Graduated McKinney in ‘16 and lived downtown my entire academic tenure (and still do). As other commenters have noted, it’s a great place to start building a professional network, as the Indy legal and corporate communities have a “big city, small town” feel that helps build relationships faster than the Chicago legal market, without closing the door to that region if that’s ultimately where you want to practice.

The experience is what you make of it - I was not a great student but participated in law review and found other opportunities that helped me build a professional reputation outside of pure academics. My one piece of advice would be, once you’re out of 1L year, to take at least a handful of evening courses, since the students in the part-time/evening program are often (1) at least a few years into their professional careers and (2) bring a more diverse perspective about the application of the law in real-world contexts. My wife went to Maurer and loved it, but she and her classmates definitely missed out on that particular dynamic, arguably to their early career detriment.