This is the most important criteria one can use when choosing a law school.ahnhub wrote:NYU gets a decent amount of play in Hollywood: The whole cast of Gossip Girl/ Ross from Friends/ Theo Huxtable/ Finch from American Pie...when the writer wants shorthand for hip/smart/artsy. When a TV show or movie wants to communicate that a character is super smart, they'll always go with HYPS.
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boosk wrote:This is the most important criteria one can use when choosing a law school.ahnhub wrote:NYU gets a decent amount of play in Hollywood: The whole cast of Gossip Girl/ Ross from Friends/ Theo Huxtable/ Finch from American Pie...when the writer wants shorthand for hip/smart/artsy. When a TV show or movie wants to communicate that a character is super smart, they'll always go with HYPS.
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rayiner wrote:I should point out that I don't think it's good to take lay prestige into account when picking a law school. Because that would lead you to take Duke over the rest of the T4-14. What I'm trying to get at is that not only is lay prestige a stupid reason to pick a law school, but Columbia doesn't have enough for it to be a weighty factor in picking CLS over Penn or NYU. Again, it's not Harvard/Yale.
You should pick amongst CLS/NYU/Penn based on locations and scholarship $$.
Dook? Really? I never thought of Duke as prestigious until I spent time in the South. But I def generally agree with you.
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Duke basketball + reputation for being one of the "smart" sports schools.Lawquacious wrote:rayiner wrote:I should point out that I don't think it's good to take lay prestige into account when picking a law school. Because that would lead you to take Duke over the rest of the T4-14. What I'm trying to get at is that not only is lay prestige a stupid reason to pick a law school, but Columbia doesn't have enough for it to be a weighty factor in picking CLS over Penn or NYU. Again, it's not Harvard/Yale.
You should pick amongst CLS/NYU/Penn based on locations and scholarship $$.
Dook? Really? I never thought of Duke as prestigious until I spent time in the South. But I def generally agree with you.
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I couldn't figure out who this is a picture of.HarlandBassett wrote:
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+1 to EVERYTHING Tiago said. Also from California (East Bay) and just went to a UG basically for football... I'm willing to admit that before I started researching Law Schools a few months ago, I thought when people were talking about Penn on TLS it was shorthand for Penn State... i had to google wtf is Wharton.. only reason I knew Northwestern was because of football recruitment, but still couldn't tell you what state it's in.Tiago Splitter wrote: And now I just found out that Penn has a top 3 med school.
See, normal people throughout the country really have no idea who ranks where. Out west people will ask about Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky if you say that you go to Penn. They'll think you are attending some online school if you say Wharton. They'll nod approvingly whether you say NYU or New York Law School. And after hearing the name Columbia, they'll say "Oh that's a good school. Where is that located again?"
From a California point of view, the T14's lay prestige would probably be Stanford>Berkeley/H/Y>Duke/Columbia>the rest
I did however remember that Topenga was accepted to NYU Law at the end of Boy Meets World
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Again, we need more info like this on TLS so that prospective students can make informed decisions. If I had known this a year ago, who knows where I'd be today.SaintsTheMetal wrote:I did however remember that Topenga was accepted to NYU Law at the end of Boy Meets World
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This made me laugh a bit more than it should have.boosk wrote:Again, we need more info like this on TLS so that prospective students can make informed decisions. If I had known this a year ago, who knows where I'd be today.SaintsTheMetal wrote:I did however remember that Topenga was accepted to NYU Law at the end of Boy Meets World
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notsureifsrs.jpgHeavenWood wrote:You do realize the average person who burns out of a V75-100 after 3-5 years doesn't end up in an appreciably different place than the average person who does the same at a V10, right?WODKilla123 wrote:1st off, MTO is the best litigation shop in the USA. dat Cali sunshine bro.
2nd, y u so mad that NYU grads clean up in the V10 and have way lower grade cut offs than Penn grads? Enjoy your V75-100 breh.
See: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... &start=675 for evidence as to how biglaw associates at the nation's most elite firms routinely say NYU = CLS and lump P with MBV. hth.
Fantasies and delusions aside, I would say NYU has a moderate edge over Penn in NYC (though not enough to warrant paying a whole lot more). Outside there, they're more or less peers.
And transferring from Penn to NYU sounds pointless, at least as far as seeking a career placement advantage goes.
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Quite serious. If at Kelley Drye, rejoice. If at Cravath, get over yourself.WODKilla123 wrote:notsureifsrs.jpgHeavenWood wrote:You do realize the average person who burns out of a V75-100 after 3-5 years doesn't end up in an appreciably different place than the average person who does the same at a V10, right?WODKilla123 wrote:1st off, MTO is the best litigation shop in the USA. dat Cali sunshine bro.
2nd, y u so mad that NYU grads clean up in the V10 and have way lower grade cut offs than Penn grads? Enjoy your V75-100 breh.
See: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... &start=675 for evidence as to how biglaw associates at the nation's most elite firms routinely say NYU = CLS and lump P with MBV. hth.
Fantasies and delusions aside, I would say NYU has a moderate edge over Penn in NYC (though not enough to warrant paying a whole lot more). Outside there, they're more or less peers.
And transferring from Penn to NYU sounds pointless, at least as far as seeking a career placement advantage goes.
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