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<p>Neither am I, since "[real</a> life practice](<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence]real">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence)" gives you only statistically meaningless conclusions. Broad employment data, on the other hand, as earlier I extensively provided, is not subject to the same inherent flaws and unreliability. That is why when assessing risk we use surveys and tables and not individual stories about that one guy you knew from Baylor (or whatever). </p>
<p>You’re absolutely right that “[p]lenty of people have perfectly successful careers at highly reputable firms/companies without going to an Ivy league school and working in NYC.” You’re absolutely wrong in thinking that’s relevant or helpful. Plenty of people make money playing the lottery. That doesn’t change the expected value or if you should play. That’s especially true today since those people with the careers you mentioned graduated law school in a time other than the Great Recession when tuition was a fraction of what it is and the supply of lawyers nowhere near as high. </p>
<p>You can attempt to recharacterize “reliance on evidence” as “dogma” if you want. You claim to be a lawyer, so I’ll let you decide how persuasive you think that will be.</p>
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<p>Admittedly you’ve been here longer than I have, but I haven’t noticed we’re all that northeast-centric. I know I’m not since I’ve neither lived in the northeast nor have any desire to. Rather, it’s often that the people who come here want to end up employed as lawyers and the northeast happens to be where the vast majority of jobs are. For those interested in other places, the data provides answers on where to go to school too. It’s just that the question is less-often asked.</p>