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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Law school admissions is getting more unpredictable like college admissions.

There was a time it was mainly your GPA and LSAT. This year was extremely competitive. I advise students and having a score in the 170s and a high GPA does not guarantee T14 anymore.

The ones who did the best in the process have close to a 4.0, scores in the 170s, at least a year of work experience after college and preferably more, academic prizes or significant leadership or awards in college, recommendations that are outstanding. Strength of undergraduate institution matters more than you think. I have to counsel students that just because they have a high GPA does not mean as much if your degree was online or at a school most people have never heard of.

[b]They are more likely to go deep in the class for an Ivy or top 20 than take  from a lower tier university outside of top 50 unless you are at the top of your class. Going to a huge undergrad can disadvantage you by not getting to know your professors well and being so big that there are so many applying from your school.[/b][/quote]

can confirm, based on law school data from my kid's T10. Students with around 3.7-3.8, which is below average there, can go to the bottom of T14 otherwise go to next tier excellent law such as WashU. The 3.9+ kids get into multiple T14s and over a dozen every year go to T3. However the former usually has 165+ and the latter has 172+. It may not be the university itself as much as the fact that even a below average student at one of those schools is quite likely to be on par with the very top of a below-T50. [/quote]

If you went from a top 10 to a law school below the top 14 that would say volumes about your undergrad accomplishments - and not in a good way.  Better to go to a state school and land a top 14 (or even better a top 8) which is very doable and looks so much better on a resume. [/quote]

I'm not sure that is true.  I think a prestigious undergrad still matters, although obviously much less than the law school.  I've seen situations where, for example, Harvard undergrad helped quite a bit.  And, of course, going from a state school to a top 14 is "very doable," but the vast majority of people are unable to do it.  Most people from state undergrads go to non-elite law schools (which is perfectly fine, btw).

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Correlation is not causation. Going from a state school to a T14 is doable when one has the GPA and LSAT.[/quote]

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