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[quote=Anonymous]You are incorrect in your assumptions, PP. 20 years ago, we did indeed get the majority of our entering JD classes from 25 or or so feeder schools. That is no longer the case by any stretch. I have served several times on our admissions committee in recent years, and I am very familiar with the profile of our entering classes. Your assumptions are out of date. We do not admit average kids from either the top 25 schools OR obscure schools, because we have learned that the best predictor of law school grades is being in the top 25% of the student’s college class. Kids from the top 25th% at obscure colleges outperform kids from the 50th percentile at elite colleges, in our experience. The kids who do well at their college, whatever their college was, do well in law school. whether this is true at other T 14 schools, I have no idea, but speaking for ours, a kid who does well at any school in the country and as well on the LSAT had as good a chance of admission as a kid from a top 25 school.

And here’s the thing: USNews does not care which colleges our students come from; They care only about the GPA and test scores of entering students. We have absolutely no incentive to take low stats kids from fancier schools over high stats kids from obscure schools.[/quote]

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