Boston U or Fordham?

honna

源自亲身经历才是最准的

Jimoney

Question here:

According to USnews, the 25%-75% private sector salary for fordham and bu graduates are 70k-125k and 110k-125k respectively.

If fordham places half of the class in biglaw in NYC, why is there a huge difference in salary at the lower end ? is that those fordham graduates who couldn't get into biglaw fare far worse than that of bu graduates?  what am i missing here.

Thanks.

neohawk

以下是引用Jimoney在2007-4-20 10:50:00的发言：

Question here:

According to USnews, the 25%-75% private sector salary for fordham and bu graduates are 70k-125k and 110k-125k respectively.

If fordham places half of the class in biglaw in NYC, why is there a huge difference in salary at the lower end ? is that those fordham graduates who couldn't get into biglaw fare far worse than that of bu graduates?  what am i missing here.

Thanks.

Maybe the less paid graduates of BU did not turn in the survey.

funnytiger

以下是引用Jimoney在2007-4-20 10:50:00的发言：

Question here:

According to USnews, the 25%-75% private sector salary for fordham and bu graduates are 70k-125k and 110k-125k respectively.

If fordham places half of the class in biglaw in NYC, why is there a huge difference in salary at the lower end ? is that those fordham graduates who couldn't get into biglaw fare far worse than that of bu graduates?  what am i missing here.

Thanks.

good finding!

you are right. the risk of going to a lower ranked school is that you cannot screw up your grades in law school. if you fall into the second half of the class, you are dead meat. (in law, we call it "a job in toliet law")

if you are afraid of those hopeless law classes, go to the highest ranked school you can possibly go.

neohawk

以下是引用funnytiger在2007-4-20 11:36:00的发言：

good finding!

you are right. the risk of going to a lower ranked school is that you cannot screw up your grades in law school. if you fall into the second half of the class, you are dead meat. (in law, we call it "a job in toliet law")

if you are afraid of those hopeless law classes, go to the highest ranked school you can possibly go.

This should not be the only reason, otherwise it will be pretty difficult to understand the lower-bound salary difference between UCLA and USC.

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jeremyang

If you want biglaw in NY, Fordham is the choice.  You cant beat the location and the top third really places very well in NY. (most in V50 or better)

If you are not sure where you want to practice law at this moment, BU is the choice. There are decent numbers of BU graduates got offers from biglaw in NY or DC area.

mmmxxtt

Fordham is quite good in NYC.

况天佑

哦，这样

慕萧峰

只有在NYC工作过才知道location的重要。