michaelm55 wrote:I am very excited for this cycle and hope to gain admission, but I would encourage all my fellow TLS gurus to check out the law school transparency employment statistics for this fantastic school. It would appear that for a number of reasons, the employment stats are not up to par with some of UMN's peer schools. Of course, it could appear this way for a number of reasons (including employment stat boosting by competing schools), but it is worth checking out none-the-less. Most of you probably already have, and again... good luck!

I'll add to this by saying that the career services people at the U are very accessible to prospective students. If you shoot them an email they'll get back to you. I had a bunch of questions for Alan Haynes, the director, and he was very open with me.
People should also realize that MN doesn't have much of a biglaw market, and Chicago is super-saturated right now, so if you're biglaw or bust you should really be looking at schools that feed primarily into NY or higher-ranked schools.