Law School Discussion

You're right.  I'm back, but just to make sure you don't get the wrong idea.  I've enjoyed most of the discussions here, including the ones where people strongly disagreed.

But I gotta crack down.

So good things to everyone.

Quote from: KareBear on August 18, 2004, 06:06:50 PM

Anyone know the averages for Cornell?
It's taking them AGES to process my damn transcript. 

LSAC must be really flooded now.  I confirmed from both of my undergrad registrars that transcripts were mailed last Tuesday and my LSAC account status still says they haven't been received.

This is just a public service or whatever it's called for my fellow LSDers!  I went through the Official ABA Data on various law schools (see the LSAC website), got the percentages of graduates from various law schools who go on to do judicial clerkships (i.e., this is not at at all a comprehensive list but simply a personal one), and ranked the schools in order from highest to lowest.  In parenthesis, I also included the actual or raw number of graduates clerking out of the total number of those employed (which will in addition give you a rough idea of how large each school's class is).  It was originally just for me (nerd that I am), but perhaps some of you guys might benefit from this, too?  Anyhow, if you're interested here ya go (if not, sorry about that):

38.3   (72/188)   Yale
26.3   (47/179)   Stanford
23.3   (45/193)   Minnesota
22.0   (118/537) Harvard
21.4   (39/182)   Chicago
20.0   (72/360)   UVa
19.3   (68/352)   Michigan
17.5   (22/126)   University of Washington
16.2   (73/450)   NYU
15.5   (27/174)   Cornell
15.2   (36/237)   Penn
15.0   (57/382)   Columbia
14.0   (24/171)   Vanderbilt
13.1   (36/275)   Boalt
13.0   (29/223)   Duke
12.6   (27/215)   Northwestern
10.8   (48/446)   Texas
10.6   (59/558)   GULC
  6.2   (12/193)   WUSTL
  5.9   (08/135)   UC Davis
  5.5   (15/273)   UCLA
  5.2   (10/194)   USC
  4.1   (14/345)   Hastings

BTW, I also totally recommend checking out something called (and this is a mouthful), "The 2004 BCG Attorney Search Guide to Class Ranking Distinctions and Law Review Admission at America's Top 50 Law [sic]."  It's got some pretty cool general info on the Top 50 law schools that'll probably get us even more jittery over apps and stuff.   Here it is:

http://www.bcgsearch.com/bcgguide.pdf

I just emailed LSAC.  If you're having problems too, please take a moment to write to them too.  Their "time saving" program is a major waste of time.  It's pretty irresponsible to release a program that is so full of glitches.