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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crazy high stats for a law school ranked #31

Does this sky-high GPA median point to how inflated college grades were during COVID and still are?

[b]JD Entering Class Profile
116 JD students from 32 states, Washington, D.C., and 85 colleges and universities
[b]71% from outside Virginia[/b]
Median LSAT: 168
Median UGPA: 3.92, up from 3.89 last year
31% diversity
14.63% selectivity
Average age: 24[/b][/quote]An average age of 24 is super young, especially if it's including the part time students who tend to be older and working already.  That really doesn't seem like it could be correct....[/quote]

[b]71% also are from out of state - that also is unexpected[/b].  So only 29% qualified for in-state - very odd. [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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