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Not entirely sure where I would like to end up, generally I would like to practice in a major market/big city (I am not excited about the prospect of living in saint louis, but would be happy to end up in chicago from WUSTL). I have biglaw or boutique/mid sized patent firm goals, but I do plan to a...

Not entirely sure where I would like to end up, generally I would like to practice in a major market/big city (I am not excited about the prospect of living in saint louis, but would be happy to end up in chicago from WUSTL). I have biglaw or boutique/mid sized patent firm goals, but I do plan to a...

First, figure out your cost of attendance at each school using this tool: https://www.lawschool.life/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=987 Next, look at the employment numbers out of these schools. Are you looking to make biglaw? Keep in mind that of the schools you've listed, only two (Vanderbilt and Geor...

You're not a creature of New York City, so dump Columbia from this list - the Hamilton is going to give you a bigger debt load than the Ruby for no better an education and certainly no better opportunities. Now dump HLS. No matter what that prestige looks like, zero (or close to it) debt will mean m...

Fit is important in that law school will be rough, and if your environment is stressing you out, your grades will likely suffer. NYU is hands down the best option for your goals, but if you would be miserable just living in NY, don't go there. I guess I'm wondering - Let's say I have a preference f...

Fit is important in that law school will be rough, and if your environment is stressing you out, your grades will likely suffer. NYU is hands down the best option for your goals, but if you would be miserable just living in NY, don't go there.

I guess I'll join in on this. OP, there are a lot of things to consider here, but I'll start by saying that the link UVA gave you to Law School Transparency it the beginning of your access to the truly important information for making this decision. The USNWR rankings are, to a very large degree, bu...

I should have read this before responding to 1515, but I agree with you entirely. Is how much more NYU is worth for its increased PI opportunities entirely subjective or is there a consensus that one of my other options would make more sense after a certain threshold? I don't plan on getting marrie...

NYU on up will be able to place you geographically where you want, and I believe that maybe Michigan and UVA can as well (other people would know better). I think I would respond to why not Duke and Northwestern with a broader point: the rankings already incorporate a lot of information. Yes, they ...

Yeah, I would have expected at least one other solid option with those numbers. Still, UVA is awesome, and there's still a chance one of the other three comes through with an offer.

On the other hand, the odds of alleviating the work visa requirement through marriage within three years might be considerably easier in LA than Ithaca....

No, they are both full tuition with no stipends and no aid drop offs . I'm actually unfamiliar with that site. I just calculated a rough estimate of 3k/mo rent in NYC and 1k/mo rent for Charlottesville and multiplied by 36 mo for the 3 years. I can't just account for the school year since my partne...

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Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:19 pm

they got $25k at UVA?

Damned if the lack of capitalization made that hard to catch. My bad.

Why is everyone bringing UVA into this thread? I don't see OP talking about UVA as an option.

Does your UVA full ride include a stipend? I'm having trouble figuring out how you're calculating that much of a difference in COA between the two full rides. https://www.lstreports.com/schools/uva/costs/ shows $78,455 for debt-financed CoL at UVA, while https://www.lstreports.com/schools/nyu/costs/...

Tsuga- thank you! I'm actually leaning NYU with UVA as a close 2nd. I'll be visiting both soon. Hoping that clears it up. Would UCLA be more defensible if I said I wanted to end up in Southern California? It's not a frontrunner, just curious. stranger- Do you mind sharing what factors make you team...

Wow, congrats! I think NYU and UVA are your best options. NYU is not as much of a DC/CA feeder as Mich/Duke/UVA, but the biggest prestige-PI feeder among your options and obviously a huge NY-feeder. UVA is your biggest DC feeder and biggest fed-gov feeder. Assuming you like the two schools equally,...

Duke represents the balance of community styles between the big city in Philly and a lovely semi-remote college town in Charlottesville. Durham is fairly pedestrian and bike friendly, but doesn't quite have big city public transit (you can get around on it, but don't plan to do so quickly, especiall...

From business insider, those graduating with the highest paying job, PENN #2, behind Columbia. Duke #6, UVA #10. (In 2016, Penn was #1.) LST can fill you in on other categories. Not sure if UVA continues its practice of SFJ, which dramatically inflates their employment stats. If so, it’s impossible...

In most strategic areas, Penn reigns over Duke and Vir. It gets tighter for Penn when they are compared to Columbia, Chicago and NYU. You're gonna need to back that up. The only area Penn routinely leads UVA and Duke in is USNWR, which falls somewhere between an interesting diversion and pure bunk....

The 8-ball speaks. Looks like I was 27 places off in total. W&L really tanked me 😦 Indeed, W&L tanked anyone who selected it. I've scored the entries, though I need to double-check one to see if I missed an error in the submission when I transcribed it to my score sheet. If these standings hold, we...

Official rankings, via Spivey ( https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2020-usnwr-rankings-2019-release/ ) : 1 Yale University 2 Stanford University 3 Harvard University 4 University of Chicago 5 Columbia University 6 New York University 7 University of Pennsylvania 8 University of Virginia 9 University...

Fair enough. They give us the two weeks after finals for it.

Why are about half of the entries moving Michigan down below UVA and Berkeley??!? Should I no longer be gunning for that Darrow? :? Michigan is exactly what it was before we started prognosticating, and will continue to be so regardless of what USNWR says about it. The school maintains an inflated ...

Glad to see your outcomes improved this much. Going to Wash U is basically saying, "fuck it, I'm gonna be a PD, might as well save the dough." But UVA gives you a reasonable shot at reaching higher. You'll be close enough to day trip Equal Justice Works. You'll have an LRAP to fall back on to help w...