GW sticker v IUB full ride Forum

[chooy]

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Thanks all

[BigZuck]

If you're not going to retake then I just wouldn't go to law school, GW at sticker is insane and you don't want to go to Indiana so none of these choices make sense.

[Mikey]

GW at sticker is insane, only around the top 20% are able to get jobs to pay off that kind of debt, and you have no clue if you will be within that top 20%. Have you tried negotiating with GW to at least get SOMETHING out of them?

If you don't plan on living in Indiana, then don't go to IUB. If you do want to be there, then go for it . Even if you have to wait until next year to retake, you can get some work experience which can't harm you in any way.

[Rigo]

Neither. Definitely not GW though.

[Nachoo2019]

Even if you do not want to retake you will have significantly better options if you take the exact application from this March and turn it in October 1st when apps open.

[raven1231]

The idea the IUB grads only get employed in Indiana is horseshit. They place all over the states with only 30% staying in Indiana...

[jeremydc]

Ask for a housing stipend from IUB.

[Roundhill]

GW is an absolute no-go for that Price. Pick Indiana.

[Rigo]

The idea the IUB grads only get employed in Indiana is horseshit. They place all over the states with only 30% staying in Indiana...

It's definitely a regional school.

[Londonbear]

I wanted to stay it depends, and then ask "What do you want to do post-grad?" But then I realized, unless you want to do public interest, then IUB full ride makes sense b/c you won't carry on as much debt and can pursue that afterwards if you're okay with the pay. I'm not sure how they do in the gov. sector, and I'm pretty sure their stats for Biglaw is not great. There is some truth that you're most likely going to be stuck in the region, maybe not specifically in Indiana, but in the close Midwest. I went to IUB for undergrad, and loved the area, but there really isn't anything else in Indiana. When I was doing OCI, I told one of my interviewers that I thought about going to IUB for law school, and he said I made the right choice about NOT going to IUB.

I would NEVER take on the debt to attend GW. If you can, I'd just work in the meantime and wait out another cycle and apply early. If you want to live in DC post-grad, try for GULC, but not at sticker either. Even GULC can be risky if you aren't median.

[raven1231]

The idea the IUB grads only get employed in Indiana is horseshit. They place all over the states with only 30% staying in Indiana...

It's definitely a regional school.

Regional as in Midwest yes but not Indiana

[raven1231]

GW is an absolute no-go for that Price. Pick Indiana.

Government placement is 20%

[Rigo]

GW is an absolute no-go for that Price. Pick Indiana.

Government placement is 20%

So?

[Traynor Brah]

The idea the IUB grads only get employed in Indiana is horseshit. They place all over the states with only 30% staying in Indiana...

kid this is like the third thread you've done this is w/r/t to IU. You don't have any idea what you're talking about. Stop giving advice.

OP, it would make no sense for you to attend IU if you do not have ties to indiana and/or a solid reason to want to be in indiana, for an extended period of time. GW at sticker or anything close to it is a ridiculous proposition. Retake, find another career path, or at least go for a full ride at a school that's in a city you have ties to/want to be in for a period.

[raven1231]

GW is an absolute no-go for that Price. Pick Indiana.

Government placement is 20%

So?

So, he/she said they didn't know what IU's government placement was.

[raven1231]

The idea the IUB grads only get employed in Indiana is horseshit. They place all over the states with only 30% staying in Indiana...

kid this is like the third thread you've done this is w/r/t to IU. You don't have any idea what you're talking about. Stop giving advice.

OP, it would make no sense for you to attend IU if you do not have ties to indiana and/or a solid reason to want to be in indiana, for an extended period of time. GW at sticker or anything close to it is a ridiculous proposition. Retake, find another career path, or at least go for a full ride at a school that's in a city you have ties to/want to be in for a period.

Data is data "kid".

I'm not saying Indiana is a great school or bad school just that pretending you'd be stuck in Indiana goes against what the data are.

[Rigo]

GW is an absolute no-go for that Price. Pick Indiana.

Government placement is 20%

So?

So, he/she said they didn't know what IU's government placement was.

Ah you must have meant to respond to Londonbear. I was just confused in the context of what Roundhill (who didn't ask about govt placement) said.

[raven1231]

GW is an absolute no-go for that Price. Pick Indiana.

Government placement is 20%

So?

So, he/she said they didn't know what IU's government placement was.

Ah you must have meant to respond to Londonbear. I was just confused in the context of what Roundhill (who didn't ask about govt placement) said.

Oh ha ha yeah my bad

[abc987]

I had nearly the same choice three years ago. It was IUB with no debt or GW with a $28k/year scholarship, meaning lots of debt.

I picked IU. I did 1L summer in D.C. at the Justice Department and 2L summer at a national civil rights organization in a city to which I previously had no ties (though I had offers for two national civil rights positions in D.C.). I spent a lot of time thinking about the tradeoffs before making the choice, and I have some better idea of the tradeoffs having gone through the experience.

I'd be happy to be a sounding board for your thoughts and to candidly share my sense of the tradeoffs. If you think that would be helpful, PM me and I'll reply with my phone number.

[Traynor Brah]

The idea the IUB grads only get employed in Indiana is horseshit. They place all over the states with only 30% staying in Indiana...

kid this is like the third thread you've done this is w/r/t to IU. You don't have any idea what you're talking about. Stop giving advice.

OP, it would make no sense for you to attend IU if you do not have ties to indiana and/or a solid reason to want to be in indiana, for an extended period of time. GW at sticker or anything close to it is a ridiculous proposition. Retake, find another career path, or at least go for a full ride at a school that's in a city you have ties to/want to be in for a period.

Data is data "kid".

I'm not saying Indiana is a great school or bad school just that pretending you'd be stuck in Indiana goes against what the data are.

A third of grads are unemployed. A third are gainfully employed in Indiana. A third of them getting jobs outside of indiana is not a function of iu having meaningful placement power outside of indiana, as you assert: it's a function of people scrambling from a school that couldn't place them in a good job, in a state with a fledgling economy and legal market, for any job they can find, often back in their "home" markets. But those people, as a general rule, are far better served for their career, in the long term, by just going to school locally. IU doesn't add value in getting a job outside of Indiana, and it wastes valuable law school capital, relative to attending a school in the region you want to be in long term