What are the TOP 5 law schools?
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Anonymous
| I'm not sure if this should be here or on the jobs thread, but currently which law schools are considered TOP 5? Is there any significance in going to a top 5 versus a top 10 or 20 for most private sector jobs? |
Anonymous
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I don't think there's a difference between top 5 and top 10 or 15. Probably top 3 will be H/Y/S but after that it gets fuzzier.
Also the truth is that new lawyers from some top schools will be less prepared to practice law than new lawyers from certain less prestigious schools, so if the firm doesn't want to spend a lot of time training and isn't using where you went as a credential, they might even prefer it if you didn't go the top 3. |
Anonymous
| Is it Yale, Stanford, Harvard, NYU, and Columbia? |
Anonymous
Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago. |
Anonymous
This is correct. And there's a big fall off in perception after the top 8-9 (the schools listed above plus NYU, UVA and Penn...and maybe Berkley, esp in the Cal market). |
Anonymous
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The Top 6 are
Top 3 = YHS = Yale, Harvard, Stanford Next 3 = CCN = Columbia, Chicago, NYU Then it gets fuzzier. Next 3 (debatable) are sometimes referred to as MVP = Michigan, Virginia, Penn |
Anonymous
That really only potentially applies to Yale, which is very heavy on the more esoteric and less practical aspects of legal education, so much so that some law firms don't want Yale graduates. Beyond that, an employer will take a Harvard or Stanford graduate over a graduate from GW or American, even if the latter has taken more clinical courses. |
Anonymous
| DH's Big Law firm will only hire from a top 8 law school. |
Anonymous
Why top 8, do you know? The number 8 seems so random. |
Anonymous
Do you even realize how pathetic you sound? Let me guess - you don't work. |
Anonymous
Uh oh. There are 9 listed above. Who gets ditched from the 9 above? |
Anonymous
Michigan. Her DH's Big Law firm only wants to hire from one school in the Midwest and even then they have trouble getting lawyers to go to on-campus recruiting in Chicago. |
Anonymous
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Since when is top 5 parasite trainers good ?
That's like saying " which schools best guarantee a eternity in hell?" |
Anonymous
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YLS people don't even want to practice law - they either want to becoming professors or do policy work.
So I don't think YLS really is a 'law school'. |
Anonymous
| You all are really idiots. |