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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 better the student's academic performance, the more and relatively better professional opportunities will be potentially available upon graduation.

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I would agree with this. [b]The GMU Law grads are not going to the large prestigious DC firms or the sought-after fed govt jobs. [/b]They are working at the local Virginia firms. It is going to be a lot more important to do well in law school at GMU as opposed to a higher ranked school. I taught at GMU for a little bit. The top students were quite good, but then there was a big drop-off. The bottom of the class were not impressive. [/quote]

Utterly false.  Last year 53 went to law firms, several to ovre 500+ lawyrs.  over 30 went on to clerk[/quote]

I stand by my point. Big difference between “several” to big law at GMU vs majority of the class at a top 10. Big difference between state and federal clerkships.

Of course a few from GMU can attain this but just the very top of the class. At the top law schools, nearly all who want it can. [/quote]

Other kids don't matter to your kid's success. Obviously schools with higher entrance criteria get more high outcomes. For any single kid, that doesn't matter. [/quote]

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