Everyone I ever met who went to Harvard Law School graduated from a college I've never heard of.

[Anonymous]

Why is that?

[Anonymous]

Because they realize how expensive law school is, went to the cheapest college they could find & got a 4.0 GPA and 99th percentile LSAT.

[Anonymous]

Elite professional schools love to brag about how they have students from 200 different colleges all over the US. What they don’t say is that the majority of their student bodies attended elite undergraduate schools.

[Anonymous]

Just my impression—it seems that some graduate schools discriminate against applicants from their own undergraduate schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Just my impression—it seems that some graduate schools discriminate against applicants from their own undergraduate schools.

It’s a lower-level version of protecting against “academic inbreeding.” Guessing graduate programs don’t want to send students out into the world who’ve only studied at the same institution for years & years.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is that?

Not the case at all. Most Harvard and Yale law school alums completed elite undergraduate colleges.

[Anonymous]

It’s because it’s way easier to get a high GPA at one of those colleges, and student gpa is a data point in the US News rankings for law schools, so law schools have an incentive to admit lots of students with high GPA’s.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s because it’s way easier to get a high GPA at one of those colleges, and student gpa is a data point in the US News rankings for law schools, so law schools have an incentive to admit lots of students with high GPA’s.

+100

[Anonymous]

I know two Harvard law grads. One got his bachelors at Harvard, the other at Loyola Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s because it’s way easier to get a high GPA at one of those colleges, and student gpa is a data point in the US News rankings for law schools, so law schools have an incentive to admit lots of students with high GPA’s.

Lol. The average undergrad GPA at Harvard is a 3.7

[Anonymous]

OP - what schools?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s because it’s way easier to get a high GPA at one of those colleges, and student gpa is a data point in the US News rankings for law schools, so law schools have an incentive to admit lots of students with high GPA’s.

Depends on the major.

[Anonymous]

I know two. They went to Yale.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is that?

Geographical, racial, economical, religious, intellectual and philosophical diversity?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s because it’s way easier to get a high GPA at one of those colleges, and student gpa is a data point in the US News rankings for law schools, so law schools have an incentive to admit lots of students with high GPA’s.

Depends on the major.

Most are political history type majors, not many STEM majors heading that way.