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The percentage of students who left school, for any reason, after the first year.
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Total students starting law school in a single academic year, whether they start in the winter, spring, summer, or fall, or attend class part time or full time.
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The percentage of applicants during an admissions cycle who received an offer to attend the school, including those accepted off of the waitlist.
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Based on your LSAT, GPA, and demographics, how likely are you to get admitted to the school? Note, this does not take into consideration individual aspects of your application such as character...
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Refers to the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles for all enrollees included in the admissions dataset.
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The percentage of graduates who passed the bar exam, which states typically require for a law license and thus the practice of law. For law schools, bar pass rates are measured among...
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Includes jobs as an attorneys or as judicial clerks. Except for clerks, these jobs anticipate or require that you pass the bar and be licensed to practice law. This category sweeps judicial...
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Any financial aid award, the retention of which is dependent upon the student maintaining a minimum grade point average or class standing, other than that ordinarily required to remain in good academic...
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The cost of living figure usually reflects 9 or 10 months of living expenses and includes all non-tuition related expenses, such as transportation, books, housing, food, etc.
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Measures your ability to manage your monthly payments, i.e. to repay the money you plan to borrow. Debt service is calculated by dividing your monthly payment into your monthly income. A payment...
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The interest rate for your first $20,500 of Direct Student Loans, originated by the U.S. Department of Education. The rate is calculated each year using the treasury rate plus 3.6%. This rate...
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The interest rate for your student loans originated by the U.S. Department of Education in excess of $20,500 each year. The rate is calculated each year using the treasury rate plus 4.6%...
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JOB CHARACTERISTICS MATRIX The job type, employer type, and school-funded job traunches are divisible into a four-part matrix. LONG TERM (LT) SHORT TERM (ST) FULL TIME (FT) PART TIME (PT) LONG TERM...
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All graduates either have a known employment status or an unknown employment status. There are three kinds of known employment statuses: employed, unemployed, and advanced degree. Unknown employment status means that the...
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Full-time jobs are at least 35 hours per week. Sometimes abbreviated as FT. Part-time jobs are fewer than 35 hours per week. Sometimes abbreviated as PT.
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The ABA collects and reports gender data in three categories: men, women, and other. The other category includes non-binary and not reporting.
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You may have many GPAs to your name: undergraduate, degree, masters, PhD, etc. However, only your CAS GPA, calculated by LSAC, truly matters for law school admission. That’s the GPA that schools...
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The Graduate Record Examination, or GRE, is a standardized test administered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) for prospective graduate school candidates. It's designed to assess verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, analytical writing...
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Includes jobs as paralegals, law school admissions officers, and a host of other jobs such as consultants, bank examiners, and contracts administrators. A graduate falls into this category when the employer sought...
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