Ave Maria Law School

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>Does anyone have any information about Ave Maria Law School?</p>

<p>In this forum, there is constantly threads about the questionability of lower ranked law schools. Certainly, Ave Maria fits into this category. Most graduates end up working in JAG. </p>

<p>Ave Maria:</p>

<p>poor alumni network?
waste of money?
intellectual?
good leadership (Robert Bork) ?</p>

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<p>i live down the road from it now. things to know:

  • a lot of people get scholarships to go there.<br>
  • it’s extremely catholic/conservative
  • the person who created it (the founder of domino’s pizza) wants to move it to florida, where he’s building a catholic town surrounding a new university (also called ave maria)
  • faculty and students seem rather unhappy about this move, with votes of no confidence against the dean.<br>
  • they have a very high bar passage rate</p>
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<p>Pretty good local rep. A lot of the lawyers in my area went to ave maria</p>

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<p>A few thoughts…</p>

<p>I don’t know much about the school, so I can’t comment directly upon it. I would tell you that you should ONLY go to a school with such a ranking if you want to do what most of their graduates do.</p>

<p>You mentioned that a lot of them go into JAG. I looked at their mission statement and philosophy - seems like AM is a fairly conservative school. With more liberal schools, when grads can’t get jobs in firms, they do things like Legal Aid. JAG is a big one for the conservatives. Just warning you if you don’t want that type of atmosphere.</p>