good student at rutgers?

choochoo
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:45:14 +0000

I work at a Wall Street law firm as a paralegal. In my department, there’s a guy who worked his way thru Rutgers waiting tables at Applebys, then aced the LSATs and went to Columbia Law. Another guy (a recently made partner) transferred out of SUNY Buffalo after a year so he could live at home and save $$, worked his way thru Queens college, aced the LSATs and went to NYU Law (on a par w/ Harvard and Columbia in the legal world). Lawyers here went from Brandeis, U Penn or Dartmouth to Columbia Law; Williams to Duke Law; Montclair State College to Rutgers Law; USC to USC Law or Notre Dame Law; Georgetown to NYU Law; Oregon State, Northwestern, Duke or Columbia to Georgetown Law; Northwestern or Duke to U Penn Law; Duke to UVA Law; American U or Univ of S Fla to Hofstra Law; University of Minn to UCLA Law; UC Berkeley to Boston College Law; Colgate to Harvard Law; U Michigan or Boston U to GWU Law; and U Delaware or SUN Oneonta to Fordham Law. I know one who went to Yale undergrad, then got an MBA at Columbia, and because she was drowning in student debt went to Fordham Law on scholarship; now she makes $250K a year here as a lawyer. The LSATs are what will make or break you; get A’s in all your classes, prep for the LSAT, and you’ll get into Harvard whether your undergrad is at a community college and you transfer into Rutgers OR you graduated from Princeton. Other fields, it’s not so clear cut; for anyone headed to a Wall Street law firm, this is how it is.