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Law School Admissions / Re: U Penn or Northwestern?
« on: June 23, 2008, 01:01:55 PM »You're right, EarlCat. It's not even on offer this fall--but people who start in fall 2009 would finish with us. I know they interviewed employers who said they don't care, but I can't imagine this being a "positive" for employers. Or for the students who do it, actually. Or for Northwestern's reputation. It just seems like a bad idea all around.
Northwestern's 2 year JD is in response to requests by employers for just such a program. This article has a pretty comprehensive analysis of the program and how the Dean arrived at the decision to offer it. http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/2008/06/nwu-laws-2-year.html
And while I'm biased because I go to NU, I did choose NU over Penn, after getting off the waitlist unexpectedly at Penn. I love NU because of the people and I really can't imagine a better group of people with which to go to school. At the end of the day I think the schools are pretty similar in terms of quality,so you should pick wherever you feel most comfortable.