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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You get in by having a very high LSAT and GPA.  They are numbers driven.  The "feeder" schools are largely the schools that have a higher percentage of students that will get high LSAT scores and GPAs.  The school isn't producing them as much as they are enrolling them.[/quote]

If you look at the average LSAT and GPAs from ABA: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/legal_education_and_admissions_to_the_bar/council_reports_and_resolutions/May2018CouncilOpenSession/18_may_2015_2017_top_240_feeder_schools_for_aba_applicants.authcheckdam.pdf

A lot of schools have very similar average LSAT and GPAs but some schools like the ivies feed more into the top-tier law schools than other institutions. For top-tier law schools, having a high LSAT and GPA is just a prerequisite and other factors are taken into consideration during the admissions process.

For example, the undergraduate schools ranked by average LSAT scores in 2017 are:

Yale - 167.5
Harvard - 167.4
Princeton - 166.10
UChicago - 165.98
Stanford - 165.72
Dartmouth - 165.67
Columbia - 165
Duke - 164.97
Penn - 164.58
Tufts - 164.48
Brown - 164.31
Northwestern - 164.30
WUSTL - 164.05
Georgetown - 163.48
Vanderbilt - 163.45
Rice - 163.44
Amherst - 162.79
Notre Dame - 162.75
Cornell - 162.65
McGill - 162.64
Wesleyan - 162.61
JHU - 161.82
NYU - 161.75
W&M - 161.18
UVA - 160.84
UBC (Canada) - 160.76
BC - 160.70
Emory - 160.64
Michigan - 160.48
Brandeis - 160.30
Colgate - 160.23
Berkeley - 159.44

The clear overperformers (for YLS and SLS) are schools like Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Georgetown, Berkeley, while Duke, Tufts, Northwestern, WUSTL, UChicago, Vanderbilt underperform relative to their peer institutions.[/quote]

Not all schools have a similar numbers or similar percentage of students applying to law school.  Stanford, for instance, had 323 applicants to law school over a 3 year period.  Berkeley had 1,506.  Nearly 7% of Stanford law school applicants ended up at YLS vs. only .9% for Berkeley.

Median LSAT at YLS is now 174, so you shouldn't really look at average LSAT score for applicants of a school.  You should be looking at how many applicants the schools have that can produce the YLS median or higher.  Ohio State for instance, had 404 law school applicants in 2017 and only the top scorers out of that 404 reached 174.  There are many schools that don't have any applicants that reach that score.

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