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[quote=Anonymous]The advice to go to law school where you want to practice definitely makes sense outside of the top law schools, but the top law schools still make a huge difference in employment, with some caveats.  One of the things to consider is the top law schools vary a lot not just in location but size -- Harvard is huge, Yale is small (most Yale grads practice and they do not have a difficult time finding jobs; while they send a higher % of grads into teaching, it is still a small percentage), Columbia big, Stanford medium to small.  Chicago is small and is on a quarter system, and remains kind of focused on law and economics though not as much as it once was.  NYU is the school that has made the most strides in the last decade and many consider it better than Columbia though older folks (50+) still think of Columbia as stronger.  After that it is harder to say -- VA has had a hard time with its placement lately and it is quite isolated, limiting opportunities to work during the school year outside of the clinics.  Penn does seem to be primarily a Philly school, and Philly is a large city with lots of good jobs, Michigan very good school that students like, big.  Cal is still seen as primarily a CA school and its tuition, even for in state, is private-like.  After that chase money or location, and I would put an edge on location.  I think it would be a mistake, for example, to choose GW over Hastings if you wanted to practice in CA (actually SF, if you want to practice in LA go to one of the many LA schools) even if you were offered a lot of money, and if you choose Wash U with a scholarship, you should like the Midwest, not a bad place to practice or live but maybe not what you had in mind.         [/quote]

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