<p>Convince me to pick IU(20k/year) over Umich(40k/year)</p>
<p>Im having trouble turning down Umich, it is a phenomenal school and outranks IU. However, i prefer IU's campus and atmosphere. I will be majoring in history and am looking to pursue law.</p>
<p>Save your money for law school. The 80K+ (over the 4 years) difference is too big of a gap. Choosing IU would be the advice I'd give my child.</p>
<p>definitely IU if ur gona go on to law school</p>
<p>Lots of applicants to Indiana University at Bloomington are unaware that the university has its own pre-law program:</p>
<p>Health</a> Professions and Prelaw Center - Indiana University - University Division</p>
<p>and its own pre-law fraternity:</p>
<p>ΦΑΔ | Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity at IUB</p>
<p>a pre-law student association:</p>
<p>PLSA</a> | Pre-Law Student Association at IUB</p>
<p>that it ties certain majors to pre-law studies:</p>
<p>Degrees:</a> Undergraduate Program: Department of History: Indiana University</p>
<p>[Indiana</a> University Pre-Law<a href="Political%20Science">/url</a></p>
<p>that it has its own student body supreme court--which pre-law students can participate in along with students already in the law school:</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecourt/%5DThe">http://www.indiana.edu/~court/]The</a> Student Body Supreme Court of Indiana University](<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eiuprelaw/%5DIndiana">http://www.indiana.edu/~iuprelaw/)</p>
<p>and has probably one of the most well-known historical legal scholars in the US on its law faculty--Joseph Hoffman</p>
<p>Hoffmann clerked for the late Chief Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist from 1985 to 1986, and recently appeared on the PBS series "The Supreme Court" where he was one of the four featured commentators (Sandra Day O'Connor, one of the former justices, was one of the other three) analyzing why the Supreme Court came to the conclusions it did during the period when Rehnquist was the Chief Justice.</p>
<p>You might also be interested in the "Law School Ranking Game"::</p>
<p>Law</a> School Ranking Game: Indiana Law</p>
<p>put out by Indiana University--showing why US News and World Report's Law school rankings aren't all they are cracked up to be (even though IUB is ranked in the top 36 law schools every year).</p>
<p>Also, there are Legal Studies majors available from both the business school and the public administration program, if you are interested in either of those:</p>
<p>[Business</a> Law Department<a href="ranked%20fourth%20best%20in%20the%20nation">/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.iu.edu/%7Espeaweb/academics/bspa.php%5DAcademics">http://www.iu.edu/~speaweb/academics/bspa.php]Academics</a> - School of Public Affairs and Environmental Sciences, IU Bloomington](<a href="http://www.kelley.iu.edu/buslaw/%5DBusiness">http://www.kelley.iu.edu/buslaw/)</p>
<p>One other thing:</p>
<p>If you know anything about law, you know that who gets in is based almost entirely on:</p>
<p>(1) college GPA, and
(2) LSAT scores
(as long as they take at least a somewhat competitive major and go to a somewhat reputable undergraduate school)</p>
<p>Knowing this, why would anybody go to the most competitive school to build up their GPA?--that's kind of counterproductive, don't you think?</p>
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<li><p>I suggest you go to law school in the state you are going to eventually practice. I have many reasons for suggesting this. </p></li>
<li><p>There is a rather big difference between the ranking of UMich and UI. While I agree totally that your LSAT and GPA is going to determine what law school accepts you I would research the law school(s) and see how much, if any, influence that ranking might have on acceptance. </p></li>
<li><p>I agree that one consideration might be whether you think you will get B's at UMich but A's at UI. </p></li>
<li><p>I would strongly recommend you stay away from Political Science or any other Pre-Law program. Law schools have a gazillion of those applicants and it's the diverse major that has the advantage. (The part in Legally Blonde where they said 'well we have never had one of those' is totally true)</p></li>
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<p>I agree with the previous post. Like medical schools, public law schools (UM and IU included) give admission preferences to residences. They also give preferences to their own graduates. If you live in Indiana and plan to practice in Indiana, I would go to IU. By the way, Umich may have better reputation, but IU is highly regraded in Humanities and Fine Arts. You won't go wrong with IU if you want to major in history.</p>
<p>Thanks alot guys. You've all been very helpful. IU it will be, unless i pull out Dartmouth or UVa, which would complicate things.</p>
<p>recap - this might be far ahead of the game - maybe you just have a general interest in law - which could be narrowed down or if you have an interest could change while in law school - but something that might be insightful to you - go to martindale.com and search for the firms or corporations which you envision as your "dream jobs" and check out the attorneys and partners profiles - see where they did their undergrad and what law schools they attended.</p>
<p>IU is a great school, granted it does not have the high rankings of Michigan but I say save your money for law/grad school.........if you have to choose where to spend the $$ you will be making a wise decision! IU is supposed to have some of the happiest students anywhere, I don't think you will regret it.
Good luck to you.</p>
<p>I think UMich is worth the money</p>
<p>UMich is a great school. For kids interested in business/economics then umich is probably the best since that helps a lot when applying for top grad business schools. However, if you want to do medicine or law it does not matter where you do your undergrad as long as you have a solid GPA and strong test scores</p>
<p>If you think you'll be happier at IU then at U-M, go to IU.</p>