<p>I'm reading that if you don't graduate t15 your probably not going to do well career wise.</p>
<p>University of Connecticut law school is ranked 52 I believe, and I have yet to read anything bad about it?</p>
<p>So is Uconn a safe school or should I shoot for Yale?</p>
<p>Is UConn law a safe school for what purpose? </p>
<p>Top graduates of UConn Law seem to do well at law firms in CT (of which there are a handful of medium-sized firms and a handful of branch offices of larger firms). The only caveat is that you have to be at the top of your class and you have to be among the fortunate students to get an offer at the firms in CT that hire at on campus recruiting.</p>
<p>As with any law school, I would highly recommend checking out the law school website to see what employers recruit actively recruit there, how many graduates were actually hired (you may have to call the career office for this information), the average starting salary and the geographies of employed graduates and the percentage of graduates employed within 6 months after graduation.</p>
<p>UConn is a fine law school. If you go there and rank very high in your class, you should not have a problem being successful in the practice of law.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the info, I looked up the stats and they almost seem to good to be true…</p>
<p>U.S. News 2008 ranking: 47th
Application deadline: 3/1
Application fee: $30
Entering class size: 230 (full-time and part-time combined) (2007)
LSAT score at 25th and 75th percentiles: 160, 164 (full-time) (2007)
Undergraduate GPA at 25th and 75th percentiles: 3.24, 3.64 (full-time) (2007)
Yearly tuition: Resident: $18,230, Non-Resident: $37,670 (2007-2008)
Average private sector first-year salary: $70,000 (Class of 2005)</p>
<p>In all, about 95% of UConn Law grads are typically employed within 9 months of graduation, nearly 60% of whom decide to begin their practice of the law in the private sector</p>
<p>I would emphasize with the UConn stats that you should find out what the private sector versus public sector salaries are for graduates. You should ask tough questions concerning how many students wanted private sector jobs (typically higher paying) but had to take public sector jobs because they could not obtain the jobs of their choice. </p>
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<p>First, it is never a safe assumption that any given student will be highly ranked in his or her law school class. Law school is highly competitive, students are motivated and most understand completely how important grades are. You won’t find too many slackers or too many students who don’t try their very hardest at law school. Second, while, of course, many successful attorneys did not go to T14 law schools, if you want to consider job opportunities that will be available upon graduation from a given law school, than you must consider how the law school you attend affects often narrowing) those opportunities. If one has his or her heart set on practicing law in a big city like Chicago, LA or Miami, opportunities would likely be quite limited coming from UConn Law. If one wishes to practice law in a city like NYC, there may be some opportunities available, and a handful of students might find jobs in BIGLAW. Most likely, most opportunities for UConn Law grads will be in CT, RI and portions of Massachusetts.</p>
<p>First, it’s a good idea to look at the most recent school data, which you can find here:</p>
<p><a href=“Search for Law Schools – LSAC Official Guide | The Law School Admission Council”>Search for Law Schools – LSAC Official Guide | The Law School Admission Council;
<p>and the most recent salary/employment info from the school, which is here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.law.uconn.edu/system/files/private/Class+of+2008+Graduate+Report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.law.uconn.edu/system/files/private/Class+of+2008+Graduate+Report.pdf</a></p>
<p>You should always take a very close look at salary data, both to see what it can tell you and what its limitations may be. A couple things that I can see are</p>
<p>1) the geographic distribution; as sally guessed, nearly all grads end up in New England or New York, with roughly 2/3rds in Connecticut. If you aren’t willing to work in CT, you probably shouldn’t consider UConn. </p>
<p>2) The majority of grads going to law firms are not going to biglaw firms.</p>
<p>3) The salary data is lacking. The first thing you should check any time you see data like this is the percentage of grads who actually reported salary information. They claim a 71% response rate, which is itself concerning, since happy, successful grads are more likely to report information. </p>
<p>If you look at the breakdown, you can see that, while 100% of grads working at firms with over 500 attorneys reported data, only 29% at firms with 10 or fewer did. I’m also not sure how they came up with the 71% reporting figure. They seem to say they got 108 responses from 153 people surveyed, but I can’t see why they’d only survey 153. There were 185 grads, 179 of whom reported their employment status, with 92.2% of them employed, which should be 165 people to get salary data from. In any event, the important thing to keep in mind is that, if they only had 108 responses, you’re really only seeing data for about 58% of the class. The real numbers are almost certainly much less encouraging.</p>
<p>I agree that you should ask tough questions of the admissions staff. Specifically, I would ask about on-campus interviewing; how it works, how many employers show up, how many students get jobs through OCI and what class-rank cutoffs different employers have (this may be published somewhere; e.g., a firm may say they’ll only interview people in the top 10% and on law review. Getting a list of the cutoffs would be ideal).</p>