What's the difference between a first-tier law school and a second-tier law school?
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What's the difference between a first-tier law school and a second-tier law school?
 
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michr
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$20,000.00 a year in tuition
other then that nothing |
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uclari
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There is a noticeably large gap between the top schools (the so-called "t14") and even the 15th-ranked school.
Consider Brian Leiter's, a fairly well-known and respected law professor, rankings. He looks at the performance of top schools at placing their graduates at "biglaw" firms. The difference between Harvard (top 3) and UCLA (top 15 or so) is astounding. Harvard consistently places graduates in top firms in large numbers and has them scattered at all of the top firms. UCLA, by contrast, is far more regional and only places graduates in around 1/4 of the firms that Harvard does.
And that's going from top 3 to top 15 or so.
While you can obviously succeed as a graduate of UCLA's law school, you will have to be in the top 10% or so of the class to do so: and everyone plans on doing that when they get there. At least at Harvard or Chicago or NYU you can be in the top 25% and still get the kind of job you'd get at a 2nd tier law school for being a gunner in the top 10%. It may even be more lenient for the top 5 grad than top 25%, simply because of the known quality of the graduates.
Basically the difference, therefore, is national career opportunities. If UCLA, in the top 15, can't land students in the biggest name firms, it is much harder for a top 50 law school to do it. Essentially a tier 1 school is a hedge against the risk that you might have a bad semester/quarter and won't be top 10%. |
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Ira01
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You will have a wider variety of job opportunities open to you the better the law school that you go to. For example, large law firms hire most of their people from top law schools. Ditto for landing a federal clerkship. The precise "tiers" depend on who you ask, however. For maximum flexibility, you want to stay in the top 50 law schools, although the second half of that group will also limit your options a bit. Of course, it depends on what you want to do. Certainly most graduates of even third-tier law schools get jobs -- just not typically the same jobs as first-tier graduates. |
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notoriety, graduates who've excelled and COST |
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