<p>I'm an economics/political science major at Arizona State University.</p>
<p>I've taken the LSAT and I'm considering going to New York Law School to study Financial Services law with a concentration on asset management or capital markets.</p>
<p>Although New York Law School is not a top tier law school, would the economics degree along side a law degree in financial law give me an edge into IB?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>BB is close to impossible (only people I know who made it to BB after law school were ones who went to HYP, Dartmouth, Stanford, Columbia, MIT, and Duke for undergrad and then YHS, CCN for law school), but for you IB is definitely possible.</p>
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Where did you get that information that NYU law isn’t a top tier law school? </p>
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when you said BB, did you mean bulge bracket? If that is so, then several Berkeley grads made it into BB too. And, so are several folks form Northwestern, Chicago, NYU and Michigan.</p>
<p>^^ New York Law School is not NYU Law School</p>
<p>oh, sorry then. i actually never knew such law school exists.</p>
<p>It is a tier three. NYU law school is near the top of the tier one schools. I definitely would not go to New York Law School, especially if your goal is to get into IBanking.</p>
<p>“when you said BB, did you mean bulge bracket? If that is so, then several Berkeley grads made it into BB too. And, so are several folks form Northwestern, Chicago, NYU and Michigan.”</p>
<p>Yes. I know there are. When I say that I never met any of them personally doesn’t mean that there are none. I’m sure there are a lot from those schools, from NYU (both undergrad and law) as well (though you probably won’t find many from New York Law School).</p>
<p>@IvyPear,so it is difficult to get into Goldman sachs via Harvard Law school?Do top investment banks recruit mostly from top undergrads and not top law,med or grad schools?</p>
<p>“@IvyPear,so it is difficult to get into Goldman sachs via Harvard Law school?Do top investment banks recruit mostly from top undergrads and not top law,med or grad schools?”</p>
<p>They recruit at top law schools. However, usually you would need previous experience to be hired as associate in M&A, S&T, etc. As you can see, very small percentages of students go into finance & consulting even at HYS, and I would say (based on what I’ve seen) that most of them worked in those fields prior to attending law school, some may have pursued JD/MBA.</p>
<p>Yale: [Yale</a> Law School | Employment Statistics](<a href=“http://www.law.yale.edu/studentlife/cdoprospectivestudentstats.htm]Yale”>http://www.law.yale.edu/studentlife/cdoprospectivestudentstats.htm)
Harvard: [About</a> Our Students](<a href=“http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/careers/ocs/prospective-students/employment-statistics/about-our-students.html]About”>http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/careers/ocs/prospective-students/employment-statistics/about-our-students.html)
Stanford: [Facts</a> & Statistics | Stanford Law School](<a href=“http://www.law.stanford.edu/experience/careers/ocs/prospective/statistics/]Facts”>Welcome to SLS - Stanford Law School)</p>
<p>2% is too low to use as a basis for a solid strategy</p>
<p>“2% is too low to use as a basis for a solid strategy”</p>
<p>Going to HYS law straight from undergrad and start at an BB as an associate after would allow the person to skip 2-3 years of working 80-100 hour weeks as analyst and become an associate 1-2 year younger than a person following the traditional path (undergrad -> analyst -> B-school -> associate). If this sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true (or is extremely close to being impossible).</p>