Great fun, some ballers in the faculty, good reputation. I transferred from Duke partly because I hated Durham. However, I will say that being a big fish in a small pond has its perks, and that profs at Duke were more engaged, maybe because they were less famous.

Alumni

I chose NYU over Harvard for a lot of reasons, but if I’m honest I really don’t think the quality of the faculty is quite the same. I also think a lot of the students are a lot less motivated, which brings the level of the discussion down a bit. On the other hand, people are a lot more pleasant and less competitive, and more willing to work together. Study groups were very congenial, and I never saw anyone rejected from a study group because they weren’t smart enough or engaged enough. I was at the top of my class, and studied with some students who were near the bottom, and I felt like we all contributed something — there’s something to be said for learning through teaching. Basically I just studied with people I liked as human beings. People shared their outlines freely and no one talked about their grades. There were very few gunners and they were shunned (though again, I think that lowered the level of the discourse). It was nice not to have to listen to people ask, as they do every year at Harvard in 1L contracts class, why someone on welfare is buying a tv and a stereo on credit (when you get to IL year, you’ll know what I’m talking about). Also, New York is a thousand times more livable and pleasant and vibrant than Boston, and I say that having grown up in the Boston area. Cambridge is not bad, but I absolutely loved New York. In all, I think I enjoyed my experience a lot more at NYU than I would have at Harvard, but I might have gotten more out of Harvard and certainly having Harvard on the resume would be an advantage forever, whereas who knows how long the NYU brand will last. And outside of the legal field, no one knows NYU is one of the top 5 law schools in the country (boy, were my parents pissed when I turned down Harvard for NYU!). Harvard also offers more clerkship opportunities (though NYU has way better clinical opportunities, and opens more doors in the public service sector, I think.) If I had to do it over again, I’d suck up the 3 years of unpleasantness for all of the benefits that Harvard offers over NYU.

Alumni

NYU has a great tax program, especially LLM-focused classes, which it’s known for. But the quality of my non-tax professors was also outstanding.

Alumni

One of the best places to go for public interest work because of its loan assistance repayment program, public interest summer stipends, and focus on public interest career searches and development . The faculty is extremely left-leaning and anyone who does not wholeheartedly subscribe to far left politics may feel marginalized.

Alumni

Pretty awesome place. Amazing location, great professors, tons of great events.

Alumni

Superb career counseling for those looking to serve the public interest

Alumni

Best law school in manhattan. Period.

Alumni

New York (the city) is not for everyone. But for those that love it, it really is the most incredible place you can be for law school. The truth is that you have plenty of time to explore the city and enjoy yourself in law school. As for the law school experience, I found NYU to be every bit as challenging and intellectually stimulating as I expected, and its students as engaging, friendly, and accomplished as I could have hoped for. Overall, I could not imagine anyone having a better law school experience. In fact, I would say that my years during law school are still the best years of my life.

Alumni

Jobs are easy to come by; so are drinking buddies.

Law schools don’t teach practice of law. You can only learn to practice law by doing it. Law schools just determine how good a job you get once you finish. NYU gets you in the door everywhere.

Alumni

Its what you make it, do not rely on the name itself.

Alumni

I loved my experience about NYU, but once they have you as a positive for their statistics, the help you receive diminishes immensely. I thought the campus was extremely social and not crazy competitive and the course work was generally top notch. I don’t think NYU had particularly poor practical training compared to any other law school, just law school doesn’t teach practical things well generally.

Alumni

Take as many clinics as you can. Pay attention in lawyering. Volunteer for student groups that get you actual experience. You will be thankful once you actually start working as a lawyer.

Alumni

Professors are wooed away from the handful of higher-ranked schools with truly luxurious Manhattan real estate. It’s rather obscene, and contributes to an atmosphere that pervades every law school, in which professors don’t care about teaching and often lack any pedagogical training or talent. While NYU is obviously better situated than most law schools, there’s still a sense among students that we’re getting fleeced.

Alumni