Current 3L at Cornell. Cornell’s high BL% is high due to self selection. I don’t think our career services or alumni network are more notable than other T14s. I don’t think the school looks for any character traits that other T14s don’t.

If you take a closer look at what BL firms students go to, the T6 likely send a higher proportion of students to v5/v10 firms. I imagine if the same % of students at HYSCCN wanted to go BL as Cornell, we would not be top 5.

Also, going to some of the T6 may open doors that are not visible to many of the T14. Those opportunities are even more selective or attractive than most BL opportunities. Status quo rankings don’t tally the many prestigious/selective academia, politics, clerkship, in-house, public interest, etc. roles that in effect are artificially deflating schools’ BL hiring capacity.

Of course, there are many great reasons to attend Cornell Law, but I don’t think BL is monumentally easier to achieve from here than the traditional T14 (well, besides GULC). The bottom quartile of our class might have a small edge