It is a poorly kept secret that law schools game the U.S. News rankings system by padding out their second-year classes with transfer students who would otherwise have no chance of getting admitted as 1Ls. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced among Washington, D.C., law schools.
· About a SIXTH (113) of Georgetown’s second-year law school class are transfer students — more than any other law school in the country.
· American University’s Washington College of Law lost 100 of its 473 rising 2L students to other schools– more than any other law school in the country.
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· American lost 55 of those students to George Washington Law.
· American’s associate dean for faculty and academic affairs, Anthony Varona, characterized GW’s practice as a “backdoor transfer trick” and “downright predatory.”
Sources: Inside Higher Ed and ABA Journal