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Applied 11/15. Application acknowledged 11/16

File has been in review since 10/28.

Accepted today! Online status checker says "Decision Rendered" and "Admission Granted. Offer sent via mail." Haven't received the letter yet though.

Accepted today via status checker.

Hi guys! Congrats to those who were accepted. Would you guys mind posting your numbers and the date you applied?

Kk11 wrote:Hi guys! Congrats to those who were accepted. Would you guys mind posting your numbers and the date you applied?

163, 3.83, Applied 10/27

App submitted 11/30, In review 11/3!

Accepted 11/30 via status checker, never received an email

Just got my letter in the mail, with scholly info.

Didn't receive a phone call, status update or email but I did get a packet in the mail yesterday! 35k scholarship. Anyone accepted thinking of attending a visit?

Received a 75% scholarship. Anyone else put off by the high number of state-level clerkships? I'm going to contact the school to see if they can give me some more info. My boss was very leery about that type of placement and I can't find much positive info about it. Anyone else looked into it further?

Got in with a distinguished scholars scholarship, definitely put them back on my list. Any ideas when the asw is?

In today with 15k/year. Good luck to everyone else!

guybourdin wrote:Received a 75% scholarship. Anyone else put off by the high number of state-level clerkships? I'm going to contact the school to see if they can give me some more info. My boss was very leery about that type of placement and I can't find much positive info about it. Anyone else looked into it further?

bourdin, can you post when you get this info? I'm actually really curious regarding mentioned issue.

simonjones wrote:

guybourdin wrote:Received a 75% scholarship. Anyone else put off by the high number of state-level clerkships? I'm going to contact the school to see if they can give me some more info. My boss was very leery about that type of placement and I can't find much positive info about it. Anyone else looked into it further?

bourdin, can you post when you get this info? I'm actually really curious regarding mentioned issue.

I contacted the admissions office that day (I think; maybe the following). They said they would put together some contact info for me (inc recent alum who ended up with those positions and career services) in the next few days. Still haven't heard back from them... I think that high placement is a little too scary for me and unfortunate they haven't reached back out yet. I'll make sure to let you know if they do!

Is anyone going to the admitted students event today?

simonjones wrote:

guybourdin wrote:Received a 75% scholarship. Anyone else put off by the high number of state-level clerkships? I'm going to contact the school to see if they can give me some more info. My boss was very leery about that type of placement and I can't find much positive info about it. Anyone else looked into it further?

bourdin, can you post when you get this info? I'm actually really curious regarding mentioned issue.

this is really more of a NJ thing, pretty much all the judges in NJ take students as their clerks for a year, and apparently a lot of employers require a year of clerking so it really isn't much to base things off of. Though Seton Hall does claim on their site that they track their grads and that 98% are employed after their clerkships, however it is soley based on their comments that they keep track of their students themselves. It said the % was based off of hearing back from 114 of 115 grads that had a clerkship or something like that

Still nothing from the school. The concern is they keep track of the grads but not in a way nearly as helpful as the 509 reports. Specifically, they say a huge percent are in private practice, but they don't break that down into size of the firm. Could be a bunch of 2-10 person firms of even solo, so it's not super helpful.

I would just like more info. State supreme court or appeals would be more attractive than small claims...the info they put out is too vague for me right now. I'm hopeful they give me some good info because the school is pretty attractive to me.

guybourdin wrote:Still nothing from the school. The concern is they keep track of the grads but not in a way nearly as helpful as the 509 reports. Specifically, they say a huge percent are in private practice, but they don't break that down into size of the firm. Could be a bunch of 2-10 person firms of even solo, so it's not super helpful.

I would just like more info. State supreme court or appeals would be more attractive than small claims...the info they put out is too vague for me right now. I'm hopeful they give me some good info because the school is pretty attractive to me.

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... more/2013/

This will have a little more info youre looking for

dmp1323 wrote:

guybourdin wrote:Still nothing from the school. The concern is they keep track of the grads but not in a way nearly as helpful as the 509 reports. Specifically, they say a huge percent are in private practice, but they don't break that down into size of the firm. Could be a bunch of 2-10 person firms of even solo, so it's not super helpful.

I would just like more info. State supreme court or appeals would be more attractive than small claims...the info they put out is too vague for me right now. I'm hopeful they give me some good info because the school is pretty attractive to me.

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... more/2013/

This will have a little more info youre looking for

That doesn't have any of the info I'm looking for. They say they keep track of what students do post-clerkship - see: http://law.shu.edu/admissions_includes/ ... p-2013.jpg - but the numbers they post are vague. That is: what size firms are they going to after their clerkships? What percentage of government jobs require bar passage?

guybourdin wrote:

dmp1323 wrote:

guybourdin wrote:Still nothing from the school. The concern is they keep track of the grads but not in a way nearly as helpful as the 509 reports. Specifically, they say a huge percent are in private practice, but they don't break that down into size of the firm. Could be a bunch of 2-10 person firms of even solo, so it's not super helpful.

I would just like more info. State supreme court or appeals would be more attractive than small claims...the info they put out is too vague for me right now. I'm hopeful they give me some good info because the school is pretty attractive to me.

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... more/2013/

This will have a little more info youre looking for

That doesn't have any of the info I'm looking for. They say they keep track of what students do post-clerkship - see: http://law.shu.edu/admissions_includes/ ... p-2013.jpg - but the numbers they post are vague. That is: what size firms are they going to after their clerkships? What percentage of government jobs require bar passage?

Percentage of govt jobs that require bar passage is there, as is the breakdown of law firms (small, medium, and large) which you mentioned earlier. It just doesnt mention clerkships. If clerkships was all you were looking for then i misunderstood, sorry!

dmp1323 wrote:

guybourdin wrote:

dmp1323 wrote:

guybourdin wrote:Still nothing from the school. The concern is they keep track of the grads but not in a way nearly as helpful as the 509 reports. Specifically, they say a huge percent are in private practice, but they don't break that down into size of the firm. Could be a bunch of 2-10 person firms of even solo, so it's not super helpful.

I would just like more info. State supreme court or appeals would be more attractive than small claims...the info they put out is too vague for me right now. I'm hopeful they give me some good info because the school is pretty attractive to me.

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... more/2013/

This will have a little more info youre looking for

That doesn't have any of the info I'm looking for. They say they keep track of what students do post-clerkship - see: http://law.shu.edu/admissions_includes/ ... p-2013.jpg - but the numbers they post are vague. That is: what size firms are they going to after their clerkships? What percentage of government jobs require bar passage?

Percentage of govt jobs that require bar passage is there, as is the breakdown of law firms (small, medium, and large) which you mentioned earlier. It just doesn't mention clerkships. If clerkships was all you were looking for then i misunderstood, sorry!

That really shows mostly grad's and their stats, so each graduating class separately and just that year/9 months w.e it is after graduating. The thing in question is what comes next. A lot of students that graduate SHU (and prob Rutgers id imagine) go have clerkships for a year after graduating so the employment numbers a year out of graduating don't mean all that much, what matters is how many of those people out of their clerkships get real jd jobs and what type of jobs those are... which isn't broken down anywhere, SHU just tells us that 98% of those graduates have jobs after their clerkship

dmp1323 wrote:

guybourdin wrote:

dmp1323 wrote:

guybourdin wrote:Still nothing from the school. The concern is they keep track of the grads but not in a way nearly as helpful as the 509 reports. Specifically, they say a huge percent are in private practice, but they don't break that down into size of the firm. Could be a bunch of 2-10 person firms of even solo, so it's not super helpful.

I would just like more info. State supreme court or appeals would be more attractive than small claims...the info they put out is too vague for me right now. I'm hopeful they give me some good info because the school is pretty attractive to me.

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/ ... more/2013/

This will have a little more info youre looking for

That doesn't have any of the info I'm looking for. They say they keep track of what students do post-clerkship - see: http://law.shu.edu/admissions_includes/ ... p-2013.jpg - but the numbers they post are vague. That is: what size firms are they going to after their clerkships? What percentage of government jobs require bar passage?

Percentage of govt jobs that require bar passage is there, as is the breakdown of law firms (small, medium, and large) which you mentioned earlier. It just doesnt mention clerkships. If clerkships was all you were looking for then i misunderstood, sorry!

Did you look at the link I posted? SH says the keep track of what their students do post-clerkship and posts those numbers, but they post them in a manner that is vague to the point of being scary. Almost 20% in government work but doesn't say what percentage require jd. 60-odd% in private practice but that could be ALL solo and it would still be "accurate".

Thing is, the info they provide they aren't required to provide, so they can provide it in whatever format they want to. You can accept it for what it is, but I question it. It's a simple question - you cant answer it, but I am hopeful they will.

How often do they update the status checker? My status checker has been listed as file incomplete since the beginning of the month(transcript wasn't up to date) but the update was submitted over a week ago as was an email I sent notifying them that updated transcript was received/processed (on 1/21) by lsac.

Quick question about scholarship info. Does that come at the time of acceptance (email/status checker) or only in the letter? Thanks!