Top Law Schools

top 5% + Law review at TTT like Drake/Albany/Mercer/NYLS

OR

top top 1/2 at somewhere like GULC/Duke/Cornell

Former.

The latter

Latter but only if its dook

Former, I think. Law school is pretty difficult no matter where you go, from what I gather. Top 5% is impressive anywhere, plus students at lower ranked schools are often more competitive than students at higher ranked schools (due to the desire to transfer).

Label whores

traehekat wrote:Former, I think. Law school is pretty difficult no matter where you go, from what I gather. Top 5% is impressive anywhere, plus students at lower ranked schools are often more competitive than students at higher ranked schools (due to the desire to transfer).

+1

You guys realize you are talking about top third at Cornell vs. top 5% at New York Law School, right? Right? How is this even a question?

The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.

Bosque wrote:You guys realize you are talking about top third at Cornell vs. top 5% at New York Law School, right? Right? How is this even a question?

The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.

Aren't those roughly the biglaw cutoffs ITE?

Any TLSer that says former is a dirty liar tryin to look good

Oli wrote:Any TLSer that says former is a dirty liar tryin to look good

TITCR. TLS

im_blue wrote:

Bosque wrote:You guys realize you are talking about top third at Cornell vs. top 5% at New York Law School, right? Right? How is this even a question?

The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.

Aren't those roughly the biglaw cutoffs ITE?

Top 5% at NYLS was the biglaw cut-off before ITE.

The former is more impressive, but I would rather be the latter.

traehekat wrote:Former, I think. Law school is pretty difficult no matter where you go, from what I gather. Top 5% is impressive anywhere, plus students at lower ranked schools are often more competitive than students at higher ranked schools (due to the desire to transfer).

It may be difficult but its graded on a curve. People at Georgetown are smarter on average.

rayiner wrote:

im_blue wrote:

Bosque wrote:You guys realize you are talking about top third at Cornell vs. top 5% at New York Law School, right? Right? How is this even a question?

The lack of research and foresight it took to actually enroll there kinda disqualifies them from the competition.

Aren't those roughly the biglaw cutoffs ITE?

Top 5% at NYLS was the biglaw cut-off before ITE.

ITE would probably make the cuttoff top 2/3%, now making biglaw practically out of reach for NYLS peeps. gone are the days when NYLS students had a realistic chance at biglaw.

Thirteen wrote:The former is more impressive, but I would rather be the latter.

TITCR.

I say the latter. Doing well in law school is one thing, but getting into a top law shows long-term commitment.

This is an interesting question. I don't know which I would choose.

This is going to sound elitist, but while those top 5%ers at TTTs are usually pretty damn smart, they are competing against a curve of lots of relatively unintelligent people.

JazzOne wrote:I say the latter. Doing well in law school is one thing, but getting into a top law shows long-term commitment.

Seriously? The minimum for getting into Cornell requires four years of slacking in UG and excelling for three hours of your life.

vanwinkle wrote:

JazzOne wrote:I say the latter. Doing well in law school is one thing, but getting into a top law shows long-term commitment.

Seriously? The minimum for getting into Cornell requires four years of slacking in UG and excelling for three hours of your life.

Few people excel for those three hours without a lot of prep (either in UG or independently).

vanwinkle wrote:

JazzOne wrote:I say the latter. Doing well in law school is one thing, but getting into a top law shows long-term commitment.

Seriously? The minimum for getting into Cornell requires four years of slacking in UG and excelling for three hours of your life.

And the minimum for NYLS is four years slacking and then massively fucking up a three hour test.

what is more impressive?

the person you meet that says he graduated from Georgetown Law

or

the person you meet that graduated from NYLS or John Marshall but insists he graduated at the top of his class

if you asked me when phrased this way there is no way i would be more impressed by the TTTT individual

Desert Fox wrote:

traehekat wrote:Former, I think. Law school is pretty difficult no matter where you go, from what I gather. Top 5% is impressive anywhere, plus students at lower ranked schools are often more competitive than students at higher ranked schools (due to the desire to transfer).

It may be difficult but its graded on a curve. People at Georgetown are smarter on average.

+1, I have a bit of perspective on this

I went to one of the low-ranked schools you mentioned for UG (it wasn't Harvard, but the UG there is a bit more respectable than the law school). I know a few people from UG who wound up at the law school on full tuition schollys and finished top 15-20%, which while a ways from top 5%, is still pretty high up, and while these were resonably bright people, there is no way they were qualified for Georgetown or better. If you were talking about top 5% at say, Florida, Colorado, American, etc, I think you would have a pretty good question. Also, I'm not sure how competitive it was, but from what I could gater I don't think most people were working super hard trying to transfer up, as many would have been content just to get a job in the state.

Which one describes you best?

Attending a T2/T3 school with hopes of Big Law

OR

Attending a lower T-14 and are worried about career prospects?

Space_Cowboy wrote:Which one describes you best?

Attending a T2/T3 school with hopes of Big Law

OR

Attending a lower T-14 and are worried about career prospects?

Not sure if that is directed at me, but in any case I was talking about my undergrad...

And if it is directed at me, then neither(middle tier 1 or upper tier 2/JAG/SJA)...