‘Big Law’ is not her interest. And Top 14 (again, why is it Top 14 instead of Top 15? Or Top 25?) isn’t necessarily what she is thinking either. She only wants a solid law school after college. Maybe something in the Top 50. But that decision will come later. Hopefully after 4 years of college, she’ll have a very good idea what area of law she will pursue. Which, of course, will help determine the law school. She has already done a paid internship in a relatively small local law firm (large for here, but small by DC or NYC standards), and the next summer with an organization offering free legal aid to income disadvantaged people.
collegemom, the problem is that I don’t know which colleges may have strong internship possibilities. I would assume the rankings reflect that in some measure. I’m sure there are many LAC’s that do, but how would one find out, without spending a ton of time researching? Even with research, every college likely will claim to have those strong ties. And every one of them likely can offer examples. I’ve looked at the two or three law schools that provide information on where their accepted students attended undergrad. But the information is so scare as to be almost useless. Any pointers on other sources of information I can access? It would be nice if LSAT numbers were provided by undergrad college.
It’s too late to really worry about this, as far as applying. But I was talking to another parent yesterday and was curious as to how the LAC their daughter will be attending compares with the Nationals. So this is really just a ‘curiosity’ post rather than a ‘gaming the system’ post.