lawstudent36 (2016-2017)

GMU is supposedly on a financial aid spree in the name of improving rankings but it's literally $150 cheaper a year compared to William & Mary (not factoring in cost of living), which is not nearly as exciting as what they were advertising. It would be insane to choose them over W&M, unless you really wanted to live outside of DC.

Congrats! Your stats are very similar to mine. Though many of your acceptances don't seem "right" given the stats. Like you'd fall into the 25th percentile on most of them. What do you think got you some great acceptances w/ stats slightly below their averages (specifically Emoy, Wake Forest, WnL, UC-I, and GW)?

If you're still checking this thing - did you negotiate up any of the schools? Where did you end up attending?

Hey Meelo and lowrancc, Very sorry, I had not logged into LSN after since the summer before 1L. Just returned today to help my brother find schools and saw your comments. Negotiating: I got more money from Wake (cheap to full ride), W&L (5k a year to 2.5K a year I believe), And GMU (cheap to full ride). I dont remember the exact numbers Batting above my league: Yes, Im on the low end, but 1) I went to a really well known undergrad that admissions people have fond feelings about based on talking to them 2) I was a physics major and from talking to admissions people they understood such majors have lower GPAs 3) admissions people have also explained to me that LSAT >>>> GPA, so being 25th pecentile for GPA matters more than LSAT Im at GW, because I was really into patent law and DC living in your twenties is great, if I could do it over again, I dont know what I would do.

Living in DC has been awesome legal education wise. And the GW law student body community is second to none. But I occasionally agonize about whether I should have gone to Wake or GMU, and saved $$$. W&L and W&M were great but not my speed based on visiting them.