UVA law or Georgetown?
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Anonymous
| UVA is a better school. |
Anonymous
| Georgetown is a top school on the rise, in a highly relevant city for the practice of law. If you can get in, go. |
Anonymous
| I hope you like softball. |
Anonymous
+1. I graduated from UVA Law roughly 15 years ago, and I’m still close with a bunch of my classmates. We’ve helped each other with job opportunities, we’ve sent business to each other, and even with the people I’m not as close to it’s still a fantastic professional network. But I wouldn’t commute there from DC, that’s just looney toons. |
Anonymous
| Uva any day |
Anonymous
+2 The social aspect is great, both during and after. It's a friendly and not competitive vibe, and this last can differ from some other top law schools. Most of my good friends are from UVA Law, and my husband. The commuting idea is a bad one though. If you want to be even average in your class, you'll have to study and you don't want to give away hours of study time to commuting. The Georgetown poster makes some good points too. |
Anonymous
| UVA has a better law school than GU. At GU it’s more about connections. It depends what type of law your interested in. |
Anonymous
I beg to differ. So does Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University_Law_Center “From 1996 to 2017, Georgetown Law held an average rank of 13.82 on the U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking, making it one of the 14 law schools that consistently place at the top[11] since the magazine began the rankings in 1987.[12] Georgetown's part-time J.D. program is consistently ranked #1. The school is also ranked #1 in clinical programs, #2 in tax law, #3 in international law, #5 in trial advocacy, #8 in legal writing, #9 in healthcare law, and #11 in environmental law.[16] Georgetown Law was ranked 5th in the 2010 Super Lawyers ranking, which measures the number of graduates from each law school who are voted Super Lawyers.[17] In an exclusive study conducted by The National Jurist in 2011, Georgetown Law ranked #2 in terms of the total number of partners at the nation's largest law firms.[18] In December 2014, Business Insider ranked Georgetown as the 7th best law school in the U.S.[19] In a recent law school ranking by law professor Brian Leiter, Georgetown Law ranked within the top ten law schools in selectivity, student quality, and Supreme Court clerkship placements respectively.[20][21] Professor Leiter ranked Georgetown Law #9 among U.S. law schools with respect to the total number of students who secured clerkships with the United States Supreme Court between 2003-2013.[22] The Hotung International Law Building and fitness center at the Georgetown Law campus. The 2018 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked Georgetown Law as the #6 best law school in the world.[23] According to the 2019 QS World University Rankings, Georgetown Law is the 8th best law school in the U.S. and 17th best in the world.[24] In the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Georgetown Law was ranked 12th in the U.S. and 26th in the world.[25] Georgetown Law receives the most J.D. applications of any law school in the United States.[26] Georgetown Law was also ranked #1 in a 2019 revealed preferences ranking of law schools where students choose to matriculate.[27]“ That last bit tells you all you need to know. |
Anonymous
| I wouldn't rely on wiki for intel to make an informed decision. There are likely many more PT law students at GU Law than at UVA, thus the high number of applicants. Before you decide, make sure you actually get in. Good luck. |
Anonymous
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Georgetown has some of the best clinical programs in the country if that’s important to you. It’s also one of the largest schools, which can be good or bad (lots of course offerings, and they attract great adjuncts who are practicing lawyers— in the past you could take environmental law from DOJ’s chief environmental lawyer, for example).
If you want to live in DC during and after law school definitely Georgetown. |
Anonymous
I am curious. I didn't do law. I did engineering and MBA, so I can understand world rankings of engineering schools and MBA schools. How can you compare law schools and rank them from different countries when each country differs in its laws? |
Anonymous
| Georgetown is good, but UVA is considered a better law school. |
Anonymous
+1 to this. Also Gtown Law is huge and filled with all the ppl trying to break in on the hill. Its almost too dc to be effective. |
Anonymous
+1 You can’t live in dc and attend school in Charlottesville. |
Anonymous
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UVA is NOT a “better law school” thank Georgetown. It is ranked more highly by US News, true- but USN notoriously uses a methodology this ppat makes it almost impossible for larger schools with smaller endowments to move up in the rankings. Look at the internal numbers. Georgetown has better students and they get better jobs. Look at rankings other than USN, which focus more on faculty quality and employment.
And read this. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3353256 There is a reason more students choose Georgetown over other schools. |