Ultimate guide to law schools / Anne McGrath and the staff of U.S. News & World Report.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGrath, Anne, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law schools--United States--Directories.

Law schools.

United States.

Genre:

Directories.

Physical Description:

viii, 497 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

U.S. news & world report ultimate guide to law schools

U.S. news and world report ultimate guide to law schools

Place of Publication:

Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, [2006]

Summary:

U.S. News Ultimate Guide to Law Schools combines expert advice on how to get into law school, U.S. News' exclusive indices and data on all the law-school programs in the U.S.

Building on the tremendous reputation of U.S.News & World Report for news and information gathering and an ability to gather and interpret exclusive data on colleges and universities, this book gives potential law-school students the information they need to make wise decisions about their future.

This step-by-step guide includes: -- How to choose the right program

-- A look inside the country's top five law schools

-- Putting together the application, test scores, essays and recommendations that will get you in

-- How to pay for it all

-- Complete profiles of every U.S. law school, with information on cost and financial aid, LSAT scores and grade point averages of students, special programs, job placement and bar passage rates

Plus, exclusive U.S. News indices help you compare schools.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Choosing the Right Law School 1

Chapter 2 Inside America's Top Law Schools 15

Chapter 3 What Law Schools Will Look For in You 27

Chapter 4 The Application 37

Chapter 5 Finding the Money 51

Chapter 6 Getting Your First Job 63

The U.S. News Insider's Index: How Do the Schools Stack Up? 73

What are the hardest and easiest law schools to get into? 75

What are the largest and smallest law schools? 79

What are the most and least diverse law schools? 83

Who's the priciest? Who's the cheapest? 87

What schools award the most and the least financial aid? 91

Whose graduates have the most debt? The least? 95

Whose students are the most and least likely to drop out? 99

What schools have the best first-time bar passage rate? 103

Whose graduates are the most and least likely to land a job? 107

Whose graduates earn the most? The least? 109

Where do graduates work? 113

The U.S. News & World Report Ultimate Law School Directory 117

How to Use the Directory 118.

Notes:

Includes index.

At head of title: U.S. news & world report.

ISBN:

1402207042

OCLC:

70345590

Publisher Number:

9781402207044