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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is all related to your child's professional ambitions.  Law encompasses many types of opportunities, and some require certain academic credentials while others do not.

GMU is not a top-tier law school, the type largely required for students who would like to have federal clerkships, want to work for very large and prestigious law firms, who want to work for the DOJ, or in-house in large companies, or who want to be law professors.  It is fine for students who want to aim for employment at smaller firms, in local or state government, or for "law-adjacent" roles such as in law enforcement, where graduation from a top law school is not a prerequisite for consideration.

Of course, even at a mid-level institution, the[b] better the student's academic performance, the more and relatively better professional opportunities will be potentially available upon graduation. [/b]

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This is key to understand. Law schools normally grade on a curve, [b]which can be more severe at lower-ranking schools. [/b]Many lower-ranking schools entice high LSAT/GPA students with scholarships that have a GPA requirement. Thus, even at lower ranking schools, it may not be so easy to finish near the top of your class. Finishing in the middle of the pack or lower at a lower-ranking school may mean that you are never able to find a job as a practicing lawyer - or at least it may take you many years to network into one. [/quote]

T[b]he curve tends to be less severe, or even nonexistent at lower tiered schools. [/quote][/b]

I hav never heard that before.  do you have a cite?  If you mean GMU/Scalia, you need to know that it is now no 28 (way ahead of W&Mary law) and the no. 2 law school in the commonwealth.[/quote]

I don't need a citation -- I've been an attorney, who talks to other attorneys about their law school experience, for over 20 years.

And your reading comprehension is poor -- no I don't "mean GMU/Scalia." I don't consider GMU a lower-tiered school at all given its current rank of 28. Only DCUM fools who know nothing about law school beyond googling "law school tiers" think that. A "lower-tiered school" to me, well today in fact as I deal with a ridiculous alum, is University of Baltimore law school. [/quote]

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