<p>I was just accepted to Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, UPenn, UChicago law schools. I am currently a senior at Amherst College. I have plans to do a joint degree program JD/MBA. I want to go into investment banking maybe. I am having a hard time choosing. My pre-law advisier said I can't go wrong if I attend either of them. I have visited all of them and was impressed with all of them especially by Penn, Harvard, & Stanford. I need some help. Please any advice will be helpful. BTW, I would have posted in the "Law School Forum" but it is not as active.</p>
<p>Runner,</p>
<p>there seems to be a disconnect in your postings because you also stated the following:</p>
<p>SCEA or EA @ HYSUchicagoG-town </p>
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<p>I currently a junior in HS. I have decided to apply early to one of these schools. My stats are phemonial and i have an amazing hook. My SATs were 1510 and I'm deciding on my SAT IIs. I want to major in Government/Political Science. I have aspiartions to go to a law school esp. Yale/Columbia. Which one can apply to and receive a phenomonial education and I know mes profs. Name recognition is less important but has some weight in my decision. BTW, I cant stand intro classes larger than 55+. I am also considering Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore.</p>
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<p>Hey, i am HS junior and I plan on applying EA to Yale in the fall. I have a passion for Politics, World Affairs, and the Law. I alot of people keep advising me to expression that in my apps. Which ones would you list? This is how I plan on my EC section of my yale app looking like. Does the list seem to long I love all of my ECs but I dont want to look like a "quanity over quality" applicant. Plz any suggestions will do? Does this show passion?</p>
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Politics Club-Founder/President
Law Club- Founder/President
World Affairs Club- Diplomat/Ambassador
School Newspaper- Political Columnist
Black Student Union- President
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<p>Telling the truth is a good thing, so I would suggest that you get into the habit of doing so. Lie on your college applications, then you won't have to worry about , Columbia, Harvard, UPenn, UChicago law schools, because you won't even get into ollege.</p>
<p>At this moment, why don;t you focus on getting into college.</p>
<p>Assuming the OP actually wants info about these grad schools, I would go with Harvard and Stanford. Penn may have the better business school, but the biz schools at H and S are also extremely strong, and their law schools have even stronger reputations. Overall, the Harvard and Stanford names will probably pack more punch.</p>
<p>Chicago, on the other hand, is also THE place for law and economics.</p>
<p>I don't know if JD/MBA programs differ from getting each degree separately...but if they don't the best places would be Chicago, Stanford and Harvard. But I wouldn't go with Stanford...why? You said you want to go into finance. Go to Stanford, and there's a good chance you'll end up working on the West Coast. Have fun waking up at 3AM.</p>
<p>"I don't know if JD/MBA programs differ from getting each degree separately...but if they don't the best places would be Chicago, Stanford and Harvard."</p>
<p>Why exactly would Chicago be better than Penn? Penn's B school is supposedly better, with their law school somewhat, but not that far, behind Chicago's. </p>
<p>"But I wouldn't go with Stanford...why? You said you want to go into finance. Go to Stanford, and there's a good chance you'll end up working on the West Coast. Have fun waking up at 3AM."</p>
<p>Obviously, if the OP goes to Stanford, he'll be able to work pretty much wherever he wants. To the extent Stanford grads elect to stay on the West Coast, I'd have to think it's mainly a function of self-selection.</p>
<p>Chicago is ranked #2 for finance (what prospective i-bankers tend to go into), right behind Wharton--and some places have Chicago tops for finance.</p>
<p>That along with Chicago's clear advantage over UPenn's law school give Chicago a slight edge. Of course, Stanford is better than both of them.</p>
<p>As for where he'd work, you can look at it like this--yes, he could easily get an East Coast job coming from Stanford. But considering Stanford's proximity to SF (the West Coast banking center), most if not all the recruiters will be WC. Therefore, he can put in more effort to get an East Coast job, or he could just let the West Coast job come to him. For some reason, I don't see people going from Stanford all the way back to the East Coast to start looking for jobs.</p>
<p>But the truth is that all of those schools are the best of the best and will definitely get you jobs. It will pretty much come down to personal preference.</p>
<p>"Chicago is ranked #2 for finance (what prospective i-bankers tend to go into), right behind Wharton--and some places have Chicago tops for finance."</p>
<p>Fair enough!</p>
<p>"That along with Chicago's clear advantage over UPenn's law school give Chicago a slight edge."</p>
<p>Okay. Some people would argue, based on the rankings, that Chicago Law is not that far ahead of Penn. However, I would agree that in most important areas (Reputation, Faculty, and Placement), Chicago is significantly better. </p>
<p>"As for where he'd work, you can look at it like this--yes, he could easily get an East Coast job coming from Stanford. But considering Stanford's proximity to SF (the West Coast banking center), most if not all the recruiters will be WC. Therefore, he can put in more effort to get an East Coast job, or he could just let the West Coast job come to him."</p>
<p>I don't have any hard data on this, but I think you're probably mistaken about the regional nature of OCI at top business schools. In law school, OCI at the tip-top programs is very national in nature, drawing in a broad and diverse number of recruiters from all over the country. I think the same is probably true for the top B-schools. I imagine the top east-coast recruiters all show up at Stanford, as they'll want the best and brightest there over an average student from Harvard, Wharton, etc. </p>
<p>Moreover, if your regional recruitment theory were true, this would also favor Penn over Chicago, since Penn is right on the East Coast, and Chicago is in the Midwest.</p>
<p>True, but maybe they figure it's less of a stretch to get someone to go from Chicago to NY than from Palo Alto to NY. Maybe just on the basis of filling quotas at their location. Either way, I guess that's not really the point though--I was only bringing to light that working in finance on the West Coast entails waking up VERY early.</p>
<p>"True, but maybe they figure it's less of a stretch to get someone to go from Chicago to NY than from Palo Alto to NY. Maybe just on the basis of filling quotas at their location."</p>
<p>Maybe, maybe not. It would certainly be worth it for someone to research beforehand. But I'd be hard pressed to choose Chicago over Stanford, for reasons of weather if nothing else. </p>
<p>"Either way, I guess that's not really the point though--I was only bringing to light that working in finance on the West Coast entails waking up VERY early."</p>
<p>That's true. And it might be hard to leave the West Coast after living there for a few years.</p>
<p>I suggest that y'all, regardless of gender, read Linda Hirshman's "A Woman's Guide to Law School." She interviewed four firms of different size and geographical location. One of them, a medium Northeast firm, outright said that they don't interview Stanford grads because, in reality, most of them aren't going to want to be far from the surf. (pg. 259.)</p>
<p>Anyway - if you are thinking of going into a certain city, here is the game plan to ensure that the firms you are contemplating interview at your school:
*Go to nalp.org or other directories of legal employers.
*Do a search by city, firm size, and practice areas.
*Click through the lists of firms and look at the schools at which they interview. Are the schools you are thinking of on there? </p>
<p>My last bit of advice is somewhat counter-intuitive, but bear with me. It is sometimes good to go to a school near other really strong schools, at least from a recruiting perspective. A Boston employer can fly out to Chicago and get UChicago, Northwestern, Loyola, etc student interviews in one swoop - it's a non-stop flight (possibly, but you don't have to take a puddle-jumper to a tiny airport), and they can get a lot of students interviewed at once. Contrast Vanderbilt or Wake Forest or those schools - it might not be a direct flight there, and there aren't other law schools around to make it worth the trip. My hypothetical Boston firm might decide that it's easier (less time-consuming and costly) to not recruit on those campuses, even though they are good schools. You can still get an interview, but you'll have to travel for it to a job fair or to the office. </p>
<p>Just my thought.</p>
<p>"I suggest that y'all, regardless of gender, read Linda Hirshman's "A Woman's Guide to Law School." She interviewed four firms of different size and geographical location. One of them, a medium Northeast firm, outright said that they don't interview Stanford grads because, in reality, most of them aren't going to want to be far from the surf. (pg. 259.)"</p>
<p>This is interesting, and partly supports what I was saying about self-selection.</p>
<p>However, it is also obviously a very limited sample (one medium-sized firm). The best (and easiest) way to determine who does OCI at Stanford is probably to simply check out their OCI list, if you can get your hands on it.</p>
<p>I prefer Stanford</p>