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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The undergraduate schools represented at Yale law are posted on another thread. Harvard has been posted many times on DCUM. There may be 86 and 146 different schools represented but one needs to look into the details to see that the ivies and top privates make up the majority of the class. Sure, each ivy may take one kid a year from some subset of average state flagships, but many years there are none from specific schools. Now if the state flagship is UVA or Berkeley then it matters a lot less as these undergrad institutions are well represented in ivy law schools. [/quote]

The fact that the law schools do not disclose in these reports of undergrad represented scholls is that a huge portion of the class is from Harvard and Yale. It looks far more egalitarian to say "Look! Yale Law takes from 86 undergrad institutions! Aren't we wonderful!" to admit that there are only
204 in Yale's entering class, 80 of which are from Yale, 39 from Harvard plus 86 from "others" which magically takes you to roughly 204.  My alma mater, Harvard does the same thing. One-third of the class in my class was Harvard undergrad. So while Harvard says "Look we take from 146 different schools!" the fact overlooked is that the entering class at Harvard is over 500. After you subtract the 144, the remaining 360 is primarily Harvard and Yale grads.

OP - you need to realize of those 84 at Yale and 144 at Harvard, those students are almost always the valedictorians of their college class, as I was and have perfect GPAs and extremely high GPAs. Harvard's 75th percentile has a 3.99 and higher GPA and a 177 LSAT or higher.  So if your daughter is intentin this llan she needs to go to a school where she canbe valedictorian (take a soft major).[/quote]

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