I couldn't agree with AlphaGam more.....when I graudated from college, I was faced with a choice: full scholarship at a well respected law school in my area, or 100K plus of debt at an Ivy League. My dad told me to go for broke and attend the Ivy, and I have never once regretted it. While you can get an excellent education at a lesser ranked school, the options you have are greater coming out of a top ranked school, and you don't have to be first in your class and on law review to get a great job.
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Originally posted by AlphaGam1019
My bf, who's a 3L at HLS, made the following comments:
G8Ralphaxi's right that you can get nice firm offers to make decent money without going to a top 10 law school. BUT see, I could be the biggest loser at harvard and walk into one of those jobs. Granted, debt may not allow me to take a job for $70k when top in the market is $100k- but I have the choice. When you graduate from a lower tier school, you have to be in the top third of your class to even get a job at a midlaw type environment. If you're even a single tick below it, you're basically going to end up in a job where you don't make any more money than if you just got a job out of college (and, probably not doing something you want -- ie public defender or city attorney, etc).
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