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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is causation and correlation.  I think there is a high correlation between high SAT and high LSAT, and LSAT is one of the major stats along with GPA.  Median LSAT at Yale is 175 and 75th percentile is 177.  75th is often cited as the "unhooked" target percentile.  If you look at data from LSAC on LSAT by colleges, you will see that some schools don't have a max score that reaches the Yale 75th percentile.  For instance, Max for Penn State from the 2017 data was 171, Arizona State 175, University of South Florida 175.  None of those have any students at Yale in the class of 2026.  (I recognize time periods differ, but it the most recent data and it still supports the point.)   I think Harvard and Yale are largely taking students that can present the stats regardless of where they went, it just happens that those are disproportionately from the most selective colleges.

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]

yeah, shocking isn't it.  The kids who were really smart in HS and got into T50 and T20 SLAC are more likely to end up at a Top law school.  Who would have thought it possible?

Also finances play a part---kids at those schools were more likely Full pay so more likely to think "mommy and daddy are helping fund law school so I can afford to apply to expensive law schools"[/quote]

Yes.  I looked the data up when I read an earlier post saying from someone saying they would only look at UVA and W&M for pre-law and not Virginia Tech or JMU because they are not on the list at Harvard (or Yale).  I think this is just a stats thing and doesn't have anything to do with "pre-law".[/quote]

My neighbors (married couple) both went to JMU and then to Georgetown Law.  Some of the assumptions on this thread are truly clueless.
DP[/quote]

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