Back in March, the announcement that George Mason University would adopt the name of one of the United States’ staunchest conservatives for a rebranding of its own law school drew outrage from student on-campus and from faculty outside of the law department. However, data released by the new Antonin Scalia Law School suggest that the controversial switch is proving a magnet for legal talent. Antonin Scalia Law School has 179 students in its 2016 intake cohort, compared with 159 the previous year before the name change took place. Moreover, the median grade point average (GPA) and law school admission test (LSAT) scores of admitted students has also inched up, from 3.59 to 3.66 for GPA and from 161 to 162 for the LSAT year-on-year.
Sources: Wall Street Journal; Above the Law
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