GMU Law Stats!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMU Law - where they teach you to undermine 250 years of legal precedent and pledge blind faith to Donald Trump rather than the constitution of the United States.

Thanks but no thanks.

[phone]

Exactly. Bought and paid for by the evil Koch brothers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMU Law - where they teach you to undermine 250 years of legal precedent and pledge blind faith to Donald Trump rather than the constitution of the United States.

Thanks but no thanks.

[phone]

Exactly. Bought and paid for by the evil Koch brothers.

You people are comical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMU Law - where they teach you to undermine 250 years of legal precedent and pledge blind faith to Donald Trump rather than the constitution of the United States.

Thanks but no thanks.

[phone]

Exactly. Bought and paid for by the evil Koch brothers.

Don't conflate the Koch's with MAGA. That is very simple minded. I don't love the Koch's politics. But they believe in the rule of law, decency, and precedent. They are very charitable people who have donated tens of millions of dollars to good causes that make people's lives better (hospitals, theater, education, etc.).

But they are not nasty, angry, evil people like Trump and his MAGA followers. They do not believe in sensationalistic behavior like Trump. They do not believe in calling people childish names.

Huge difference.

[Anonymous]

Don't understand why its up in ranking when 8 years ago it was like top 70ish. The education is the same, wouldn’t chose it over gwu or american...

[Anonymous]

So much sockpuppeting in this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMU Law - where they teach you to undermine 250 years of legal precedent and pledge blind faith to Donald Trump rather than the constitution of the United States.

Thanks but no thanks.

Oh, spare us all. I bet you have no issue with the LWNJs coming out of Yale Law and Stanford Law, to name just two. You simply want all lawyers to be far left. Get a grip.
NP

TIL Clarence Thomas is LWNJ
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

[Anonymous]

Huh. Didn’t know it was that hard to get in or that highly ranked.

Part-time in-state may not be a bad option financially to reduce loan debt and gain work experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh. Didn’t know it was that hard to get in or that highly ranked.

Part-time in-state may not be a bad option financially to reduce loan debt and gain work experience.

if price is an issue then UDC maybe a good option.

To the main point besides the name and conservative justices lecturing; how does GMU law indoctrinate lawyers to be conservative? I can understand an 18 year old freshman but LSAT has a literal logic test and the reading portion that leans towards critical thinking. Plus according to "How Judges Reason?" a good lawyer simply needs predicts the outcome of a case if it were to go to trial. Politics shouldn't come into play and most of the work is "dull" stuff the general public wouldn't care about.

BTW. GMU Grad here and never thought GMU law was conservative. Just that it took the money and said thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crazy high stats for a law school ranked #31

Does this sky-high GPA median point to how inflated college grades were during COVID and still are?

JD Entering Class Profile
116 JD students from 32 states, Washington, D.C., and 85 colleges and universities
71% from outside Virginia
Median LSAT: 168
Median UGPA: 3.92, up from 3.89 last year
31% diversity
14.63% selectivity
Average age: 24

Does this include those admitted to the flex/part-time/evening program?

My understanding is that schools generally don’t report stats for students admitted to a less than full time program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. Didn’t know it was that hard to get in or that highly ranked.

Part-time in-state may not be a bad option financially to reduce loan debt and gain work experience.

if price is an issue then UDC maybe a good option.

To the main point besides the name and conservative justices lecturing; how does GMU law indoctrinate lawyers to be conservative? I can understand an 18 year old freshman but LSAT has a literal logic test and the reading portion that leans towards critical thinking. Plus according to "How Judges Reason?" a good lawyer simply needs predicts the outcome of a case if it were to go to trial. Politics shouldn't come into play and most of the work is "dull" stuff the general public wouldn't care about.

BTW. GMU Grad here and never thought GMU law was conservative. Just that it took the money and said thanks.

Law school shouldn't be political. And for most of the history of law schools it wasn't. Yes, the majority of grads of top schools likely leaned left, as well as most of the faculty, but the study of law was largely apolitical.

GMU has been branding itself as the alternative to the historically left leaning law schools (again, they don't purposely lean left, but that is how they are perceived and I'm sure there are some examples of them being more welcoming environments for those who lean left). They have cozied up to more conservative judges and outperformed their rank in terms of getting clerkships, primarily by getting them with right leaning judges.

Given the nature of the school, I'm sure there are plenty of non-Republican students there. And I'm guessing that the vast majority of the classes are taught exactly how they are everywhere else, where the law is the law. But your classmates are more likely to lean that way and many hiring firms are well aware of this, for better or worse.

It is sad that this has all been politicized. Again, the Ivy law schools are not without fault - they have not always been welcoming to views that are not in line with the majority, and that is not OK. But GMU has gone pretty far in the opposite direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. Didn’t know it was that hard to get in or that highly ranked.

Part-time in-state may not be a bad option financially to reduce loan debt and gain work experience.

if price is an issue then UDC maybe a good option.

To the main point besides the name and conservative justices lecturing; how does GMU law indoctrinate lawyers to be conservative? I can understand an 18 year old freshman but LSAT has a literal logic test and the reading portion that leans towards critical thinking. Plus according to "How Judges Reason?" a good lawyer simply needs predicts the outcome of a case if it were to go to trial. Politics shouldn't come into play and most of the work is "dull" stuff the general public wouldn't care about.

BTW. GMU Grad here and never thought GMU law was conservative. Just that it took the money and said thanks.

Underrated. If you're brainwashed by a law professor without thinking critically, should you become a lawyer? Most law doesn't involve politics.

[Anonymous]

GMU Law is an excellent school and I would be proud if any of my kids decided to go there.

It's funny how outraged some of you are if a school as even a slightly conservative bent - when the reality is that most law schools have a very noticeable liberal bias. That doesn't seem to concern you at all.

It's refreshing to see a law school that isn't the usual liberal activist mill, like Stanford or Yale.

[Anonymous]

does the law school still have the escalator or nah?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crazy high stats for a law school ranked #31

Does this sky-high GPA median point to how inflated college grades were during COVID and still are?

JD Entering Class Profile
116 JD students from 32 states, Washington, D.C., and 85 colleges and universities
71% from outside Virginia
Median LSAT: 168
Median UGPA: 3.92, up from 3.89 last year
31% diversity
14.63% selectivity
Average age: 24

An average age of 24 is super young, especially if it's including the part time students who tend to be older and working already. That really doesn't seem like it could be correct....

[Anonymous]

It’s a tough admit and a good school but its rep in Biglaw still lags.