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Nope, placement from these two schools are actually eerily identical. Columbia only has a slight advantage in academia and in v10 firms, but 95% of students at either school have no interest these.</p>
<p>Your reply is a complete nonsequitor. If there is no point in discussing whether NYU or Columbia has the better law school, why are you insisting that Columbia is better? What does the income of a personal injury lawyer vs. a Biglaw associate (who, even if he does not make partner in Biglaw will be very well paid as a Midlaw, GC, orGvt. attorney) have to do with the comparative difference between the two schools (the topic of the post)? And no, we are not all in agreement that Columbia is the better school. After all, they took you…</p>
<p>Well, among my kid’s friends–and said kid is a recent LS grad–NYU is viewed as a better school than Columbia. Kid’s friends tend to be very lilberal, and my understanding–I’ve NO personal knowledge–is that NYU is better for clinical courses or at least clinical courses likely to lead to jobs working for public interest organizations. Since more NYU grads go into public interest immediately, that may well be true. </p>
<p>I live in NYC, so my view is local, but most people I know here view the law schools as pretty equal. </p>
<p>And, for what it’s worth, ColumbiaPostBac, I don’t see how taking courses at Columbia School of Continuing Education qualifies you to opine in the difference in the quality of NYU’s and Columbia’s LAW schools.</p>
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For someone who’s attending Columbia for non-competitive grad school, he takes a surprising amount of pride in the name of the school, and is quickly willing to sell out his alma mater.</p>
<p>From the perspective of a headhunter, there is not much difference between NYU and Columbia in terms of clout. Pick the one you like the best, do well and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I really enjoy reading ColumbiaPostBac’s posts.</p>
<p>dude…Columbia…come on. More worth the fees too.</p>
<p>for alternative options I recommend Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern. Yep.</p>
<p>*Northwestern if you plan on doing the accelerated JD. Basically these are solid schools with top notch faculty, resources and gleaming prestige. But if you want more info on the hows etc of rankings I recommend you Brian Leiter’s law school rankings. It doesn’t get anymore comprehensive that that. Google the name up.</p>
<p>hey endr678, that’s super nice that you were admitted to both schools. i am a senior in high school who is also aiming for the two schools. can i humbly seek your guidance? how did you do it? can you give me some tips? and could you also give background of your academic stand point please? like… gpa, sat scores and such.</p>