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[ben says]

People go to Harvard Law and other elite schools so that they never (or rarely) have to step foot in a court. I doubt they put much emphasis on moot court.

To the post about GPA. Some schools may not allow people to state their GPA, but they do let them know where they ranked in their class. This is what really matters since grades are often curved. I don't know how it is for Coastal grads, but at elite law schools class rank is pretty important. The people who finish highly ranked in their class pretty much call their shots.

It is the same at Coastal. Rank dominates, GPA doesn't. Most schools grade on a curve, whether tier 1 or tier 4. Therefore, there's no better way to determine status than your class rank. Obviously, the higher than rank, the better your chances are of doing anything, anywhere.

[Debbie Thompson]

Not re the law school, but...I had a friend who said he was going to a local for-profit technical school for computers, and that they place a high number of their grads in high paying jobs.  I said, right, check it out.  He didn't listen and signed the contract.  I called around to a few IT departments and HR departments and asked what they thought of this school. They said don't waste your money.  Go to college and get a computing degree.  Friend ended up graduating in top of his class, facing huge student loan, and ended up working back at his old job fixing cars to pay it off.

NOT suggesting this law school is similar.  In fact, I've heard good things about it. Just suggesting potential students call some top local law firms' HR departments and ask them if they would, all else being equal,  hire a graduate of this school just as well as any other school...before they sign up.