<li>Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)</li>
<li>University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)</li>
<li>University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, Michigan)</li>
<li>Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
5.New York University (New York, New York)</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana)</li>
<li>Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts)</li>
<li>University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)</li>
<li>The George Washington University (Washington, DC)</li>
</ol>
<p>Just to reiterate/add to your list, the 2006 list was:</p>
<ol>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>New York University</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>Georgetown University</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>University of California - Berkeley</li>
</ol>
<p>This list is based on how satisfied the students are, subjectively, with their own experience seeking jobs, NOT how good they think their prospects are relative to other law schools. Satisfaction with any experience always has a lot to do with whether one’s expectations were met or exceeded. Note Yale’s absence from both lists…I strongly suspect that this has to do with the fact that YLS grads (with good reason) expect the most competitive jobs to fall into their laps automatically, so if they only get offers from 7 of the top 10 firms, or only from non-feeder judges, they may be disappointed. I’ve seen it happen many times.</p>
<p>I doubt that there’s a single kid at Yale (or Stanford or Columbia) who thinks he’d have better career prospects if he’d gone to GW or BU.</p>