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Debt Service
Measures your ability to manage your monthly payments, i.e. to repay the money you plan to borrow. Debt service is calculated by dividing your monthly payment into your monthly income. A payment...
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Direct Loan Interest Rate
The interest rate for your first $20,500 of Direct Student Loans, originated by the U.S. Department of Education. The rate is calculated each year using the treasury rate plus 3.6%. This rate...
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Direct PLUS Loan Interest Rate
The interest rate for your student loans originated by the U.S. Department of Education in excess of $20,500 each year. The rate is calculated each year using the treasury rate plus 4.6%...
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Employed Graduates
JOB CHARACTERISTICS MATRIX The job type, employer type, and school-funded job traunches are divisible into a four-part matrix. LONG TERM (LT) SHORT TERM (ST) FULL TIME (FT) PART TIME (PT) LONG TERM...
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Employment Data Categories
All graduates either have a known employment status or an unknown employment status. There are three kinds of known employment statuses: employed, unemployed, and advanced degree. Unknown employment status means that the...
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Full-Time and Part-Time Jobs
Full-time jobs are at least 35 hours per week. Sometimes abbreviated as FT. Part-time jobs are fewer than 35 hours per week. Sometimes abbreviated as PT.
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Gender Diversity
The ABA collects and reports gender data in three categories: men, women, and other. The other category includes non-binary and not reporting.
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GPA
You may have many GPAs to your name: undergraduate, degree, masters, PhD, etc. However, only your CAS GPA, calculated by LSAC, truly matters for law school admission. That’s the GPA that schools...
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GRE
The Graduate Record Examination, or GRE, is a standardized test administered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) for prospective graduate school candidates. It's designed to assess verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, analytical writing...
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JD Advantage Jobs
Includes jobs as paralegals, law school admissions officers, and a host of other jobs such as consultants, bank examiners, and contracts administrators. A graduate falls into this category when the employer sought...
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JD Enrollment
The total number of students enrolled at the law school pursuing a JD degree, the Juris Doctor, which is the "first degree" in law. In most jurisdictions, a JD from an accredited...
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Job Offer Timing
Categorizes employed graduates by when each graduate received the offer for the job held as of March following graduation. The options are before graduation, between graduation and bar results, after bar results...
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Job Score
Job Score for each school reflects how closely a school's job outcomes match your goals. Higher scores are better, all else equal. The numeric value is derived from your job preferences that...
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Job Source
Categorizes employed graduates by how each graduate first made the contact that resulted in his or her obtaining the job. Some students enter law school expecting career services to hand them a...
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Job Type by Employer Type
Looks at all graduates by the type of employer (e.g. Law Firm) and categorizes graduates by the type of job they work for that employer (e.g. Paralegal), producing data about the number...
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Judicial Clerkship
Includes clerkship positions at the federal, state, or local level, or at international or foreign courts. The defining characteristic of a clerk is one who provides assistance to a judge in making...
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Key Statistical Terms
A quartile is the result of spliting a populaion into four equal groups. The 50th percentile, or median, is the middle point between the smallest and highest value in a population. The...
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Large Regional Law Firms
Law firms with between 101 and 250 attorneys total across one or more offices.
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Loan Origination Fee
An origination fee is a percentage of your loan amount charged by the lender for the processing of your loan.
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Location (In-State)
Categorizes employed graduates by whether their jobs are located in the state in which the law school is located. The three options are in-state, out-of-state, and unknown.
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