Elite law and Big law

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's a little easier to get into Big Law from a T14, but there are still a great number of #15-50 law schools represented. I graduated from a non-coastal law school traditionally ranked in the 15-20 range and had offers from Cravath, Skadden, Gibson Dunn, and a couple other big firms. I had good grades and was on law review, but I wasn't a superstar.

If you were on law review, you were top of your class. I doubt your classmates who were lower ranked got hired out of law school into biglaw. I went to a top 14 law school. Nearly everyone who wanted a job in biglaw got one.

Agree with this but this is still not enough people to fill Biglaw needs. That is why there are lots from lower ranked schools. The lower the school, the higher you need to be in the class. Everyone at a 25-50 school can't get to BigLaw but those at the top can.

Agreed, there are some who make it to biglaw from lower ranked schools. But it's a harder road and you have to be high in your class. No one going in knows where they are going to rank in their law school class. So you're taking a bigger risk at a lower ranked law school if your goal is biglaw.