Most important, even though the MSEL is a fully accredited graduate program, VLS is a Law School first and foremost and therefore graduate students are treated as second class students not good enough for law school. I chose VLS over other programs because of their reputation as leaders in environmental laws and policies. Unbeknownst to me that I would have to complete ABA law courses with second and third year law students(Why don't MSELs have their own classes???). Thus, there was a very steep learning curve- and only 1 exam for the entire semester (this and solely this was responsible for one's final grade). In hindsight, I should have accepted admittance to a regular thesis required policy graduate program- the playing field is more level there. Nonetheless, the program has potential, but only if the MSEL program identifies itself as unique outside of the law program. I wouldn't suggest that potential policy students apply to VLS, unless one does not care to be in a nontraditional graduate program with an unfair disadvantage. The MSEL loser jokes grow stale very fast in SoRo's tiny community.
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