<p>"I’m slightly below the median GPA-wise at UVA, which is a lower T14 school, and I’m still at a firm ranked in the top 50. I have friends with GPA’s lower than mine that are working at big NYC firms as well, and then there are people who went for smaller markets - like Seattle or St. Louis. They all have big law firm jobs however and the only person I can think of who graduated without a job, also never participated in on campus interviews or interviewed anywhere at all. It may not guarantee you a job IF you’re a total social ■■■■■■ who can’t form a sentence or you actively don’t make any effort at all to find a job - jobs don’t fall in your lap here unfortunately, you still have to interview for them - but if you’re a normal person who goes through the appropriate steps, you’re going to get a big law job at a T14 (* unless the market realllly tanks). </p>
<p>Knowing that you’ll have a job when you graduate, combined with the B+ curve that the top schools have (which allows you to pretend you’re doing well even though secretly a B+ is just average) - makes for a very stress free 3 years. I hear people talk about how hellish law school was and I can’t even slightly comprehend this - I’ve had a great time and for me, it’s been about as stressful as undergrad."</p>
<p>Any opinions on the above? That made me feel a looooooooooot better about things.</p>