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[quote=Anonymous]Don't listen to DCUM and this "top law school or bust" stuff -- especially since they don't even really understand what a top law school is. Lots of folks who aren't lawyers playing one on DCUM and giving advice that is just downright incorrect. And some of that is already showing up here.

I went to law school at what I consider to be a pretty great school and people are impressed when they hear it -- it was founded in the 19th century and we had plenty of folks head to BigLaw in NYC and DC and federal clerkships al over, including Circuit Court clerkships. I landed at DOJ in the Honors Program. GMU is ranked ahead of my school (although when I went to ls, it didn't).

Your DD would do well to attend GMU, especially  with in state tuition -- I can't tell you how many people struggle financially with their law school loans for years and years. And going to school with the intention of working in BigLaw where you can make enough to pay them off relatively easily isn't a plan -- most aren't able to get those jobs, and some people like me who could decide to go DOJ or public interest instead.

Just tell her that law review is a big deal and she should do everything she can to grade onto it, and if she doesn't (which she probably won't), do the write-on competition. Then she should consider clerking for a judge after graduation, preferable fed (and the DC area has some specialty courts to consider as well if she has certain interests like the Tax Court and the Court of Fed Claims). Appellate if she can get it.

She could do pretty much anything she wants with law review + fed clerkship. [/quote]

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