Picking a law school

DO NOT pick your school based on the US News and World Report rankings. First, because rankings are crap. Second, because a FAR better criterion is geography. Location, location, location. If you go to the "best" school you get in to and that school is in an region with a climate that could most charitably be described as sadistic, YOU WILL DESERVE EVERY GRAY DAY YOU SEE AND THERE WILL BE MANY. You will be cold. You will look around and realize that your law school is, in fact, at the foot of Mount Doom, smack in the middle of Mordor. See that sunny area to the south? That's the undergrad campus. Remember those days, when the world was bright and full of possibilities? HA. The one and only (small) consolation we get is kicking the children out of OUR library. And they won't even let us use pitchforks :(