marknsanchez wrote:
You are mistaken about the employment stats.
Before we proceed - you know school self-reported stats are bunk, right? Just making sure.
Like I've said, I've done my research and most of these schools are very well reputable in their respective regions. Chapman and Southwestern for example are not considered by TLS as the best schools but in LA they are right up there with USC, UCLA and Loyola.
Let's get one thing straight. Loyola is not even really "up there." They're no doing so hot. In fact, they refused to release employment stats to USNWR for the 2010 ranking. USNWR assumes a certain low percentage if a school does not report; logically, this was even higher than the actual employment %, or Loyola would have reported. Remember how "Loyola 2L" trumpeted on the internet about how Loyola was grossly inflating its numbers and telling people to stay away? Well Chapman and Southwestern are worse. California itself is in deep shit, what with de facto hiring freezes for local govt., etc.
I don't understand the aversion of people wanting to work a little harder than the T14 grad upon entering the job market.
lolwut
One can't just "work harder" to get the jobs; prestige factors into this as well.
You may not even get a legal job at all. That is part of the problem. And your school's rep won't really leave you, at least not for years. People love to say how after your first one of two jobs, it doesn't matter where you went. The problem is, you may not get a good 1st or 2nd job, which will lead to more of the same.