Best Law School for Running

Before signing on to that law school debt, you really must read the Above The Law blog. You might even ask your question there.

counselmethis wrote:

Any advice or insight as to the best (top tier) law school for someone looking for a vibrant running community? (No pacific northwest schools and grades aren't good enough for Nyu/columbia)

Thinking that the following are decent options:

Emory (Atlanta Track Club)

Minnesota - ???

San Diego - SDTC etc.

UT Austin - Town lake

Irvine - Cal Coast TC etc. . .

And I have no clue about

UCLA/USC - seems like you are SOL which sucks as these are top choice schools.

Alabama

Cornell- Ithica (not even sure if you can run in winter)

Vandy

Wash U St. Louis

Georgetown - DC?

It may be slightly convoluted to factor this in to my school choice, but I have decent numbers so should have a lot of options, and running is important to me.

Most of the posters on this board don't quite have it right. They are correct that the legal employment market is the worst employment market in the country right now and will be for decades to come. But this is not necessarily a reason to forego law school. Attorneys can do a lot of good and if you ware willing to be poor for the rest of your life, it might be for you. Let me explain.

None of the schools listed will give you an expected net payoff in the long run unless you have a 200k or more scholly to one of them, which might pay around half the cost of law school all told (that's counting opportunity cost of $25k office job for those three years).

Without a scholly, by all means, go to one of them, but do so only if you are willing to be very poor for the rest of your life. Some would argue that the field of attorneys be much improved if more of them are/were willing to live poor. There is nothing wrong with being poor; you just have to accept it going in to law school.

If you can get into Georgetown there is a great running community in that area with some very solid trails. Georgetown Running Club has a few sub-30 guys, and even has some practicing lawyers if I'm not mistaken.

Berkeley Law School (at Cal) and the Strawberry Canyon Track Club are a good combination for you.

Virginia. Charlottesville has a good running community and great places to go running.

Virginia?

Look into U. Richmond. You could get some coaching from Steve Taylor and run with many of his former runners.

You may also be a part of the Collegiate Running Association

LOL!

Hi sam ;)

If he can't get into Columbia or NYU, then most of the top 10, let alone the top 5, are out of reach.

No Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, U of Penn, U of Chicago, Berkeley, etc.

Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, or Notre Dame might be the way to go. Name recognition trumps ranking when the schools are still tier 1.

This is speaking from experience.