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I got into UNC-CH today, which is one of the lowest ranked law schools I’ve applied to, but it’s philosophy program is one of the best. This brings the accepted tally to 9:

Duke
Georgetown
U of Texas @ Austin
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Emory
U of Illinois @ Champaign/Urbana
Washington University in St. Louis
UNC-Chapel Hill

Still to hear back from is:

U of Virginia
U Penn
Yale
U Chicago
Northwestern
U of Michigan & Ann Arbor

Of the law schools I’m in now, my top choices would probably be Notre Dame, Georgetown, or Vanderbilt. Notre Dame has really been growing on me lately as I’ve been reading their promotional materials. It is the only top 20 law school that is seriously Christian (Georgetown isn’t by any stretch, similar to most Jesuit institutions), and I think that Christian emphasis might really add an interesting dimension to studying the law. I know the climate would be VERY different from Millie’s at Suffolk, where religion is usually brought up only in ridicule, and it would also be different from places like Duke, where Graham tells me “role-based ethics” rules the day (i.e. right and wrong aren’t determined by any fixed rules, but by the role that you happen to be filling in the moment. If you are presently filling the roll of “lawyer,” a whole host of words and deeds may suddenly become ethical, even if they aren’t in your role as “husband,” “citizen,” etc.). But of course, everything hangs on where I get into philosophy, and many of my top law choices are long-shots when it comes to philosophy (notably Notre Dame – the best philosophy of religion department in the country -, UT Austin, UNC-CH). I’ll continue to update the blog as things change.