Top 10%+ law review or transfer to T1

Transfer wouldn't be a bad idea, but I'll play devil's advocate here.

There are a lot of upsides to being a big fish at a lesser school if you want to stay local. OCI still comes to T3 schools looking for associates, albeit only for top students, which you now objectively are. You will have a ton of interviews with just those two lines on your resume. Law review and top 10% also makes you an easy sell for your career services office, who has an interest in good employment numbers for the school, and it's great when you're looking for a job down the road to have your own leads and someone in career services with an ear to the ground too.

I finished 1L with LR/10% at a lower ranked school, but I wanted to stay in my state so I never bothered looking at transfers. At the end of 3L, I found myself job hunting after drawing the short straw on my 2L summer clerkships (one firm only took two of 16 clerks, and the other hired no one, including their repeat clerks). Career services was more than willing to help me because I was easy to sell to firms still out there with need. I landed a few interviews over a couple weeks looking, before ultimately getting two job offers in three days. None of this happened for my lesser ranked peers, many of which bitched about CSO on facebook all day, and posted snarky fliers around the school making fun of them for being lazy.

I think you'll be fine either way.

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