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Dude, you want to be sure to not only pick a cool city--but to also pick a school that is going to give you the career opportunities you're looking for. Don't just pick a school for its location--as important as that may be.
That said, there are MANY great law schools in Chicago and Boston. It obviously depends on your LSAT and GPA, but both cities are world-class towns with national law schools.
Pittsburgh is a nice town (or so I've heard). But the schools there--Pitt and Duquesne--are mostly local schools. With schools like that, you're quite likely gonna be sticking around the Pittsburgh area post-grad, whereas a Boston, Northwestern, or U. Chicago, for example, will broaden your career prospects geographically (and financially).
If I were you, I would plot out all the schools in these five or so cities you're looking at. Then match your #s up with that list and see where you fit. You should have a handful of target schools that you think you can get into spread across a few cities. Once you've got those target schools, then worry about the town. Doing this will likely knock out a city or two that doesn't have a school in your target range (if you can get up into the 160s for your LSAT, don't even bother with Pittsburgh unless you're dang sure you want to make Pittsburgh your home for a while).
I'll also second the Washington DC suggestion. There are an abundance of law schools in the area--most of them national and well-known. And you've got the sweetspot for internships and clerkships right there in town.
If you're just looking at the cities, I'd go with Boston or Chicago. But you've got schools to think about, too.....
Dude, you want to be sure to not only pick a cool city--but to also pick a school that is going to give you the career opportunities you're looking for. Don't just pick a school for its location--as important as that may be.
That said, there are MANY great law schools in Chicago and Boston. It obviously depends on your LSAT and GPA, but both cities are world-class towns with national law schools.
Pittsburgh is a nice town (or so I've heard). But the schools there--Pitt and Duquesne--are mostly local schools. With schools like that, you're quite likely gonna be sticking around the Pittsburgh area post-grad, whereas a Boston, Northwestern, or U. Chicago, for example, will broaden your career prospects geographically (and financially).
If I were you, I would plot out all the schools in these five or so cities you're looking at. Then match your #s up with that list and see where you fit. You should have a handful of target schools that you think you can get into spread across a few cities. Once you've got those target schools, then worry about the town. Doing this will likely knock out a city or two that doesn't have a school in your target range (if you can get up into the 160s for your LSAT, don't even bother with Pittsburgh unless you're dang sure you want to make Pittsburgh your home for a while).
I'll also second the Washington DC suggestion. There are an abundance of law schools in the area--most of them national and well-known. And you've got the sweetspot for internships and clerkships right there in town.
If you're just looking at the cities, I'd go with Boston or Chicago. But you've got schools to think about, too.....
Thanks for your conern, but I've already done all of the above.
Also no sense of living somewhere if you're not going to be happy there.
Agreed. The best-looking women in the US are in NYC.
Wow are you serious; Miami has beautiful women and so doze san diego and LA more than NYC. No offense but women from NYC Look like grungy and grity and mean and not attractive, sorry Pairs Hilton.
Looks like it just might be between Chicago and Boston. I'm going to take a week trip in March so I was looking to narrow down my selection so I could spend more time in a few cities rather than spend only 1-2 days in a handful of cities.
I'm still a little curious about philly though, any thoughts on how it compares with Boston and Chicago.
I can relate, gates. One of the most important things a single person wants to know when moving is, "How is the dating scene?" I was interested in moving to Boston and I wanted to learn about the dating scene. I viewed this thread:
The info was discouraging. One person even said something like, "If you want to give up dating altogether move to Boston". Ouch. Apparently, even college graduates have a tough time with the women. You should visit that thread and visit the responses, and also put in the word, "dating" in the Boston sub-forum. There is some useful info. It may seem weird to married folks but if you move to a new place and the dating scene is awful, it doesn't matter how much they pay, you don't want to live there.
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