Law school help!!!?

Question

Name 10 colleges in USA that are GOOD...And is there a good one in San Diego County???

Plz don't put Harvard, Preston, or Yale...Cuz those are common sence!!!

i'm aware that law school is a graduate school...(Princeton)...Sorry for not spelling it right...I wasn't thinking when I wrote that...Plus...thank-you for everyones help on this...I like to get other peoples point-of-view rather then what a paper says...So thank-you!!!

Answer 1

I've never heard of Preston. No other lawyer I know has either. Can't be that good.

Anyways, I really wasn't going to answer cuz Pookie's answer was really good at first. However, there's some missing information and other issues I wanted to address once s/he started going into detail about the schools. So, I'll just start all over.

USD is your best bet if you insist on a local San Diego school. However, like Loyola, it's a Tier 2 school. If you want to work in San Diego and had a choice btw the two, I'd definitely take San Diego cuz the local rep will be much better than Loyola, which has a Los Angeles area rep.

Lawyers do make a decent stink about what tier a school is as ranked by US News. That's why I have a different ranking system instead of Pookie. Pookie ranked based on what s/he thought was best for Southern California. Loyola and SD don't have a big enough clout to go beyond the county where they are located. The Tier 1 schools of UC Davis and UC Hastings (a school Pookie forgot to mention) have high enough reps to definitely trump someone from USD applying outside of San Diego or a Loyola grad applying outside of LA County. I intentionally did not include Orange County because I consider it far enough away from both schools that I would say the Tier One schools would be better.

So, here is my ranking of preferred schools for San Diego area only:

1) Stanford (true nat'l rep)
2) Berkeley (nat'l rep)
3) UCLA (known nationally, but losing steam)
4) USC (same as UCLA)
5) Univ of San Diego
6) UC Davis
7) UC Hastings
8) Loyola

After that, while Cal Western and Thomas Jefferson are pretty crappy and their ABA approval is always in doubt, their location prolly makes them a better choice than the remaining CA law schools FOR SAN DIEGO.

Also, law school is a graduate school. I'm not sure if you understand that. I'm fairly certain you're in the US, based on how you typed your question. For undergrad, get into the best one you can.

Answer 2

What does good mean to you? A tier 1, 2, or beyond? The number of people passing the bar on the first try? The average LSAT scores or GPA's or the people entering?

As for the best in the USA besides the ones you mentioned (I thnk you meant Princeton not Preston) Michigan, UC San Fran/Hastings College of Law, Iowa, VA, Georgetown, Emory, and a few others.

I think there are about 6 law schools in San Diego County, 3 accredited and 3 not. The accredited ones mean you could take your diploma and leave CA. Unaccredited means you would have to stay in CA. USD and CAL Western are two of accredited ones.

Answer 3

The highest ranked law school in San Diego County is the University of San Diego, which is in Tier 2 of US News and World Report. There are two others that are Tier 4, but I wouldn't call those "good" schools. There are also unaccredited law schools, but you should avoid those -- it's harder to pass the bar out of those schools (there's an extra exam you have to take out of your first year, and their bar passage rates for the regular bar are really low), and it's hard to get a job even once you've passed the bar.

If you're trying to stay close to San Diego County and out of Tiers 3 and 4 of the rankings, the next closest are UCLA and USC, which are really highly ranked (both in the top 20) and difficult to get into. Loyola in LA is ranked similarly to USD. Pepperdine (in Malibu) is ranked at the bottom of Tier 2. Southwestern isn't that great, but it's also in LA.

For northern California, there's Stanford and UC Berkeley near the top of the rankings. UC Davis is still Tier 1 and relatively affordable since it's public (though UC tuition for graduate students have gone up a lot in past years, so the savings over a private school are less dramatic than they once were).

If you want to practice in Southern California, and you don't get into a very highly ranked school (generally considered to be the top 14 schools at most), it's better for you career-wise to stay local because a local school has a better local reputation than a similarly-ranked out-of-state school, and you'll have an easier time finding a job for after graduation. Therefore I'm not naming anything outside of California.

By the way, the second school you named is Princeton, not Preston, and it does not have a law school. Neither do many of the schools that posters above named at random -- NONE of the Cal State schools, nor most of the UC schools.

In order of preference, these are the school I recommend in CA for practice in Southern California:
1. Stanford
2. Berkeley
3. UCLA (tie)
3. USC (tie)
5. Loyola
6. USD
7. UC Davis
8. Pepperdine
9. Southwestern
10. Tier 4 law schools

If you can't get into any of the schools listed 8 or better, I'd reconsider law school. It's extremely difficult to get a job that makes the investment worthwhile.

Good luck!

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Answer 5

You will have to check with yout State Bar Association for law schools in your State. UC Davis, UC San Francisco, Berkeley, San Diego State, UC San Diego, UC Hastings, Cal Poly SLO/Pomona...I think most of those have a Law program. If not, they have Pre-Law which will help you with the admissions requirements for Law School.