0L Tuesday Thread - - June 16, 2020

BU with a half scholarship is still going to be extremely expensive with good-but-not-great odds at BL, clerkships, or other jobs that you might find you're interested in. If you have any way of supporting yourself for a year (even if it's living at home), I would take that year, do some volunteer work, and take the LSAT. Your prospects coming out of a T14 school are going to be lightyears better than what you could get out of BU.

I'll just give you my perspective: I picked a T25 school with a full scholarship + full living stipend, so I graduated with no debt. I was one of a small number of people who was extremely lucky to get a V10 firm job and clerkship opportunities. But (and I don't mean for this to sound braggy at all) I was literally one of maybe 5-10 people in my class of almost 300 people to whom this applied. Maybe 70 of us got biglaw, but it was mostly at lower-ranked regional firms; about 20 of those were in NY/DC. And very, very few of us have been fortunate enough to get federal clerkships. The ONLY part of this story that makes me not question my decision to go to a T25 was being able to graduate with no debt. If I was coming out with even $50-70k in loans, I would have really regretted this decision. And there are still moments where I wonder whether I should have just stuck it out a year and re-taken the LSAT (I was just 2-3 points below a score that would have gotten me into M/V/P/D)

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