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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Georgetown grad here.  Law school is extremely expensive and unless you come from a lot of money it takes a lot of law school to be "worth it"

Georgetown is pretty much the reason why people say T-14 instead of T-10 or T-20 or even T-15 when it comes to law schools.  I mean 14?  That's a weird number right?  It's because Georgetown is usually ranked about 14.  It is the largest law school in the country and it is usually the cutoff for on campus interviewing for top law firms.  You need to be in the top half of Georgetown to have selection of job offers.

I don't know if any of the other law schools are really worth the cost of attendance plus the opportunity cost of 3 years.  You have to graduate cum laude at GW to really have a lucrative career, maybe top 10-20% at the other schools.  Maybe even top 5%.

I know money isn't everything but once again, law school is expensive, both in terms of actual cost and opportunity cost.[/quote]

So what kind of jobs opportunities are there for kids who graduate from T15 and below law schools?  Just wondering since my child wants to go to law school[/quote]

It's not a strict cutoff and I am mostly just talking about your first job out of law school.
But make no mistake, your first job out of law schools sets the trajectory for your career.
You can change your trajectory but it's not easy to improve the trajectory

The bottom half of georgetown still get jobs but they don't get multiple offers from law firms, they might get one or two.  Maybe from a smaller firm that pays almost biglaw salaries.

Cum laude at the next tier of law schools will still have some success straight out of law school and magna cum laude at the next tier will have success ands summa cum laude at pretty much any law school will get people to at least look at them but you are really putting yourself behind the 8 ball if you go to a school that isn't popular with law firms or clerkships[/quote]

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