<p>UCLAri:</p>
<p>Look, I have no current plans to attend law school, but I did look into the matter. If you start reading law school literature, it is full of references to the top-14 schools, which appear to be more “national” and improve one’s chances of getting a good law firm position upon graduation. </p>
<p>Visit any law school message board and you will see many references to the top-14 law schools.</p>
<p>Here are a few references that I quickly found looking around the web:</p>
<p>"There are only 14 top law schools. Thats right. Not 10, not 15, but 14. They are, in descending order of prestige: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, UC Berkeley, and Georgetown. And thats it. Go to any other law school, and your chances of getting a big law firm job will be slim to none. </p>
<p>There are also distinct levels of prestige within the top 14. Yale, Harvard, and Stanford are head and shoulders above the rest. Then Columbia, NYU and maybe Chicago round out the top 6. Attending one of these top top law schools will vastly improve your odds. The guy graduating at the bottom of the class at Harvard will have better career opportunities than the guy graduating at the top of the class at an ordinary law school."
<a href=“http://www.calicocat.com/2004_08_29_archive.html[/url]”>http://www.calicocat.com/2004_08_29_archive.html</a></p>
<p>“So you’d like to… get into a top 14 Law School
A guide by veganvenus, Harvard Law School, Class of 2008, LSAT teacher”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/VC1F03PMPDF/102-0251938-2692920[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/VC1F03PMPDF/102-0251938-2692920</a></p>
<p>“I’m currently a 1L at a top 14 school and feeling very unhappy. I’m doubtful of whether I want to return,” says a weepy Vault member. Help this poor sucker out! Visit the Law Board and let her know whether she should stick it out or say sayonara."</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.vault.com/static/newsletters/html/2_11493.html[/url]”>http://www.vault.com/static/newsletters/html/2_11493.html</a></p>