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

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

Great classes, top-notch faculty, wide variety of employment options, excellent location, friendly community

Cost – like most law schools it costs too much, unequal spread of scholarship money (handful of students receive full-tuition scholarships, most receive nothing or pittance)

NYU offers an excellent education in an exciting city. The school's reputation and the work of the various counselors and career services administrators open many employment opportunities unavailable at lower-ranked schools. If you are sure you want to practice law, it's a great place to get the degree to do so.

Yes

The professors, students, organizations are all top notch. Very intellectually stimulating environment.

I don't like finals but hey, nobody does. Also, while most of the professors are great there are definitely a few duds that don't know how to teach and that becomes a problem when it comes to exams.

You really can't go wrong coming to this school, but it is extremely expensive to attend law school in the city so hopefully you have a scholarship coming in.

Yes

There are a lot of opportunities to take practical classes, like clinics and litigation simulations. All of my first year classes employed the Socratic method. There is not much (if any) academic advising, and class sizes can border on enormous (100+ people). Our faculty is top-notch--we often steal faculty from CLS and HLS.

The dorms are overpriced--I had one bedroom in a nasty 3 bedroom apartment last year in Mercer and I am paying 200 dollars less a semester for a one bedroom in the East Village. However, apparently a lot of the apartments are being renovated AND the law school finally got with the program and offered one month free for next year, so it's much more on par with the rental market.

2

2011

The classes are, for the most part, excellent. The lawyering program for 1L's is really great and something that makes NYU stand apart from traditional research and writing programs at other schools. The professors are mostly very approachable and genuinely want to see students succeed.

2

2011

Lecture classes are large -- nearly 100 people. They're some range from everyone's-on-call to panel system where you're in a group of 3 or 20 people on-call. There are also tons of seminars after your first year for people who don't like lecture classes. There is very little competitiveness -- obviously NYU grades on a curve, but you don't feel the pressure from other people who won't share notes, info, etc.

NYU and the surrounding area is very expensive to live -- but it's NYC so that shouldn't be a shock for anyone. It feels very safe in the area. There are hundreds of great cheap takeout spots and as many fancy expensive restaurants. The facilities at school are very nice, and NYU generally makes it easy on students to not have to worry about things like printing quotas or the like.

Nothing unique -- typical personal statement, LSAT, etc. If you applied for special merit scholarships, then there was an extra essay (and if you got lucky and were a finalist, then an interview day).

2

2011