I have decided I prefer Chicago to NYU for geographic reasons, otherwise Chicago is my first choice of the top few schools. That’s mostly because it’s in a good location and one of the best schools, though–I don’t know enough to evaluate the reputations of any professors or tell what places are likely to be sympathetic to my laissez-faire persuasions.

Hopefully admission won’t be an issue (my relevant numbers, at least, are good); cost probably won’t be if I’m willing to subject myself to loans too big for me to comprehend…

If you’re considering not going to the best law school you get into, ask the law school you’re considering most seriously to introduce you to students who made the same choice. It was a lot easier for me to turn down Texas’s offer of a full scholarship when they couldn’t show me a single student in their law school who had turned down Harvard or Yale to go there.

Question for Walter & Ted:

I’m considering law schools right now to attend Fall ’08. Assuming getting admitted isn’t an issue, do you have any particular recommendations off the top of your heads?

My top choices right now are Chicago and Northwestern, in that order.