<p>Back in the pre-Cambrian era when I attended law school very few students went to a school outside their geographic area, with the major exception being folks who went to DC to work and go to law school there or those who went to Harvard or Yale law schools. Few students thought about whether the elite law schools were 10 or 14 or 16 in number. At that time NYU law school was already recognized as second only to Columbia in the NY metropolitan area. However, many students who planned to practice locally went to a less prestigious/less expensive law school and did nicely after graduation.</p>