I'd rather do well on 1 easy test than have to do well all throughout law school to get a good job.

can someone name a school where you have to be top 10% to get a job? i mean the absolute worst schools going off of rankings (which outside of big law in big cities are total lol) are like $70k average first year and that includes all the people who **** up and whatnot, so being average there is, well, $70k which isn't too shabby if that's all you want. no way in hell do i want this big law bs that people seem so interested in, but maybe because i'm in a 'dead zone' compared to the big coasts i can get away with a lot more?

http://www.law.capital.edu/

Also, the stats lie. No job? Not included. Don't respond? Not included. Non-law job, i.e. waiter? Not included. You get the idea.

i kind of got my ass kicked in probate jeopardy. Think I should be concerned that I wasn't able to regurgitate 50 pages of horrible statutes on command?

My best friend is a 3L in the top 20% at a top 50 school in a major city and he would be doing backflips right now to get a $70k job offer.

ok...maybe it's all relative. I mean, at the biggest firms in the area the summer clerks are like 1/3 top 25, 1/3 three other area schools 1/3 my school. not to mention i know plenty of people at my school getting the best possible offers at the firms they want, so I guess while it might be generally true, to say that going to a school outside of the top 25 is pointless seems a little harsh.

manupod, what the hell are you talking about? What's relative? Who cares about the makeup of big firm summer associates in your area? Who said that it's pointless to go to a school outside the top 25?

a-****in-men

heh, this is probably some jab at me or something, but whatever. I think everyone is this thread has said if you're not top 14 don't bother or you'll end up making 40k a year doing something ****ty if you're lucky enough to have a job. And I just struggle to believe that when everyone in their 2nd and 3rd year that I know is working where they want, getting the offers they want and not regretting their decision where they went to school. So maybe if you want to work in NYC/LA or something, THEN you need to go to one of the top 14 (or whatever) schools but for other markets that's not necessary. That's all I'm saying.

Probably? Given that my post started with "manupod", what did you think I was talking about?

Also I still have no idea who you're arguing with.

anyone take the LSAT yesterday? Thoughts?

Bump for law school exams. Isn't studying for them fun?

Since I'm doing a clinic I only have two exams. The only one I need to study more than a day for is Con Law II. I have 0 notes, have read 0 cases, and have missed the last 5 classes in a row. However, I have 2.5 weeks between classes ending and this exam, so plenty of time to teach myself.

Also, with the year long clinic and law review counting as P/F credits, these exams are 6 credits out of like 70 total so far. If I get two A's I still can't move up to summa and if I get two C's I still won't move down from magna, and I have a job, so I'm not too worried about it.

Both exams are open book, open everything, so just a matter of getting the basics and getting my stuff together.

eyedea, where do you go and where you working this summer?

You can be vague if you want

I'm not working this coming summer, I'm taking the bar. Last summer and next fall, big firm. You can probably guess the city I am from/go to school in.

NY? what are we talking vault (5), (10)? good luck on the bar.

onoble,

hint: look at my avatar.

also, vault can sucka sucka. the firm pays market and isn't laying people off. 'nuff for me.

got ya, so you had a rough OCI.

LOL

wtf, guy just owned me, didn't he?

actually had an offer from every firm in the city and picked the one i liked best. sorry they don't rank top 10 on a nyc-centric arbitrary ranking from a company thats most up to date data includes secretary surveys from 2001 and values "free donuts on fridays" as an important factor for consideration.

your ability to put together a celtics avatar and a "you can probably guess the city im from" and come up with NYC is gonna really blow them away at skadden! top 5! woo hoo!

So if you have a Celtics avatar you are automatically from Boston? Are you serious? Am I automatically from South Park, CO?

Glad you got an offer "from every firm in the city." Really? You got an offer from all 1,000+ of them... Congrats!!!

Speaking in vault rankings was just a way for you to respond without being specific in case you didn't want to be -- that's all. You certainly bragged throughout this thread about how awesome you did in school, I just wanted to know where it got you. Must suck that after all that hard work your soon to be employer won't even give you a free donut.

And I am not working at Skadden this summer. Though considering their bonus announcement that might have been my mistake.

onoble,

I think we got off on the wrong foot. I'm just angry because people like eviljeff go to top 5 schools and I am left toiling away at a TTT.

I meant that I got an offer from every firm in the city that might be mentioned on ATL.

Agreed w/ regard to bonuses.

Has it started snowing yet in South Park?


Love,

Eyedea

Wow, it's kind of amazing considering how large the numerator and denominator would be in the douche-to-****** ratio that it still equals 1. Well done.

It's not snowing.

And, again, sucks about the donuts.