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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the takeaway is if you can't get into a top 20, 30 school. Or more relevant to the topic, can't PAY for that type of school, you're basically screwed out of top grad schools and relegated to the mid-tier or low castes of society? LOL

Viva America![/quote]

Not at all. See my posts. I worked a long time in admissions for a (lower) T10 law school. We loved strong GPA’s in good majors from state schools. We wanted socioeconomic diversity. [/quote]

See the quote below for a group tracking the top feeder schools for law school.  Understand the schools they reference are the Top 30 schools...which includes the University of Michigan, UVA, and Berkeley (the only State schools listed).

Again, one way to look at is that 43% of law school students at the Top law schools did not attend the Top 30 undergrads.  Another way, is that 57% of all law school students at Top law schools came from only 30 schools... 1% of all 4-year colleges in the United States produced 57% of all law school students.

Also, the #1 feeder to each Top 10 law school was that very same undergraduate institution.  I.e., the #1 feeder to UVA law school is UVA, the #1 feeder to Northwestern Law School is Northwestern, etc.

[b]Does institutional selectivity matter?
When applying to law school, yes, it appears that institutional selectivity does in fact play a role. In our sample, of the students who went on to enroll at America’s best JD programs, approximately 57% graduated from colleges categorized as “Most Selective” or “Extremely Selective.” However, 21% of elite law school students in our sample did graduate from schools indicated as less selective or non-selective, suggesting that attendance at a highly selective undergraduate college or university isn’t a prerequisite to earning a top-flight JD. Click here to see how we group colleges by selectivity.[/b][/quote]

I think this is misleading as it confuses causation with correlation.    Law schools are stat-driven because they need to maintain their rankings.  They get a disproportionate number of students from selective institutions because those institutions have a disproportionate number of high stat kids.  If the high stat kids are applying from other schools, they will definitely be considered.

Take a look at Yale Law School.  They used to publish the number of students in the bulletin (see pages 115-117 in the PDF below).  Median LSAT for a class is 175.  If you look at the ABA statistics on the top 240 undergraduate schools for providing applicants to Law schools, you will see that there are many that do not have a top score reaching 175 in certain years.  For instance, The Ohio State University did not have anyone out of 404 applicants in 2017 score over 174.  No one reached the median at Yale Law.  The schools with higher numbers enrolled at YLS school correspond to those with students with higher LSAT (and GPA) scores.

https://bulletin.yale.edu/sites/default/files/yale-law-school-2018-2019.pdf
https://law.yale.edu/admissions/profiles-statistics
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 [/quote]

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