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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD  was offered a full tuition scholarship at GMU/Scalia Law but nowhere else. GMU is now ranked 31. She has two Oxbridge degrees, great college GPA-and a 175. White. She picked a T4 (no merit) with our blessings. But her friends with weaker LSATs and record had to drop down to T4Os to pick up half or full tuition scholarships.[/quote]

Mine with a 174 and Phi Beta Kappa got nearly a full ride to a top 20 [b]but was rejected or WL at all  6 T13 they applied to. [/b]

You just don’t know what they’re looking for. It’s become more like undergrad and the right stats are not enough anymore.

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FWIW, the admissions offices seem to communicate and waitlist any law applicant who might go elsewhere because that upsets the school’s yield numbers. Chicago and Georgetown are notorious for this. If they don’t communicate then they have an elaborate algorithm for estimating the chance that the student, if accepted, will go elsewhere, thus upsetting the yield statistics (did Dad go to YLS? Did someone in the immediate family teach at Stanford Law? etc.). The consultant we used thinks they communicate but he can’t prove it.[/quote]

Thanks. It was surprising. I assumed it was that they were fresh out of undergrad and weren’t convinced they were dedicated to the profession.  It worked out.  Kid is graduating with zero debt and got a job with a top firm. But it makes me always want to warn parents and kids that having the right stats is not enough anymore. [/quote]

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