<p>Hey Maroon8 - thanks again for the info. Another quick question, you mentioned that students on campus now who wanted to go to a good law school “quietly took care of business” and succeeded. One of the trends I harp on, however, is the general opaque nature of pre-law info at Chicago. When I was at the U of C, very few Chicago students knew the world of law admissions well, or understood that, beyond going to top schools or great feeder schools for a specific region, law could be a dubious undertaking. Accordingly, I know too many people who then wound up at U of Houston Law, New York Law School, Chicago Kent law, etc. </p>
<p>Has this improved at all? So many Chicago students wind up going to law school because it seems to fit nicely with their liberal arts background. With a student body that’s decidedly not pre-professional, I thought the pre-law advisors would have an even bigger duty to the undergrad population at Chicago. In short, success breeds success, and if more Chicago students had a more informed look at law school, many grads would make different decisions. </p>
<p>As a counterpoint to this, I looked at Penn’s pre-law statistics, and what impressed me the most was that it seemed students made very good informed choices. Penn sends a heavy contingent of kids (maybe 20-30 a year) to Temple Law, but not, say to Widener or other local law schools. This implies that Penn students understand the basic axiom that, in the law game, it makes sense to go to the best ranked school you can get into, or go to the best feeder school in the region where you want to work. Are students at Chicago more aware of all of this, or how did you go about getting info on how this process works? </p>
<p>(At Penn, I found it’s largely word of mouth - there is a strong culture of success at the school, and an emphasis on status and going to the best school possible. Kids mainly just listened to other kids, and fell in line for this process.)</p>