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UCLA or Boston College - Please Help!
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:11 PM Author: hairraiser box office therapy Subject: UCLA or Boston College ($$$)? Hi-
I would really appreciate some advice. I have two strange options and don't know what to do. I wanted to go to Michigan, but I've been dinged from their waistlist.
UCLA - Out of state tuition. Small possibility of becoming a resident. OR
Boston Colelge - with $10,000 a year in scholarships. Will equate to UCLA in year 2 if I become a California resident.
My goal is to work at a BigLaw firm out of law school and then eventually work as inhouse counsel at a pharma or biotech company. I believe I want to live on the East Coast: NYC, Boston, DC. I currently live in Boston and have connections with partners at McDermott Will & Emery, Foley Hoag, and Nutter. Does UCLA have such an advantage prestige-wise or national placement wise that it is worth moving and perhaps spending $30-40 k more overall?
Thanks!
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:16 PM Author: Greedy floppy stage mad-dog skullcap UCLA is a top 15 school and about 10 spots higher in the rankings. Stop being a friggin troll.
UCLA is essentially equivalent to a Top 10 school on the West Coast due to enhanced regional prestige.
Furthermore, Boston?? Versus Southern California???
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:19 PM Author: Opaque pistol plaza I've got to think if you want to work in boston you would be better off taking BC over UCLA money or no money. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995050) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:23 PM Author: Greedy floppy stage mad-dog skullcap Oh, so firms stop looking at national rankings after the 14th school, do they now?
BC is ranked what 24?
Furthermore, you're advocating a regional school based upon the likelihood of settling down in a small, regional city?
UCLA is national, and also regionally stronger on the West Coast, which has legal markets in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Riverside, Palo Alto, San Francisco, as well as smaller cities.
California has 50% of the country's millionaires living there and has an economy which rivals that of countries.
You'd be a fool to choose BC over UCLA. |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:25 PM Author: concupiscible demanding cruise ship Umm, no not quite, UCLA troll. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995119) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:27 PM Author: Greedy floppy stage mad-dog skullcap Sure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995143) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:37 PM Author: Dashing yarmulke UCLA is a borderline TTT although not quite a TTT like USC or vandy.
UCLA is NOT equivalent to t10 schools. This is nuts. UCLA is a safe net for t14 people. Even cornell is harder to get in than UCLA. Fucking douchetard |
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Date: June 16th, 2006 9:43 AM Author: Crawly sinister ticket booth Completely false on all counts. The misinformation spread on this board is ridiculous. |
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Date: June 16th, 2006 9:48 AM Author: Crawly sinister ticket booth UCLA Acceptance Rate: 16.1% Cornell Acceptance Rate: 20.6% GPA/ LSATs are nearly identical for both. htfh. http://www.ilrg.com/rankings/law/index.php/1/asc/Accept
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:28 PM Author: Opaque pistol plaza Firms dont look at the national rankings at all, they hire people from the schools of the lawyers who are already at the firm.
Search, say ropes and gray's boston office and compare the number of BC people (30ish) to UCLA people (0). |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:30 PM Author: Greedy floppy stage mad-dog skullcap By student choice.
You're advocating a regional school based upon the likelihood of settling down in a small, regional city?
UCLA is national, and also regionally stronger on the West Coast, which has legal markets in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Riverside, Palo Alto, San Francisco, as well as smaller cities.
California has 50% of the country's millionaires living there and has an economy which rivals that of countries.
You'd be a fool to choose BC over UCLA.
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:31 PM Author: concupiscible demanding cruise ship So...because they have lots of millionaires, its a good place to work. Okay bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995186) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:34 PM Author: Greedy floppy stage mad-dog skullcap "So...because they have lots of millionaires, its a good place to work. Okay bro."
HAHAHAHA. You're dumb. |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:36 PM Author: concupiscible demanding cruise ship Explain. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995251) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:36 PM Author: Opaque pistol plaza He wants to live in boston. He also mentioned NYC, UCLA has 6 people at Skadden New York, BC has 16, etc etc. Look at the GTO emplyment study. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995246) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:54 PM Author: Greedy floppy stage mad-dog skullcap SKADDEN
New York UCLA - 9 (not 6) Boston College - 16
D.C. Boston College - 5 UCLA - 5
Los Angeles UCLA - 32 Boston College - 2
San Francisco/ Palo Alto UCLA - 10 Boston College - 1
htfh
(P.S.: Lack of east coast pwn3ge is likely due to student self-selection.) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:20 PM Author: concupiscible demanding cruise ship BC all the way. No question about it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995059) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:25 PM Author: green comical cuckoldry ask the partners you know what they think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995112) |
Date: June 15th, 2006 5:20 PM Author: Marvelous tan factory reset button public bath i don't feel like posting useful information in this thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995060) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:22 PM Author: Aromatic onyx state stain This was probalby the best post of the day. I had similar thoughts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995092) |
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Date: June 15th, 2006 5:29 PM Author: Marvelous tan factory reset button public bath ty. congrats on cornell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5995163) |
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Date: June 16th, 2006 9:38 AM Author: hairraiser box office therapy Subject: Still need help: BC v. UCLA A question to the posters-
Do you come from the respective schools?
How important is school representation at a firm in getting an interview and a job?
The Boston firms tell me to go to BC. But I'm not sure I want to do BigLaw forever. Like I said, I'd like to work on inhouse counsel |
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Date: June 16th, 2006 9:41 AM Author: Crawly sinister ticket booth You're obviously afraid to leave your gumba friends out on the East Coast. My advice to you: stay there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=435406&forum_id=2#5999949) |
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Date: June 16th, 2006 9:40 AM Author: Crawly sinister ticket booth Skadden Los Angeles Placement:
Duke: 1
Northwestern: 4
Cornell: 7
UCLA: 33 (*1 misfiled under U. Chicago)
USC: 7 :-(
Harvard: 15
Yale: 3
Stanford: 9
Columbia: 9
NYU: 13
UVA: 2
Chicago: 0 (1 misfiled, U. Chicago undergrad only)
Michigan: 3
Boalt: 3 :-(
Georgetown: 4
omg omg, buh buh buh GTO's study... buh buh buh
I hope this helps.
www.skadden.com
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Date: June 16th, 2006 9:40 AM Author: Crawly sinister ticket booth IRELL PLACEMENT
Yale: 16
Virginia: 3
USC: 18
UCLA: 24
Stanford: 8
Georgetown: 4
Harvard: 29
Michigan: 3
NYU: 4
Penn: 4
Northwestern: 2
Boalt: 20
Chicago: 10
Cornell: 1
Columbia: 14
Duke: 4
Georgetown: 4
Steep dropoff after the T6. Steep.
*Strong* west coast prestige (USC, UCLA).
omg, omg omg omg. buh buh buh, GTO, the study. buh buh
www.irell.com
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