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I went to Rutgers and worked at a top NYC Biglaw firm. I graduated in the top ten students in my class and had offers from a ton of BigLaw firms. The Weil partner at my on campus interview just spent the 20 minutes trying to convince me to work for his firm. Obv things have changed, since I graduated in 2006, but if you did well in school you should do fine. Not trying to say it's easy or brag about it, but just want to emphasize tat it is very possible.
Ummmm. Congrats and all, but I'm not sure top ten students (which seems like its top 7-8% or so from quick googling of rutger class size) qualifies as "doing well" and making it "very possible."
Now take into account the downturn in the economy and how many Rutgers students w/o "diversity" or connections are getting biglaw jobs this year? 10? 5? 3?
My friend at a top 15-20 school had 13 people from his school at his firm this past summer. They cut their summer class in half for 2009. So you'd expect it to go down to 6/7, right? Try 0. From 13 to 0 in a single year. Not surprisingly, Yale, Harvard, etc. are still well represented at near traditional levels.
The cuts are disproportionately killing people from mid-level schools.