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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Point taken about the class size. But the point still stands (from the misconception on the other thread) that almost all of the class is not from top schools.[/quote]
[b]Are you saying that a student is just as likely to get into HLS from a non-top school as someone who attends a top school, all else being equal?[/quote][/b]They are wrong.  See above.  The Harvard entering class is 560.  Only 147 come from the SLACs listed. The rest all come from Harvard (a huge percentage of the class), Yale, Princeton, Stanford, then the lesser Ivies.  Yes, Harvard likes to sweep up the valedictorian at many small colleges but most of those kids check off another box - like me - I was first gen and had other odd skills that Harvard Law could brag about to its alumni when it sends out its letter every year saying 147 schools! 4 Rhodes Scholars! 8 pancake turners! 13 eagle scouts! 12 Marshalls, 87 foreign languages!, and so on.  Skin color is paramount.  a 180 LSAT helps (believe it or not the 75th percentile at HLS has a 179 LSAT and a 3.99 GPA - that's off the top of my head so might be slightly off - but still very impressive, I guess).

Harvard posts this list every year just so some poor dupes at a slac somewhere think they have a chance.  It's very unfair.  30% of my class was from Harvard undergrad so that's 168 students.  [b]Note you won't find this information on the HLS website anywhere.[/b][/quote]Yeah, maybe because it's all wrong/lies. At least it would have been wildly inaccurate when I was there. Harvard ("the college") was the biggest HLS feeder, but at well less than 10% of the class--and they regularly were mocked as the dumb ones.[/quote]

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