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My opinion would be that the strongest resource a law school might have for a graduate is the alumni network -- suggestions about who to talk to, which graduates are involved in hiring decisions, etc.

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  1. intransitive verb To be granted an academic degree or diploma: Two thirds of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.
  2. intransitive verb To change gradually or by degrees.
  3. intransitive verb To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity: After a summer of diving instruction, they had all graduated to back flips.
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  1. Middle English graduaten, to confer a degree, from Medieval Latin graduārī, graduāt-, to take a degree, from Latin gradus, step; see grade.

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  1. from Middle Latin graduatus, past participle of graduare (later Italian graduare = Spanish Portuguese graduar = French graduer), confer a degree upon (in modern use with extended meaning), from Latin gradus, a step, degree, Middle Latin an academical degree, etc.: see grade, n.
  2. from Middle Latin graduates, past participle: see the verb.
 

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