In at UVA but: UVA vs Columbia?

Possible_byfaith

I’m in at UVA.

Waiting to hear back from other T-14 schools. Curious to hear the community’s thoughts about UVA vs Columbia vs UPENN — but mostly UVA vs Columbia.

I love UVA — it’s oft discussed collegiality, clerk and big law placement, lack of class rankings, opportunity to graduate with a well-rounded education, proximity to D.C legal market with advantage of national name recognition. Nevertheless, Columbia seems to carry stronger name recognition (sorry to be so focused on rankings and prestige), perhaps, as does UPENN.

But what do you all think. Just very curious.

Pride Only Hurts

Columbia does have the bigger name. But I encourage you to check out UVAs employment statistics. https://abovethelaw.com/schools/university-of-virginia-law/ Here's Columbia. https://abovethelaw.com/schools/columbia-law/ might be easier if you know what you want to do. I'm mostly looking at Clerkship numbers for myself when I compare employment stats. Columbia seems to place a massive amount of its students into Big Law while very few go on to do Federal Clerkships. So if you're like me and know you don't want to go into Big Law, Columbia might even be a little less appealing than UVA.

Mario Robo

I think it depends what you want to do and also take into account the cost of attending each of those schools. That can make a huge difference because all those schools are amazing.