<p>Hello, everyone. Thank you for reading my post.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if going to a top 14 law school really gives you advantages in the long run? In terms of job opportunities, salary, etc.?</p>
<p>Do people who go to a top 14 law school (say, Chicago/Penn/Duke) really have a "leg up" after graduation?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help. :)</p>
<p>Yes....if you define exit opportunities and job after graduation with $$ (which most people do) then most certainly so. Firms (the one that pay the big $$) will dip much lower into NYU's class then, say, Notre Dame. While it may be possible to get that 160k job out of Notre Dame, you're gonna have to finish top 10% for it to be almost guaranteed. Whereas if you go to NYU, you're almost guaranteed a job like that if you finish in the top 75%. Now, is there a difference between Georgetown (14) and texas/la/sc/vandy (15-20 range)? A little, but not as much. Georgetown is seen as a "national" school, whereas many of the schools after Georgetown at 14 are seen as more regional schools.</p>
<p>yes. T14 schools have more recruiters from more firms, place more students in clerkships and public interest fellowships, and have alums in a larger number of prestigious positions. while it's possible for grads of any law school to get jobs, most employers will go "deeper" into the pool of T14 students (ie, they might interview only the top 10% of students at a lower-ranked school, and all students at a T14). T14s also tend to have better public interest loan repayment programs than lower-ranked schools.</p>
<p>the difference between T14 and a top 25 school or something is pretty minor, but if you can get into a T14 I'd think twice about going to a much lower-ranked school, unless:</p>
<p>a) the lower-ranked school is in a city or town that you're positive you'd like to stay in (ie, if you know you want to work in Montana, the university there would be a better choice than almost anywhere else)</p>
<p>b) you're very sure you don't want a firm job, a clerkship, or a job as a professor or judge, AND the T14 to which you've been admitted doesn't have a good loan repayment program, AND the lower-ranked school has given you a huge scholarship.</p>
<p>Bumping the topic... :)</p>
<p>Judging by the average salary/job placement/bar pass rate of T14 schools, I'd argue that going to a T14 does give one significant advantages. I do, however, think the T14 can be too limited a scope as there are schools outside of it (UT, USC, Vanderbilt, GWU, etc.) that place well and are well regarded. At the same time, where you received your JD seems to be far more important than where you received your BA in the profession of law so there would have to be some pretty big incentives to make me pick a non T14 over a T14.</p>
<p>Depends on where you want to work. F,BC,BU are well respected in NY, DC
etc. as Hastings, Davis, and maybe Loyola are respected in CA.</p>
<p>My son who attends one of those and he is in Top 50, got an offer from
Top 50 BIGLAW with 160K + Bonus.</p>
<p>I mean his grades are in the top half.</p>
<p>When did the term T14 come out of? I hear it all the time. Why is it T14 and not like T10 or T15. Fourteen is kind of random except that its double 7. Or do people just say T14 over T10,T15,T20 cause of Georgetown?</p>
<p>cuz the top 14 schools have reamined in the top 14 for many years, while all the schools below that keep changing (however, the rankings within the T14 havee changed every year)</p>
<p>The easiest way to remember them are: HYS, CCN, MVP, Duke, Cal, Cornell, Gtown. Barring a little fluxuation with UVA this year there has been very little change in the top 10 for years (11 -14 does change a little year over year, but is is unlikely they they drop out of the T-14)</p>
<p>The current T-14 (according to U.S. News) are: </p>
<p>1Yale University (CT)</p>
<p>2Harvard University (MA)</p>
<p>2Stanford University (CA)</p>
<p>4New York University </p>
<p>5Columbia University (NY)</p>
<p>6University of Chicago </p>
<p>6University of Pennsylvania </p>
<p>8University of California–Berkeley </p>
<p>8University of Michigan–Ann Arbor </p>
<p>10Duke University (NC)</p>
<p>10University of Virginia </p>
<p>12Northwestern University (IL)</p>
<p>13Cornell University (NY)</p>
<p>14Georgetown University (DC)</p>
<p>15University of California–Los Angeles</p>