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

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest feeders to Harvard and Yale law schools are 1. Their own undergrads and 2. Each other’s undergrads. After that, there are many non-Ivy schools represented (link below).

That said, HLS has a prestige above its ranking. It has a very big class and even prior to this year was ranked 5 or 6. There are other great law schools that are more difficult for admittance.

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/

Yale undergrad here and I was coming here to say that I know a lot of Yalies who went onto Harvard Law. Strangely I can think of more classmates that went to HLS than YLS.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard only the fifth rank law school anyways. EDs will not be to Duke Law and Penn Law! That's what my kids will do.

?? Which is why Harvard, Yale and Stanford don’t have ED. They don’t need to

ED is a thing for law school now???? really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard only the fifth rank law school anyways. EDs will not be to Duke Law and Penn Law! That's what my kids will do.

?? Which is why Harvard, Yale and Stanford don’t have ED. They don’t need to

ED is a thing for law school now???? really?

Yes. Timing is just as important. If not ED, then at least November. A high lsat app submitted on March 1 will be disappointed with their choices if they were hoping for a top 10 school. ED and rolling admission fills the selective schools early. Being a perfect student with a 99% lsat is only half of it. The other half is timing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest feeders to Harvard and Yale law schools are 1. Their own undergrads and 2. Each other’s undergrads. After that, there are many non-Ivy schools represented (link below).

That said, HLS has a prestige above its ranking. It has a very big class and even prior to this year was ranked 5 or 6. There are other great law schools that are more difficult for admittance.

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/

Yale undergrad here and I was coming here to say that I know a lot of Yalies who went onto Harvard Law. Strangely I can think of more classmates that went to HLS than YLS.

HLS is 3x the size of YLS and less selective

[Anonymous]

The two HLS grads who come to mind immediately went to Harvard and Yale for college.

[Anonymous]

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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

Well the average student at Harvard is pretty smart and hardworking. In terms of GPA, I'd rather compete at a no-name school than at Harvard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzP7oDCciGI&pp=ygUPaGFydmFyZCBpcyBoYXJk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard only the fifth rank law school anyways. EDs will not be to Duke Law and Penn Law! That's what my kids will do.

?? Which is why Harvard, Yale and Stanford don’t have ED. They don’t need to

ED is a thing for law school now???? really?

Yes. Timing is just as important. If not ED, then at least November. A high lsat app submitted on March 1 will be disappointed with their choices if they were hoping for a top 10 school. ED and rolling admission fills the selective schools early. Being a perfect student with a 99% lsat is only half of it. The other half is timing.

No one who is serious about law school is submitting on March 1st. No one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest feeders to Harvard and Yale law schools are 1. Their own undergrads and 2. Each other’s undergrads. After that, there are many non-Ivy schools represented (link below).

That said, HLS has a prestige above its ranking. It has a very big class and even prior to this year was ranked 5 or 6. There are other great law schools that are more difficult for admittance.

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/

Yale undergrad here and I was coming here to say that I know a lot of Yalies who went onto Harvard Law. Strangely I can think of more classmates that went to HLS than YLS.

That wouldn't be surprising given their class size. More Yalies go on to HLS than YLS in terms of sheer numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest feeders to Harvard and Yale law schools are 1. Their own undergrads and 2. Each other’s undergrads. After that, there are many non-Ivy schools represented (link below).

That said, HLS has a prestige above its ranking. It has a very big class and even prior to this year was ranked 5 or 6. There are other great law schools that are more difficult for admittance.

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/

Yale undergrad here and I was coming here to say that I know a lot of Yalies who went onto Harvard Law. Strangely I can think of more classmates that went to HLS than YLS.

HLS is 3x the size of YLS and less selective

Not less selective. A lot of HLS students, like me, also got into Yale (and STanford, and chicago, etc.) but choose HLS because of the extraordinary opportunities to meet classmates. Yale is just too small and focused on teaching (and super woke, liberal stuff).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Lol. The average undergrad GPA at Harvard is a 3.7

Well the average student at Harvard is pretty smart and hardworking. In terms of GPA, I'd rather compete at a no-name school than at Harvard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzP7oDCciGI&pp=ygUPaGFydmFyZCBpcyBoYXJk

I don't have time to watch a video, but I'm a harvard law alum and would do nothing differently. Here's the stats. The 1L class at Harvard University has a median LSAT of 174. The 25th percentile LSAT is 170 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 176. The median GPA is 3.92. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.82 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.98.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest feeders to Harvard and Yale law schools are 1. Their own undergrads and 2. Each other’s undergrads. After that, there are many non-Ivy schools represented (link below).

That said, HLS has a prestige above its ranking. It has a very big class and even prior to this year was ranked 5 or 6. There are other great law schools that are more difficult for admittance.

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/

Yale undergrad here and I was coming here to say that I know a lot of Yalies who went onto Harvard Law. Strangely I can think of more classmates that went to HLS than YLS.

That wouldn't be surprising given their class size. More Yalies go on to HLS than YLS in terms of sheer numbers.

Yes, HLS is 570 per entering class. Yale is whatever Yale decides at that moment. If you want to go into serious BigLaw and you have a choice you don't pick Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest feeders to Harvard and Yale law schools are 1. Their own undergrads and 2. Each other’s undergrads. After that, there are many non-Ivy schools represented (link below).

That said, HLS has a prestige above its ranking. It has a very big class and even prior to this year was ranked 5 or 6. There are other great law schools that are more difficult for admittance.

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/

Yale undergrad here and I was coming here to say that I know a lot of Yalies who went onto Harvard Law. Strangely I can think of more classmates that went to HLS than YLS.

HLS is 3x the size of YLS and less selective

Not less selective. A lot of HLS students, like me, also got into Yale (and STanford, and chicago, etc.) but choose HLS because of the extraordinary opportunities to meet classmates. Yale is just too small and focused on teaching (and super woke, liberal stuff).

In the unlikely event you actually went/go to HLS, you should do a better job of sticking to facts.

From last year
HLS applications: 8,225
Offers of admission: 822
10% acceptance rate
559 enrolled
68% yield

YLS applications: 4,202
Offers of admission: 236
5.6% acceptance rate
192 enrolled
81% yield

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/

https://law.yale.edu/admissions/profiles-statistics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard only the fifth rank law school anyways. EDs will not be to Duke Law and Penn Law! That's what my kids will do.

?? Which is why Harvard, Yale and Stanford don’t have ED. They don’t need to

ED is a thing for law school now???? really?

Yes. Timing is just as important. If not ED, then at least November. A high lsat app submitted on March 1 will be disappointed with their choices if they were hoping for a top 10 school. ED and rolling admission fills the selective schools early. Being a perfect student with a 99% lsat is only half of it. The other half is timing.

No one who is serious about law school is submitting on March 1st. No one.

What a stupid response. You know nothing about other peoples lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have worked with several recent HLS grads who just are not very smart.

hmmm. Right. Did that make you feel better to type that sentence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard only the fifth rank law school anyways. EDs will not be to Duke Law and Penn Law! That's what my kids will do.

?? Which is why Harvard, Yale and Stanford don’t have ED. They don’t need to

ED is a thing for law school now???? really?

Yes. Timing is just as important. If not ED, then at least November. A high lsat app submitted on March 1 will be disappointed with their choices if they were hoping for a top 10 school. ED and rolling admission fills the selective schools early. Being a perfect student with a 99% lsat is only half of it. The other half is timing.

No one who is serious about law school is submitting on March 1st. No one.

What a stupid response. You know nothing about other peoples lives.

Serious applicants get their applications in to Harvard in September for the following fall. https://www.shemmassianconsulting.com/blog/how-to-get-into-harvard-law#:~:text=Admissions%20are%20rolling.,viewed%20as%20a%20competitive%20applicant.