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URL's are case sensitive and it is suggested standard practice that vanity URL's be in all lowercase. If you are using multiple words in your redirect, they should be separated by hyphens for better SEO performance. For example, https://www.sandiego.edu/applying-to-usd/ is an SEO-friendly redirect.
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A subdomain is the following: http://law.sandiego.edu -> law is the subdomain for sandiego.edu
Unfortunately subdomains are not offered by USD at this time except as redirects. That is, the address law.sandiego.edu redirects to www.sandiego.edu/law. The subdomain URL can function as a redirect to the main www server but cannot serve as the primary URL for any department, school, or center's website at the University of San Diego.
Moving from the current architecture (www.sandiego.edu/law) to utilizing a subdomain (law.sandiego.edu) can create some very significant search significant search engine optimization issues, where there is a high potential to lose more than half of your ranking.