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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doing very well at a lower ranked undergrad helps you more than doing just okay at a top undergrad.  Law schools care about your numbers most of all, so if everything else was equal a 4.0 at NC state, or whatever, is going to get you admitted to Yale Law over a 3.5 at Princeton UG.   Being an underrepresented minority also helps a lot.  Everything else like activities and awards counts only at the margins.[/quote]

I disagree with this, the T30 colleges had multiple students in my T5 law school class while lower ranked schools did not have more than one.  It’s always possible for a super strong kid from a lower ranked school to get in, but it’s an easier route from a top ranked undergraduate school.[/quote]

Yes but the students from those top undergrads had top grades as well, or maybe several years of work experience somewhere impressive (many of my law school classmates had worked at banks or consulting companies).

The point is that a 3.2 from Stanford is still not getting you into Yale Law unless you have both a very high LSAT (178+) AND another super high value trait, like being a speechwriter for a Senator or something. It takes a lot for schools to accept a low GPA or LSAT because if they do it too often it really drags down their numbers and that hurts rankings, which are considered really important for law schools.

A top law school sont accept a bunch of students from top undergrads with inferior numbers because they don’t need to and it will hurt them in the long run.[/quote]

True. During the recession, when the number of applicants dropped, some top law schools reduced their class sizes rather than lower their standards for stats. [/quote]

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