<p>:) That would look extremely legit on paper if it were the case. Perhaps not better than Harvard or Yale, but I take it like this:</p>
<p>JD, Princeton University
JD, Columbia University
JD, Stanford University</p>
<p>The Princeton version is undoubtedly nice, seems to be on a "tie" with Stanford. And MD at Princeton would be great too!</p>
<p>Grr! We need to run to the admissions office at New Jersey and say how dare you do such a disservice to this awesome school by preventing it from offering professional programs! Hmph! Let's picket it out, maybe they'll succumb and create some new programs :)</p>
<p>If UCI just opened a law school, why can't Princeton?</p>
<p>California didn’t need another LS either. UCI will undoubtedly do a wonderful job, but the State has plenty of TIII’s that have extremely low bar pass rates. Those schools should be de-certified.</p>
<p>Yes, every University should open up a law school, like we don’t have enough lawyers in this country already! (Tell that the the thousands of lawyers and law school graduates nationwide who are now out of work).</p>
<p>Of course, law schools are cheap to establish – no classrooms needed, no library, no library books (which need to be updated almost daily), no professors, no staff, no land for the school, etc. etc. However, once the capital expense is invested, with the high student to faculty ratio the school is a profit center from what I have heard.</p>
<p>I went to a university which doesn’t have a law school. During a reunion weekend, an older alum asked the president during a Q&A session why the university didn’t establish one–he thought it should. Pres answered because the last thing the US needs is another law school. Prez got a standing ovation.</p>
<p>Future.NYU.Student: Ah, grasshopper, passing a state bar exam has nothing to do with how good a law school is or not. Few law schools teach what is necessary to pass a bar exam. Law schools teach (in theory) how to think like a lawyer (see Professor Kingsley in “The Paper Chase”). Most of what one needs to learn to pass a bar exam is learned in a bar review course that one takes after graduating from law school. Law schools try to teach students why courts rule the way they rule, not the rule of law. Bar review courses (which are not cheap) teach you what the rules of law are, such as rather petty things like the statute of limitations for sodomy with a parrot. So if you are thinking that NYU law school, your apparent future law school, will teach you what you need to pass a bar exam, surprise! Thus, a law school’s bar exam pass rate is not a fair measure of the law school’s quality.</p>
<p>I’m not thinking about NYU Law but I’m rather flattered that you think I can get into NYU Law. My username was from my high school days, thus should be futurenyualumnus. But anyways, law schools should be teaching you how to BE a lawyer, not just how to think like one. </p>
<p>My opinion on Cooley stands. Their certification SHOULD be yanked.</p>