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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Bethesda in the 1980s, and I went to private school in DC. I never heard of JMU until some of my HS friends did t get into UVA and had to go there. 
I hadn't heard of Christopher Newport until very recently. I would consider it a massive fail if my child went there. 
I've luved in Arlington for the past 15 years. [/quote]

The CNU grad I know is currently a 3L at a top ten law school and has a federal district court clerkship and post-clerkship job offer at a well-known firm lined up for when he graduates. His parents must be devastated .[/quote]

so CNU students generally do well in law school admissions? what % go to top 10 law schools each year? [/quote]

I don't know where this misguided notion comes from that going to a regional school means that you cannot get into good law programs (or any other top tier graduate program).  The name recognition of rigorous, prestigious schools may help (especially if the GPA is on the lower end), but in general to get into law school you need to have good grades, a high LSAT score and, to a lesser extent, strong letters of recommendation, a well written personal statement, and perhaps some compelling internship or work experience.

There might be more students at someplace like CNU who struggle to get a good LSAT score, because overall the SAT scores are weaker than, say, UVA and standardized exam scores tend to correlate with one another.  But honestly, that might not be the situation for your kid.  Say you have a child who gets good SAT scores, but only graduates in the top half of their class (because they go to a competitive, pressure cooker high school in Northern Virginia where there's a lot of smart kids from highly educated families). And say, for financial reasons, you decide to pursue in state options.  They are not going to get into UVA or William and Mary.  But who is to say that they won't thrive being a very well prepared fish in a smaller pond?

FWIW, if you look at the schools that the current Harvard Law 1L attended for undergrad, you'll see a number of schools that DCUM would consider "dissappointing"
[url]http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/undergraduate-colleges/[/url] including several satellite campus of state schools and the previously disparaged on this thread SUNY-Binghamton.[/quote]

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