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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get your enthusiasm for Liberty, but I share some of the PPs reservations.  So I just recommend that you go into LU with eyes wide open.

The two young adults who I know well with degrees from Liberty have had a **very** difficult time building their careers and have found the Liberty degree an explicit hindrance.

If you were to pursue LU, I think you should do so knowing that it will limit your career options and that you'll need to be prepared to hustle or make compromises more than students coming out of other universities might have to.  If your career plans are to work in conservative politics (after law school), then you probably don't need to worry.  (Likewise if you were looking to go into evangelical Christian ministry, but that doesn't seem to be the case.)

The debate program at LU is strong and presumably has a good alumni network, so you would need to plan on debating all four years and really making that your community and developing those connections.

But I also think you'd be well-served to broaden your list a bit.  There are other excellent schools that provide a conservative Christian foundation but don't come with the stigma of LU.  SMU is a good example, but think also about Wheaton College (IL), Houghton College, Seattle Pacific University, Calvin College, George Fox University, Pepperdine University, etc. Some of the Christian LACs provide a really solid education, framed with conservative Christian values, that will serve you well in law school and beyond.[/quote]

It is just plain weird that George Fox University is conservative Christian.  George Fox was the founder of the Quakers, and normal Quaker schools are the absolute most liberal.[/quote]

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