USNWR rankings does elite status end"? In which case, T14.

[bigben]

None of them. Law school is for strivers whose best case scenario is to become a slightly upper middle class, severely overworked wage slave.

[flcath]

Beyond lay prestige and USNWR rankings, which law schools can realistically be considered elite? t14 + Texas, UCLA, Vanderbilt, USC, WUSTL, GWU, Emory? Who am I missing...or am I being too liberal?

I like how you say "Beyond ... USNWR rankings" and then list schools in order of their USNWR ranking without omitting any before ending at Emory. Thread should be titled "Where in the USNWR rankings does elite status end"? In which case, T14.

Heinous GULC trolling

[Veyron]

T-14/thread.

[notanumber]

Litchfield Law School - everything else is TTT.

1100 grads - 2 VP's, 101 Congressmen, 28 Senators, 6 cabinet secretaries, 3 SCOTUS justices

TITCR.

Litchfield was so baller that they didn't even give out degrees or have exams. You just went there for awhile and eventually the guy who ran it would write you a letter of recommendation.

A certain school in New Haven was little more than a cheap Litchfield knock-off founded by a guy whose legal education was hand copying some other guy's Litchfield lecture notes.

[flcath]

Litchfield Law School - everything else is TTT.

1100 grads - 2 VP's, 101 Congressmen, 28 Senators, 6 cabinet secretaries, 3 SCOTUS justices

TITCR.

Litchfield was so baller that they didn't even give out degrees or have exams. You just went there for awhile and eventually the guy who ran it would write you a letter of recommendation.

A certain school in New Haven was little more than a cheap Litchfield knock-off founded by a guy whose legal education was hand copying some other guy's Litchfield lecture notes.

Interesting... Litchfield Law School trolling...

[clintonius]

Beyond lay prestige and USNWR rankings, which law schools can realistically be considered elite? t14 + Texas, UCLA, Vanderbilt, USC, WUSTL, GWU, Emory? Who am I missing...or am I being too liberal?

Harvard, Yale, Stanford.

MAYBE Columbia, NYU, Berkeley, Chicago.

MAYBE Chicago? Seriously? Take your four posts elsewhere.

You're going to get pissy about "maybe" Chicago, but not "maybe" Columbia? Take youre whopping 135 posts elsewhere.

Also,

Princeton Law, maybe Dartmouth Law (not UMass Dartmouth)

"Princeton University does award honorary degrees of law. Sonia Sotomayor, then Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States received an Honorary Doctor of Law Degrees from Princeton University."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Law_School

They've given out less than 200 law degrees. Bill Clinton has one. So do Lawrence Summers and Paul Volker. Kofi Annan got one too, but he was URM.

I lol'd

[Longhorn88]

This thread is pointless. Truly elite students skip their high school prom because they're taking the bar the next day.

[notanumber]

Litchfield Law School - everything else is TTT.

1100 grads - 2 VP's, 101 Congressmen, 28 Senators, 6 cabinet secretaries, 3 SCOTUS justices

TITCR.

Litchfield was so baller that they didn't even give out degrees or have exams. You just went there for awhile and eventually the guy who ran it would write you a letter of recommendation.

A certain school in New Haven was little more than a cheap Litchfield knock-off founded by a guy whose legal education was hand copying some other guy's Litchfield lecture notes.

Interesting... Litchfield Law School trolling...

No trollin' here. . . I didn't get in.

There's some thought that Staples, the guy who founded YLS, fronted about having gone to Litchfield. Isaac Parker, the guy who founded HLS, regularly talked about using Litchfield as his model.

[artichoke]

Wait until I decide where I'm going, then I'll let you know.

[KibblesAndVick]

The fact that I learned something new and interesting from this thread really surprises me...

[DeeCee]

The fact that I learned something new and interesting from this thread really surprises me...

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[NU_Jet55]

The one that will get you a job that you want.

This was not given enough credit.

[2011Law]

The only law school worth going to is Princeton Law School. All others are simply second class.

[Bildungsroman]

The only law school worth going to is Princeton Law School. All others are simply second class.

The 4th "Princeton Law" joke in 2 pages.

[megaTTTron]

The only law school worth going to is Princeton Law School. All others are simply second class.

The 4th "Princeton Law" joke in 2 pages.

Yea this thread (and the 500 like it that were started this past month) is (are) getting old.

[2011Law]

The only law school worth going to is Princeton Law School. All others are simply second class.

The 4th "Princeton Law" joke in 2 pages.

Yea this thread (and the 500 like it that were started this past month) is (are) getting old.

My bad, didn't check the other posts. I'll do that next time.

[09042014]

HYSCCN are the only truly elite schools, and that's being EXTREMELY generous to N.

Have you seen Uchi students. No way are they elite.

[retake]

HYSCCN are the only truly elite schools, and that's being EXTREMELY generous to N.

Have you seen Uchi students. No way are they elite.

Ur just mad because u go to a festering TTT. T14 is a meaningless distinction ITE.

[RPK34]

God, I'm at least glad I learned about Litchfield. But this thread is a pile of shit.