University of Pennsylvania

Definitely a hefty investment but worth the cost in the end. Career Services is immensely helpful at securing you summer jobs and permanent employment after graduation.

Pros: affordable city, nice campus Cons: lack of meaningful career support, particularly for people who don't have contacts at law firms or don't want to work at law firms

Penn Law is a wonderful place to be in school. Its reputation and faculty are both top-notch, and career services supports you throughout your entire time in law school. Philadelphia is a great city to be in.

The program was incredibly intense, and career support was only geared towards students who wanted to work at big law firms.

Pros: this is not your average northern ivy league law school where people are competitive and cold. Collegiality here is REAL. The school operates as a family and there are always fun celebrations going on. Cons: the 1L classes focus too much on theory and less about practical black-letter law; registering is still in the stone age where you have to go in personally and confirm spots on waitlist. You won't get all the classes that you want, which is annoying for the tuition costs.

This is the best program that I could have imagined.

Extremely friendly student body, excellent support for public interest students via the Toll Public Interest Center.

Pros: faculty, staff and professors are incredibly supportive and available to students Cons: there are no real cons except that financial aid is not particularly great. also, this is not particular to Penn Law but law school generally can be very challenging on some days;