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Choosing Law Schools

Finding the Right Fit

Ranking and cost are not the only factors in selecting the schools to which you apply.  Consider the following points:

• Is a school strong in the areas of law which interest you?
• Does it have non-academic organizations addressing issues that are important to you?
• Is a school friendly to ethnic and racial "minorities," or students from LGBT communities?
• How many of its graduates pass their bar examinations?
• The Equal Justice Works Guide to Law Schools

The ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools

The Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools is available at www.LSAC.org. This is an invaluable research tool for anyone interested in law school. The Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools can help you select schools based on a variety of factors including GPA and LSAT scores; tuition and fees, housing, enrollment and ethnicity; curriculum, living expenses, library resources; grants and scholarships; J.D. attrition, employment, and bar passage rates. The guide also contains details on taking and preparing for the LSAT, choosing a law school, completing your law school applications, and professional options.

Create Your Own Law School Rankings

Most pre-law advisors and law school admissions counselors recommend that you decide which school is "right" for you by considering a number of factors, giving each factor the weight appropriate to your values and goals.

Make a checklist of what is important to you and apply a point system to rank each factor. You can find suggestions below:

• class size
• academic challenge
• quality of teaching
• specializations
• diversity of students and faculty
• religious or secular-based
• job placement rates (private practice, non-profit, judicial clerkships, etc.)
• affordability; scholarships; loan forgiveness programs
• location and quality of life
• library technology and facilities
• clinics, internships, and externships [read more]
• study abroad opportunities

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