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I just wanted to quicly pop back in to make an additional comment about the rankings. I hear what you're saying, skee, about the need to attend a highly ranked school, but I wanted to say that my school is not necessarily a top ranked school but there are certainly a large number of top firms that recruit at our school for a host of reasons. I agree that simply wading your way through law school would not get you a good position, but that is true whereever you go. If you are a studious person, you learn what your professors are there to teach you and you develop and exercise that drive to get that job you want, you will get it. The competition out there in the legal field is fierce under any circumstances and only those who get done what they need to get done, focus in on their work, study and pass the BAR will make it. I know plenty of alumni from TMSL who are prominent judges, firm partners, elected officials, etc. who are doing quite well, their law school's rank did not stop them. I have just as much drive and ambition as the next law student and with regard to friends of mine who are also in law school at this time, and at higher ranked schools than mine, because I know them from undergrad, etc., I know my characteristics as a student will afford me more opportunities then them based on what I know about them and the way they function in school.
I just had to comment on that because I hear statements like these all the time and they simply aren't true IN ALL CASES. My undergraduate institution is one of the highest ranked institutions in America and there were students who came out with no jobs and no idea what to do and supposedly, going to this school would make us shoe-ins for whatever it was we wanted to do. It just wasn't true then and it isn't true in law school. It's about the individual drive, who you know, and how diligently you seek out opportunities available to you when it comes to your career success.
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