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Bay Area law schools? |
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I guess |
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12/14/2001 |
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If you're asking if Stanford and Boalt are less desirable
because SV and SF have some layoffs, I'd have to think that the answer is no. Both schools are great, will have great placement, and will continue to be tough admits.
If you had asked instead whether the third tiers in CA might be have tougher placement, then question would be much more complex.
With Stanford and Boalt, only the worst economies can prevent even bottom grads from finding a job, and the economic fluctations have more effect on the number of job options. As to formulae, who can say, but admissions tend to get tougher when times are tougher, because applications increase.
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my thinking goes something like this:
While the applicant pool will increase, more of the people that wind up having a choice between, say, Stanford and Columbia, will go to Columbia even though Stanford is considered to be "better" (of course, this is taking into account some fairly outrageous attitudes towards the relative standings of schools in the top 14) because people with that kind of choice will figure that there will be fewer regional jobs in the SF Bay Area relative to the opportunities in NYC and the advantages of having a toehold in the city already.
I think this is truer for Boalt (I know people at Boalt who are by no means even in the bottom of the class who are having a hard time finding jobs -- in the BA or otherwise) but think that in the convoluted minds of some top-10-school contenders, this might even be a factor for Stanford.
You are probably right, but I wonder if the admissions people at Boalt and Stanford are sweating a little. Third tier I'm sure is worried - probably even a super solid place like Hastings has to worry a bit, no?
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