Not only is the campus situated in HEAVEN, but it has worldwide reach.

Michigan doesn't really place that well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2623737&forum_id=2#25970295)

And don't even get started on secondary markets. Ties matter much more than pedigree for those markets, and a HYS degree can actually work against you. I had a friend who attended HYS and had owned a home a secondary market for 10 years before she went to law school (and continued to own it while she was in law school). She mass mailed every major firm in the city. It resulted in two callbacks, both of which grilled her about ties for the entire interview. "Why would a HYS graduate want to work here? Normally we only hire from the local schools. We want associates who have lived here their whole lives and have all their family here." Apparently owning a home for 10 years in the market wasn't a strong enough tie.

TLDR: No law schools are truly national. If you want to have the flexibility to work in any part of the country, don't go to law school. (Actually, that's good advice generally, but it's particularly important if you don't want to be restricted to a certain geographic area.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2623737&forum_id=2#25973005)

And for whatever reason almost no Chicago firms do OCI at Stanford, and the ones that do usually send people from their other offices. There is a bro who poasts the number of Chicago associates from each top-ranked law school every year. I can try to find the thread, but my recollection is that there were something like 5 SLS associates in all of the major Chicago firms last year. (Not 5 first-year associates, but 5 associates period.) Maybe that's self-selection because nobody wants to move to Chicago after living in Palo Alto for three years; I have no idea. But the point remains that SLS places essentially no one in Chicago most years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2623737&forum_id=2#25976556)

OP wants "public sector" work so it's a no brainer for GULC if you can't get into HYS and maybe Columbia.

That's it. The point about local ties is dead on. Denver, Minneapolis, Atlanta, big legal markets are still provincial as fuck about ties.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2623737&forum_id=2#25973287)

Notre Dame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2623737&forum_id=2#25973461)

ND isn't even T25

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2623737&forum_id=2#25973463)

http://www.cracked.com/article_16478_7-movies-based-true-story-that-are-complete-bullshit.html

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/09/joe-montana-creates-a-controversy-by-debunking-rudy/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2623737&forum_id=2#25973471)

You graduate from any of the Top 50 schools at the top of your class and get a decent clerkship and you can travel well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2623737&forum_id=2#25973562)