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I was convinced to go to Georgetown over places that offered scholarship money
(say, Notre Dame) on the advice of numerous individuals who claimed it would be
much easier to find a job coming out of GU than anywhere else I'd been admitted.
Obviously, I can't say whether this was true, but Georgetown, like a lot of
top-tier schools, is really mostly interested in placing you with firms. Most of
the career services office energy goes into early recruiting. And the quality of
the counseling is very spotty. Some counselors (Anna Nicol!) are wonderful and
are really willing to work with you and help you, and understand that you live in
the real world with huge debt and that the goal is getting you a job, others live
in some fantasyland where they're concerned that you *like* the job. Which is
important, but not as important as not being in default. The public interest
careers office is staffed by REALLY wonderful people who are so eager and willing
to help... unfortunately, in a crap economy, it's just really hard. My
experience is that you have to do a LOT of legwork on your own if you don't want
the big-firm-2200-billables life. Which is fine, but law schools tend to mislead
you on that point. The jobs board is pretty good... that's where I found my
post-grad employment, and where I found most of my in-school employment as well.
Supposedly Georgetown's quite an impressive name, but I can almost guarantee it
had absolutely nothing to do with me getting my one job offer. (Also, I have an
undergrad degree from an even more impressive place, so I'd guess that name has
more to do with my resume getting noticed, if anything.) Campus recruiting for
big firms is pretty extensive; for government/public interest, not so much, but
there IS on-campus recruiting for that stuff, which I gather is not the norm.
It's important to note that you cannot get class credit for any kind of term-time
work, even if it's unpaid, unless it's through a clinic on campus.
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