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<p>You are certainly entitled to your opinion. The fact of the matter is that law firms do indeed care – particularly the most competitive law firms that pay the highest salaries. The part you are missing is that because law firms care, so do law schools. A significant factor in law school rankings (which law schools claim not to care about, but it is quite clear that they actually do care quite a bit) is placement in law firms (reflected in percentage employed numbers), placement in top law firms (often touted by career placement offices as a reason to come to a particular law school) and average starting salaries (which are pulled upward by students who work for, you guessed it, the most competitive law firms that pay the highest salaries). In addition, law schools care because they try their darndest to compose entering classes of not only the students with the highest scores, but also the students with the most interesting and diverse backgrounds (one of the reasons why, for example, students with so many different majors are welcome at law school). The more time an applicant has had to have interesting and diverse experiences, the more attractive a candidate they become. </p>
<p>I’ve been involved with law school applicants and law firm applicants for a lot of years now (more than I care to admit), but you are certainly welcome to take my advice or leave it. However, I would prefer if you wouldn’t try to shoot down my advice, which is based on actual experiences, merely because it doesn’t suit your point of view.</p>