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GULC vs. Cardozo |
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Sorry to belabor the point |
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05/18/2000 |
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I completely agree with the original poster's
taking into consideration the location of Cardozo, and differences in $$, and I do agree that quality of life makes a difference.
If the original poster cannot live in the DC area for some idiosyncratic reason, then
I can see some point in hesitation.
But I must say, even tho I strongly believe in looking at more than just school rank,
Georgetown's rank will open so many more doors, that I have to think that, for the ordinary "reasonable law candidate", Georgetown would be a clear choice.
Unless one has a basis like "my fiance lives 2 blocks from Cardozo and she'll leave me
if I don't go there" or "Cardozo will pay my entire toll and I have no money available for Georgetown" or even "I can only study within sight of my hometown and I can't imagine EVER leaving", then I'd vote Georgetown. I'm sure Cardozo has its fine points, and I'm not knockin' Cardozo, but Georgetown will offer a tremendous advantage when it comes to placement, and the NY market is well familiar with Georgetown.
So I think that the original poster is thinking about the right factors, but Georgetown's reputation nonetheless must be accorded a stronger factor than the locale,
quality of life and $$ factors listed by the original poster. As they say, how much you think, but how well you think, that makes for a correct decision. Here, I think that the original poster must take into account the vast reputation difference between "good" Cardozo and "beyond great" Georgetown,
reputation-wise.
It's a bit curious to me, anyway--
can Georgetown and Cardozo really have major quality of life differences? Very different locales (albeit neither with palm trees), but I seem to remember law school as a bunch of nights at the typewriter and
days listening to people pepper us with questions about fireworks setting off bizarre train station accidents and such....isn't that a universal? |
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Beyond the wordy thing I wrote just before this one, I think there's a more telling comparison.
Go to the US News law school comparison table, and enter both Georgetown and Cardozo.
You will get a table which compares all sortsa statistics, like cost to attend, tier, etc.
Two statistics are of interest in this vein.
One shows the average salaries of grads in the top 25th percentile, and the average salaries in the top 75th percentile. Both
schools show that the 75th percentile grads
do very well. The 25th percentile grads from Georgetown do dramatically better than
the 25th percentile from Cardozo--the difference is tens of thousands of dollars.
Similarly, the other statistic--median pay--
is 20K plus higher for Georgetown than for Cardozo, which I surmise to be particularly telling, as Cardozo is largely a NY market school, and a higher percentage of Georgetown grads are apt to go to non-Ny, non-SV cities which offer in general lower pay.
I'm not saying Cardozo is bad at all--the numbers for Cardozo are pretty good. It's just that the Georgetown figures are so much better.
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