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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t really matter where you to go to college for the top law schools, grades and lsat scores are all they care about.  The top law schools accept students for a wide range of schools.[/quote]

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If that is the case why are the number of students in the T14 from Ivy League and similar undergraduate schools (inclusive of certain SLACs).  Riddle me this? I went to a top 60 undergrad and top 50 law school and made it to big firms but eventually left.  [/quote]
As a PP explained, there's a confounding extrinsic variable: students who get into the top undergraduate schools tend to have high GPAs and standardized test scores.  These same students are likely to have high undergraduate GPAs and standardized test scores.  In other words, the students who are most likely to get into the top law schools are the same students who are most likely to get into the top undergraduate programs.[/quote]

This poster is exactly right. Put simply, kids who go to top undergraduate schools tend to be very smart and those of them who apply to law schools tend to be very smart. But not all of them get in to T-14 schools. The undergraduate school with the highest average LSAT scores last year was Yale with 167.5. Many top tier undergraduate schools had averages of 165 or below. While a 168 is in the 96th percentile of an already very selective cohort, it is probably not going to get you into a T-14 law school unless you are URM.  In the end, where an applicant went to undergraduate school is far less important than grades and LSAT scores. Finally, as others have said, graduating from a T-14 school is not necessary for success in the field of law by any means, nor does it guarantee success.[/quote]

[b]An LSAT score of 168 combined with a high undergraduate GPA should yield an offer or tow (Georgetown & Cornell) from top 14 law schools even for a non-URM.
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An URM with an LSAT score of 164 and a high undergraduate GPA, should yield offers of admission to about 7 of the top 14 law schools as median is not the standard, the 25% is the standard.

A degree from a top 14 law school greatly enhances one's chances for high earnings early in one's legal career.[/quote]

Disagree.  Harvard's stats for incoming 2022 was a 75th percentile GPA of a 3.99, median of 3.92 and bottom 25th percentile of 3.82.  The 75th percentile LSAT was a 176; median 174 and bottom 25th percentile 170.  A 168 isn't going to cut it.[/quote]

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