Another Brilliant TLSer

Okay, so remember how a few weeks ago I discussed the greatness that is the Law School Status Checker that the genius known as shatra designed? Well, another genius TLSer strikes again. Seriously, some of these people should reevaluate their law school ambitions and maybe look into computer programming.

This time it's aliarrow who is making your life as a law school applicant a little easier, although later in the application process.

A lot of people have a much more difficult time than I did picking which law school to attend...and mine was no cake walk! Sometimes you really can't decide between two great options, or are considering so many schools or factors that you just confuse yourself even more. That's where aliarrow's genius comes in.

Aliarrow has combine a bunch of different factors -- cost, location, prestige, ranking, job placement, etc. -- into a great website called Law School Picker that will help make your law school choice for you, taking into account the value you place on each individual factor. Basically, this website takes all of the TLS advice you can get on the different schools you're considering and condenses it into a decision generator!

First you tell the website which regions you desire to practice in, and rate each desired location. Then you tell the website which sector you wish to be employed in (biglaw, govt, etc.) and rate each of those desired sectors. Next you rate the importance of different factors to you: geographic placement, employment, cost, and prestige. Last, you tell the website which schools you are considering, and how much scholarship money you got at each institution (note: don't put a comma in the number! it messes it up).

Then you click "Submit" and VOILA! A detailed analysis of where you should attend and why pops up on the next page. It breaks down all of the categories you said were important to you and generates a raw score for each school, graded on the same scale, so you can see how they stack up mathematically.

Law School Picker is brilliant, whether you're seriously having a difficult time making a decision, or if you're just looking for some validation that you picked the right school for you. It gives you the index scores of all of the schools you're considering, and how they rank on the different factors that you've indicated are important to you.

It told me that I made the right choice in choosing SMU. :)

So check it out, and then log onto TLS and leave aliarrow some love on the TLS thread about the website.

Anyone get some interesting (good or otherwise) results from the site? Leave me a comment to let me know what you think!