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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Because A. it is more prestigious, which will help if they don't want to go to law school and it will also help a bit if they do want to go to law school at the few schools that care about undergrad prestige, e.g. Yale and Stanford. B. The quality of the undergrad students is going to be a bit higher than at Georgetown simply by virtue of the greater selectivity and "prestige," which is helpful in making connections and just growing as a person. What I've seen at law school is that the students who went to better undergrads tend to do better on average. C. Greater undergrad prestige generally helps with things like clerkships D. despite all of these professional advantages, Vanderbilt also has the reputation of being fun compared to Georgetown, which I hear has very little school spirit if that matters. E. Being a "double 'dore", meaning going to Vandy law after Vandy undergrad, is a pretty good option for law school as Vanderbilt law is comparable to georgetown Law and vanderbilt law generally gives more generous scholarships to "double 'dores". Vanderbilt law seems to do quite well in clerkships and biglaw[/quote]

NP.  Is this post a joke? Vandy is not more prestigious than Gtown. Ask 100 people which school is more prestigious and all of them who don’t live in the south will pick Gtown. Georgetown students are definitely of AT LEAST equal quality to those at Vandy - and many would argue of higher quality - since the Gtown applicant pool is a self-selecting higher stats group due to the fact that Gtown does not use the common app and requires test scores. Gtown would shoot up any rankings list if they changed these two factors, since they would exponentially increase applications immediately.

Add to that the fact that Vandy law school has never been ranked in the T14, while Gtown is a T14 regular.  BigLaw in major east cities almost all interview at Gtown and all hire from there, which is not true of Vandy.[/quote]

I agree that Georgetown has outsized lay prestige compared to Vanderbilt. Among more educated circles, which are more relevant, Vanderbilt has the edge in undergrad prestige. You'll notice the average test scores at Vanderbilt undergrad are consistently higher than those at Georgetown, which is more of a peer with Emory and NYU. Again they are both great schools, but Vanderbilt is more comparable to Cornell or Dartmouth.

With regard to georgetown vs vanderbilt law, I would guess most of my colleagues would call these comparable schools. Maybe practitioners perceive some large difference between them but my experience is that the average student from them is pretty interchangeable. Certainly the top student at gulc is generally far more impressive than the top student at Vanderbilt law simply because they are 1/600 compared to 1/150, meaning they are in a higher percentile technically speaking. [/quote]

and vanderbilt had higher act and sat scores prior to becoming test optional, which I see they did recently[/quote]
I believe NYU has just as high if not higher test score than Vandy. Y
So.e of you are creating tiers based on USnews and USnews rankings are about to change dramatically.  [/quote]

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