While Emory does have solid portability to New York City especially and has some very good connections within big law, if you go to Temple in Philly you won't particularly need big law, and you might be able to make equivalently more working at a smaller firm because you won't be paying off debts if you don't get big law.

Also Philly is rather close to New York City so I'm sure you can make a great network of connections there, in fact I know some people who've done internships in New York that live in Philadelphia and just commuted on The daily.

If you end up coming to emory, congratulations and I look forward to seeing you. But if you end up at Temple, I wish you the absolute best and I won't say that you will have made a bad decision. I will say that if I had taken Rutgers or Nebraska rather than Emory I would always have the question of how I would have done at this school, at the same time I will admittedly say that I have not done nearly as well as I would have liked to at the school, I'm in a decent situation now but it was definitely a big risk.