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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably an unpopular opinion but.....personally, I think if you can get into a top law school, maybe you should go to a law school ranked a little further down **if** you can get a free ride.

You should be able to be at the top of the class at a less competitive school, and if you don't have any loans upon graduation, you have way more options IMO.  Especially if you don't have any outside financial assistance from family, etc.[/quote]

+1 for everyone except those with extremely specific career goals that require graduating from a top school (circuit court clerkship, law professor, practice at top NYC firms).

I know grads from lower ranked schools who have worked at a high level in the DOJ, landed great federal clerkships, gotten jobs at terrific AmLaw 200 firms, worked in house at major Silicon Valley companies, etc. And I also know many, many grads of top schools who worked a few years at a firm, got laid off, hated their next firm, burned out on law.

Graduating law school without loans is a major gift. Little about your law career is guaranteed.[/quote]

I graduated debt free from a school consistently ranked at the lower end of the T25.  I landed a prestigious federal appellate clerkship and got job offers from literally every firm in Biglaw that I applied to.  I did very well in law school though.      [/quote]

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