<p>Are you better off going to Columbia law school rather than Harvard, Stanford or Yale, provided that you want to work in NYC after graduation?</p>
<p>Stanford, possibly.</p>
<p>Harvard or Yale? </p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Go to Yale.</p>
<p>If you can’t get into Yale, go to Harvard.</p>
<p>Stanford is not either Harvard or Yale, so I’m not sure how it became HYS in the first place.</p>
<p>Y > h > s > c</p>
<p>If you are a straight-faced applicant for all four schools, then apply to all four. Once you’ve gotten acceptance letters, and you are comparing prices (e.g. Hamilton scholarship or full-price at Columbia), then we can talk. Which is to say, for almost every person who sits for the LSAT, the question is really a moot point.</p>
<p>A lot of it depends on your own personal connections to NYC and whom you know in the NYC legal field. It may even depend on whether you are working for a firm based out of NYC, or a California firm with a satellite office.</p>
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<p>Either you are not up to date, or you haven’t been west of the Mississippi.</p>
<p>I do admit only a handful of Stanford grads want to be in NYC.</p>
<p>You would do very well to attend any of those four law schools. As aries points out, wait until you get accepted to all four before worrying about which one is best.</p>
<p>I agree, columbia would be better than stan ford, but not by much…</p>
<p>Columbia is much, much, much better if you want to work in New York City.
All top law firms recruit on campus at Columbia. Every single firm.</p>
<p>Only a very few recruit directly with Stanford and only when there is a direct connection or the law firm is an office of a firm based on the West Coast.</p>
<p>Yale has the best law school in the world</p>
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<p>From where are you getting this information? Stanford’s [url=<a href=“6 Keys to a Stellar Law School Resume - Professional Resume Writers”>6 Keys to a Stellar Law School Resume - Professional Resume Writers]employment[/url</a>] numbers show bias for the west coast, certainly, but there’s no reason not to think that’s due to self-selection. The students that get into Stanford could easily have gone to an east-coast school.</p>
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This is what I’ve done for a living for almost 30 years. I think you misunderstood what I posted. Law firms in NYC hold events every year called on campus recruiting (which is usually in a hotel, but I digress) where attorneys interview a slate of candidates from the school and then invite the promising ones to interview at the firm. Every large firm in NYC and most medium/smaller firms interview at Columbia. It’s simply a fact. Some law firms in NYC send folks to do OCI at Stanford, but it is far from universal. Geography, you know? Not a reflection on quality of applicants or the law school itself, simply a statement of the fact that if you want to work in NYC, Columbia has a very specific and well traveled recruiting path.</p>
<p>Zoosermom’s main point is that, all other things being equal or almost equal, it’s easier to get a job in the geographical area in which you want to work. The logistics and the numbers often just work better. </p>
<p>That said, unless someone is holding an acceptance to Columbia in one hand and an acceptance to Stanford in the other, the discussion is entirely moot.</p>
<p>My main point is logistics. There is a logistical path set up between the law firms in NYC and Columbia. That is not usually the case with regard to Stanford. Of course Stanford is a great school. It’s just that most law firms fill the bulk of their first year classes by way of OCI. It’s not necessarily that they don’t see Stanford grads as worthy, of course they are, it’s just that in law what has always been done is what is still done and what has always been done is OCI at Columbia, NYU, Penn, Harvard, Yale, Georgetown and sometimes Fordham, Michigan and Virginia. Some firms recruit heavily from Virginia, but most do not. It’s just a matter of what connections a particular firm has at a particular school beyond the top bunch where everyone does OCI.</p>