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Get the inside scoop on Georgetown University Law Center admissions. Vault provides detailed accounts by students & alumni of the admissions process, including advice on getting in, applications, interviews, essays, and selectivity.


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Admissions Survey Excerpts
Alumni
Admissions was excellent, with clear procedures, early notification, personal attention and response, and a wine & dine to woo early admitted cand...   READ MORE
Alumni
My impression was that the admissions process was not very selective if you came from a top-10 undergraduate college and had better than average L...   READ MORE
Current Student
Georgetown is highly selective. After spending a year at another law school, I applied to transfer to Georgetown in my second year of law school....   READ MORE
Alumni
The admissions process was not difficult. In fact, I sent in my application prior to taking the LSAT (which I took in February). I had to submit...   READ MORE
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Academics Survey Excerpts
Alumni
The law school was excellent in all regards, the MSFS program very worthwhile in subject matter, but inconsistent in professor quality and frustra...   READ MORE
Alumni
Although the legal clinics were top notch, I found the academic program too rigid and uninspiring. As each class was so large but grades were so ...   READ MORE
Current Student
Georgetown's strength is its depth in curriculum and quality of professors. There is a class for practically any interest. Professors come from ...   READ MORE
Alumni
Superb! I found all the classes and the professors (with the exception of one or two) to be wonderful and interesting. Of course your first year...   READ MORE
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Employment Prospect Survey Excerpts
Alumni
The law school excellent re counseling, job & internship possibilities, prestige with employers and the whole recruiting process. The MSFS suffers fr...   READ MORE
Alumni
On-campus recruiting was well-organized and active, along with the career placement resources and counselors. If you wanted to interview with a partic...   READ MORE
Current Student
Geogretown, like nearly all law schools today, as geared toward work in a corporate law firm. The career services office does a great job of seeing t...   READ MORE
Alumni
I had not problem getting a job after graduation. As with most of the top tier schools, Georgetown conducts On Campus Interveiwing (OCI) during the f...   READ MORE
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Quality of Life Survey Excerpts
Alumni
DC was great for me as a student: 1) because of the internship possibilities for a student of int'l law & project finance, and; 2) because of all ...   READ MORE
Alumni
Although the school had built a dormitory for first years next to the campus, it was still not far away from a homeless shelter and Capitol Hill, ...   READ MORE
Current Student
There is school housing across the street from campus; otherwise students are free to find housing in D.C. or surrounding areas. The school itsel...   READ MORE
Alumni
The school isn't located in the best neighborhood -- there's a homeless shelter a block or so away. But I always felt very safe on "campus" which c...   READ MORE
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Social Life Survey Excerpts
Alumni
I'm a married, older student living off campus. I enjoyed my classmates, but I also had more non-student friends among my wife's co- workers, neig...   READ MORE
Alumni
Dismal on campus. You lived in a city, so if you hadn't joined a particular club at the school, your social life revolved around activities in the...   READ MORE
Current Student
With a school as big as Georgetown, there is a wide variety of social clubs. However, its size also prevents you from feeling connected with a go...   READ MORE
Alumni
There are several bars in walking distance of the school. In addition, there used to be "Keg on the Quad" which is an event where free beer is prov...   READ MORE

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