<p>Wow-</p>
<p>Magazine rankings and cronyism is the rebuttal logic to my post. How sad. </p>
<p>Res ipsa loquitor. W&M by far is the better choice.</p>
<p>And, what did you offer to prove that a Bama diploma on the wall would be a negative? </p>
<p>(Since no one would give a rat’s patootie what the undergrad was in your proposed scenario, your post had no point. And, since Bama has the higher ranked law school, a law degree from there shouldn’t scare anyone. And, while USNews may not be perfect in its rankings, it certainly isn’t so imperfect that anyone could argue that a law degree from Bama is worse than one from W&M.)</p>
<p>* have visited, and I love both the UA & WM campuses. I won’t graduate WM with any debt, however I’d have to take out less loan money for law school if i were to go to UA.*</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>^^^No debt does not mean no cost. Alabama will cost the OP less than W&M, so he/she would have more to devote to law school in the future.</p>
<p>“Not saying the op should choose UA, but get of(f) UA’s back they are a great public university.”</p>
<p>I’m sorry but the word “great” is thrown around here too easily at times. There are only a handful or so of great public schools in this country. UA is not among them. It is a good school, but nothing exceptional. W & M is exceptional.</p>
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<p>I would definitely take Alabama. It is by far the better choice. Just like swish said, don’t believe the magazine rankings.</p>
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NMFs are not the best way to measure such things. After all, even 183 freshmen make up ~3% of the freshman class. To be blunt, that a university forks over money hand over fist to bribe a few top students to attend says little about the overall level of the student body. Alabama has a long way to go before it matches W&M on that front.</p>
<p>Math SAT
W&M: 620-720
Alabama: 500-620</p>
<p>700+
W&M: 37%
Alabama: 9%</p>
<p>600-700
W&M: 47%
Alabama: 23%</p>
<p>600+
W&M: 84%
Alabama: 32%</p>
<p>Critical Reading SAT
W&M: 620-730
Alabama: 490-620 </p>
<p>700+
W&M: 43%
Alabama: 13%</p>
<p>600-700
W&M: 41%
Alabama: 17%</p>
<p>600+
W&M: 84%
Alabama: 30%</p>
<p>Writing SAT
W&M: 620-720
Alabama: 480-600</p>
<p>700+
W&M: 40%
Alabama: 7%</p>
<p>600-700
W&M: 43%
Alabama: 20%</p>
<p>600+
W&M: 83%
Alabama: 27%</p>
<p>ACT
W&M: 28-32
Alabama: 22-29</p>
<p>30+
W&M: 60%
Alabama: 21%</p>
<p>Grades and Class Rank
3.75+
W&M: 86%
Alabama: 36%</p>
<p>Top 10%
W&M: 79%
Alabama: 43%</p>
<p>Well you can compare those percentages because ua is a larger school. 36% have 3.75+ gpa. Thats 36% would come out to be roughly 9,444 students with a gpa of 3.75+ which is more than 3000 more students that W &M has in its college. </p>
<p>So if you want to put it like that UA seems to have a lot more students with top grades then w & M. I mean come on man I can do what I just did with every one of your stats ad make tour stats just worthless to this post. </p>
<p>w& m is a great school. But so is ua. And ua has a better law school which is the subject of this post.</p>
<p>CANT in the first sentence instead on can** my bad ^^</p>
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Yes, with correspondingly larger courses and a larger ratio of students to faculty. </p>
<p>Overall numbers may or may not matter depending on how you look at things. It would be easier for a high performing student to find similar students at W&M. Even if Alabama has similar numbers, it may not be as easy to find them, especially if you are not in the honors program or some other such perk. </p>
<p>Additionally, courses tend to be taught to the average or median student, and that is a higher bar at W&M than Alabama.</p>
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Since when does that have anything to do with pre-law? Brown, Princeton, and Dartmouth don’t even have law schools, but nobody would dispute that they thoroughly trounce almost all other colleges in law school placement.</p>
<p>This is a silly discussion. Both are good choices and are very different schools. Alabama has a decent reputation in the mid-South and a great network. It offers a fun college experience with SEC sports. If the OP gets a high GPA and does well on the LSAT, he will get into the same law schools he would coming out of W&M. I work with a lot of lawyers and other professionals in the South, and plenty of very bright people have Alabama undergrad and professional degrees and are very highly regarded. Yes, the bottom half of the class might not be as impressive, but that doesn’t affect the OP’s law school goals. It really depends what sort of college environment he wants. SEC schools are not for everyone, but they offer a fine education.</p>
<p>Alabama is nowhere near the same class academically as William and Mary. If the cost is the same this is a no brainer. W&M</p>
<p>Swish summed it up perfectly. W&M competes against the Ivies for students. This isnt even a choice.</p>
<p>*have visited, and I love both the UA & WM campuses. I won’t graduate WM with any debt, however I’d have to take out less loan money for law school if i were to go to UA.</p>
<p>Why?
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<p>I think that he’s saying that if he went to W&M, his parents would have to pay for that. If he went to Bama, it would be nearly free, therefore he could use his parents’ money towards law school and borrow little.</p>
<p>Fliqer…the cost ISN"T the same…that’s the whole point of the OP’s question.</p>