Good professors, excellent location, good name in the market and useful for future employment

Expensive tuition, library is bit dated, and class sizes can be big

Be clear about why you want an LLM - better to do a specialisation

Yes

The people are the best. So friendly. Everyone works hard but no one is overly competitive.

Liberal teachers can sometimes shove their beliefs down your throat. focus much more on policy than actual "lawyer" stuff.

Come stop by and check us out. Come to any events that the school offers

Yes

Student body with diverse interest (not just corporate law)

Ideal location for graduate school

Great corporate and art law instructors

Lack of cohesiveness to student body

Less name recognition / prestige than similarly ranked schools

Consider the pros/cons of being in the middle of a large city

Yes

The atmosphere was not overly competitive, and the professors were top notch.

Although located in the heart of Greenwich Village may be appealing to some, the lack of a real college campus was a negative for me.

If you are intending to work in New York City, there is no better school to attend. Employers basically beat down your door to interview you.

Yes

Great culture and professors. Less competitive culture and more about learning.

I think that there should be a great emphasis on certain requirements such as corporations.

There is great career services and all you have to do is decently to get into top law firms. A great choice for anybody.

Yes

The very collegial atmosphere of the school. Students are not cut throat and more than willing to help each other out or share outlines.

Although all the professors are brilliant, some don't make the best teachers.

Great T-10 school with laid back back classmates. Also excellent place to study international law and take classes with LLMs from all over the world.

Yes

Challenging. A lot of transactional classes. Practical approach. Good career prospects. Many extra curricular opportunities.

Not much guidance on course selection and work load. Not enough career resources for international LLMs.

Don't make it harder than it already is. Take easier classes and a few in your field of interest. Don't take too many hard ones at the same time.

Yes

The professors all extremely knowledgeable in their field and beyond.

Everyone here is smart and work hard, to achieve you need be working even harder.

How you handle the pressure is important consideration, but the school name do open a lot of door for you.

Yes

There are ample resources for any kind of law that you'd like to study, though the curriculum trends toward public interest. If you want to be a corporate lawyer, you can make your way here, but if you want to be a public defender, work for a non-profit or work for the government, there are so many offerings you won't adequately be able to take everything you want to.

Given the emphasis on public interest, it's awfully expensive. Most of the people I went to school with ended up at big law firms because of crushing student loan debt. Many will stay there. Most of us went to law school to study public interest law, but it's hard to practice this with so much debt. I think the school should offer more opportunities such as part time programs or scholarships for public interest work.

Studying in New York can be wonderful but can also make it difficult to focus. If you want a more studious experience, go to Cornell or Michigan. In Greenwich Village, there's always something else going on that can keep you from hitting the books, for better or worse.

Yes