Admitting For-Profit Grads

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Deep down in the minutiae of a particular Law School's admissions site I found among their list of undergraduate institutions of their incoming 2011 class the following:</p>

<p>DeVry University
Kaplan University
University of Phoenix
(non-for-profit but 100% online) University of Maryland - University College, Adelphi</p>

<p>The vast majority of the universities were things like Cornell, U of Texas, U of Rochester, UNC Chapel Hill, Tufts, Emory, and Colgate.</p>

<p>Should this be a major red flag for me in considering this school?</p>

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<p>XaviFM,</p>

<p>If I may ask, what exactly is your concern, here?</p>

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<p>That the degree won’t be respected.</p>

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<p>I think there are a lot better ways to judge the value/prestige of a given law school–such as employment stats, median LSAT scores, bar passage rates, income of grads, clerkship placement, etc. There are lots of reasons why someone might go to a for-profit or online university and it doesn’t have much bearing on whether they’d be a good law school admit/classmate. Chances are, they’ve done something interesting before coming to law school and might add some balance to a class full of people who’ve gone to more selective undergrad institutions.</p>

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<p>Thank you Stacy. I hadn’t thought of it from that perspective.</p>

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<p>I agree, UG degree is of lesser importance. My guess is many of those people were in armed forces, etc.</p>

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<p>If that’s the case, then I’m sorry that our service members short change themselves like that. There are a lot of respectable universities, Troy, Oregon State, Drexel, Washington State, who offer 100% online degrees.</p>