Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:T14 is all that matters
This just isn’t true. There aren’t enough grads in just the T14 to fill up the first year seats in Biglaw. The firms have to dig deeper. If you graduate from a top 25 you’re in good shape.
For example, the Notre Dame graduating class of 2023 sent well over half of the class to law firms with over 500 lawyers or federal judicial clerkships.
encouraging cause my ivy league kids with high gpas are having a hard time getting super high on the LSAT but probably have enough for a Top 25 perhaps like a Wash U. Funny this is like undergrad where the targets were Wash U, Tufts, Emory, BU, and Wake lol if you couldn't do Ivy or Top 15. Seems the same for Law all over again (with the fact there is no law school for Tufts).
I went to American and made it to Big Law but then went in house for lifestyle so still possible. I had to go to govt first.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:T14 is all that matters
This just isn’t true. There aren’t enough grads in just the T14 to fill up the first year seats in Biglaw. The firms have to dig deeper. If you graduate from a top 25 you’re in good shape.
For example, the Notre Dame graduating class of 2023 sent well over half of the class to law firms with over 500 lawyers or federal judicial clerkships.
encouraging cause my ivy league kids with high gpas are having a hard time getting super high on the LSAT but probably have enough for a Top 25 perhaps like a Wash U. Funny this is like undergrad where the targets were Wash U, Tufts, Emory, BU, and Wake lol if you couldn't do Ivy or Top 15. Seems the same for Law all over again (with the fact there is no law school for Tufts).
I went to American and made it to Big Law but then went in house for lifestyle so still possible. I had to go to govt first.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:T14 is all that matters
This just isn’t true. There aren’t enough grads in just the T14 to fill up the first year seats in Biglaw. The firms have to dig deeper. If you graduate from a top 25 you’re in good shape.
For example, the Notre Dame graduating class of 2023 sent well over half of the class to law firms with over 500 lawyers or federal judicial clerkships.
Anonymous wrote:T14 is all that matters
Anonymous wrote:T14 is all that matters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Duke was never a bad school, but it has risen a lot since my day. That said, as a practicing attorney in coastal big law for the past couple decades, I don't really give a crap about these rankings, at least in their specificity. And the T14 categorization has never been as important as folks seem to think it is. Some of the best associate hires at my firm were kids who chose non-T14 schools to save money and kicked ass in those schools (grades, law review, etc.). [/
Duke has risen mostly because almost all the top law schools refuse to submit information to USNWR.
Duke and UVA are both a few places too high but doesn’t really matter because they are both top 10 regardless.
Anonymous wrote:Duke was never a bad school, but it has risen a lot since my day. That said, as a practicing attorney in coastal big law for the past couple decades, I don't really give a crap about these rankings, at least in their specificity. And the T14 categorization has never been as important as folks seem to think it is. Some of the best associate hires at my firm were kids who chose non-T14 schools to save money and kicked ass in those schools (grades, law review, etc.). [/
Duke has risen mostly because almost all the top law schools refuse to submit information to USNWR.
Anonymous wrote:1) Stanford
1) Yale University
3) University of Chicago
4) Duke University
4) Harvard University
4) University of Pennsylvania
4) University of Virginia
8) Columbia University
9) Northwestern University
9) NYU
9) University of Michigan
12) UC-Berkeley
13) UCLA
14) Cornell University
14) Georgetown University
Just clarified the listing to show that T-14 schools are listed numerically and alphabetically.