<p>If you are a straight-faced applicant for all four schools, then apply to all four. Once you’ve gotten acceptance letters, and you are comparing prices (e.g. Hamilton scholarship or full-price at Columbia), then we can talk. Which is to say, for almost every person who sits for the LSAT, the question is really a moot point.</p>
<p>A lot of it depends on your own personal connections to NYC and whom you know in the NYC legal field. It may even depend on whether you are working for a firm based out of NYC, or a California firm with a satellite office.</p>