GMU Law Stats!!
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Anonymous
| DH attended GMU law 99-03 instead of GW or Catholic because it was cheap (in-state tuition), convenient--we lived in S Arlington, and he was able to attend part time while working as a patent agent. I would guess that many current students choose it for similar reasons. |
Anonymous
71% also are from out of state - that also is unexpected. So only 29% qualified for in-state - very odd. |
Anonymous
[/b] dumb comment. You do know why it's there, right? |
Anonymous
No, it isn't. Average age for law school entry is 24-25 in the US. If you are used to the Harvards of the world, then, yes, those students are older, having taken time off for advanced degrees, etc. |
Anonymous
+1. And utter nonsense. There are students at GMU of all political stripes. |
Anonymous
It isn't unexpected. Think. GMU has done an astonishing job of rising from an unaccredited law school (when I first came to D.C.) to now ranked 31 in the nation. How does a school do that? By focusing on what USNWR values, which means, in part, the GPA and test scores of incoming students. How do you do that? You throw scholarships at kids with high scores and GPAs. My own DD was offered full tuition for this fall at Scalia because they wanted those scores and her postgrad degrees at Oxbridge as bragging rights. (she turned it down for full-freight at Harvard). The point is that the school is trying to make it to T25. To do this, it must try to entroll those students with the stats that USNWR wants. In order to obtain such high scores, GMU/Scalia has to turn to OOS students because the best in-state students go to UVA, William & Mary Law, or, as in the case of my daughter, private. |
Anonymous
+2 Only in DCUM-land would posters paint a school like GMU Law as being somehow in thrall to Donald Trump, simply because it's not a heavily far-left leaning school like most. How refreshing to have some diversity of thought! |
Anonymous
Not true for the professors. It’s a conservative / stridently libertarian bunch. |
Anonymous
| There’s been massive LSAT and GPA inflation so all schools look a lot better than they used to. |
Anonymous
+3 The lefty loons on this page do not understand that there is a huge divergence of thought on the right. The moment they hear "conservative," "moderate," "right," they think MAGA Trump, and that is simply not the case. They even get the Koch brothers wrong (one died in 2019) AND they are LIBERTARIAN, not conservative and not MAGA. GMU Law caters to students of all beliefs. It DOES offer the rare opportunity for seminars by Supreme Court Justices and top DC Court of appeals judges .... I didn't even get that at Harvard. There is no MAGA tooting at Scalia Law. I doubt Scalia (whom I knew) would have been Maga. There are many conservatives who consider themselves classical liberals or Madisonian conservatives meaning they simply believe inreturning power to the states and getting rid of an imperial presidency, which is what we have now. |
Anonymous
| The ASS! |
Anonymous
Any law school named after SCALIA is not a neutral place. Please. And just take a look at their student orgs to get a feel for the culture. |
Anonymous
The LSAT got harder. They removed logic games which was the part you could really prep for. |
Anonymous
Bull$hit. They simply aren't stridently liberal. I'll take someone who is slightly right of center any day. |
Anonymous
Scalia was a brilliant jurist, and I'd be proud to attend a law school named for him. I can't think of one recent SCJ who even comes close to his intellect. |