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Originally posted by shinerbock
Well there are other ways to look at it as well. I think the large public law schools do compete in ways with the elite institutions like NYU, Columbia, Yale, etc... A degree is not the same from both, however, the financial difference often isn't large. A much larger percentage at the elite law schools go into clerkships and teaching than do those at the large universities. I think there is more of a focus of becoming part of academia once you get into the ivy's than there is at good public law schools (where the goal is usually to join some mega firm making 6 figures at the start.) Sure, you're less likely to get a prestigious clerkship at a school like UGA, but i'll settle for a job working for Alston & Bird, Kilpatrick Stockton, or Jones Day.
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I wouldn't necessarily say that; look at the rosters of firms like WilmerHale, McDermott Will & Emery, Holland & Knight, Burns Levinson, Mintz Levin, Bingham, Goodwin Procter, and any other number of big firms (including the local ones, like Brown Rudnick and Choate here in Boston). You're going to see an awful lot of Ivy leaguers on those rosters.
You can't generalize either way; yes, firms around here take students from BC and BU, but the Ivy schools are also well-represented.