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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
Feeders are not a thing no matter how many times these lists are repeated. The applicant's test score is what matters, not the average for the undergrad. A particular applicant's undergrad does not affect their LSAT score.[/quote]

It does unfortunately. Otherwise UChicago or Stanford would be sending droves of kids into YLS, but unfortunately they don't. YLS has a very clear East Coast bias.[/quote]

On a percentage of applicant basis ending up at YLS, Stanford trails only Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.  A smaller percentage of Stanford graduates apply to law school compared to those schools.  Stanford has a higher percentage of students graduating with engineering and other tech degrees, and they don't tend to apply to law school.

School	Percentage  Applicants (3 year) 
Yale (90)	15.79%  570
Harvard (54)	8.37%  645
Princeton (31)	7.51%  413
Stanford (22)	6.81%  323
Columbia (34)	6.77%  502[/quote]

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