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FINAL DECISION |
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Really |
| Date Posted: |
12/31/2000 |
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Hey,
I've noticed your dilemma in a few of these forum threads now. The last message I read, you were choosing Penn because of the reputation. Personally I would strongly recommend you choose Georgetown over Penn. Why?
#1 the Vault's listing of top law firms, more actually list Georgetown as a recruiting resource than Penn. Georgetown has a career services office way way above its ranking as a law school, same with its alumni network.
#2 You will be able to get a top summer associate position every summer in Washington DC, and will not have to constantly move. For this reason alone, I knew I was going to do school only in either NYC or Washington, DC.
#3 DC over Philadelphia. You have a chance to spend three years of your life, in your early twenties, in a real city. I escaped 4 years of undergraduate social hell at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and refuse to ever live in an industrial wasteland city like Baltimore or Philadelphia ever again.
If you choices come down to georgetown or UPenn (although I suspect you are waiting to hear from some NYC schools too) I heartily recommend Georgetown Law. If anyone snubs you for going there, I hope the $125,000 per year that was the AVERAGE private sector salary for 1999 graduates will help ease the wound. Congrats!
Eli_Rothblatt@yahoo.com |
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Do you seriously believe that a 125K average starting slary is accurate for ALL Georgetown graduates in the private sector??
Does that include the bottom half of the class??? It's more likely an average for the Top 10%, law review graduates.
The important thing is to look at the average salary in the private sector for ALL graduates in all jobs. Don't just take numbers like:
Private sector:
Large law firm (+100)
Number reporting:
8
Low: 125K
Median: 125K
High: 125K
Of course 125K is the average because that is what starting new Associates in large law firms get.
Of course there will always be students getting these types of offers. But when you go to law school, you must take into account the ODDS of NOT being in the lucky 10%. 10% will make it. Of those, probably 5% will land the large BIGLAW job i.e. receive a firm offer.
What are the ODDS that it will be you?? That is why you can't simply look at the 125K number in isolation.
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