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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doing very well at a lower ranked undergrad helps you more than doing just okay at a top undergrad.  Law schools care about your numbers most of all, so if everything else was equal a 4.0 at NC state, or whatever, is going to get you admitted to Yale Law over a 3.5 at Princeton UG.   Being an underrepresented minority also helps a lot.  Everything else like activities and awards counts only at the margins.[/quote]

I disagree with this, the T30 colleges had multiple students in my T5 law school class while lower ranked schools did not have more than one.  It’s always possible for a super strong kid from a lower ranked school to get in, but it’s an easier route from a top ranked undergraduate school.[/quote]

Yes but the students from those top undergrads had top grades as well, or maybe several years of work experience somewhere impressive (many of my law school classmates had worked at banks or consulting companies).

The point is that a 3.2 from Stanford is still not getting you into Yale Law unless you have both a very high LSAT (178+) AND another super high value trait, like being a speechwriter for a Senator or something. It takes a lot for schools to accept a low GPA or LSAT because if they do it too often it really drags down their numbers and that hurts rankings, which are considered really important for law schools.

A top law school sont accept a bunch of students from top undergrads with inferior numbers because they don’t need to and it will hurt them in the long run.[/quote]

I think it depends on the law school, even at the T5 level.  You're not going to find very many 1Ls at Yale Law who didn't attend a highly ranked undergrad, and you might find a few more at Stanford, but you'll find plenty of 1Ls from so-so undergrads at Harvard.  Harvard is a much bigger school than Yale and Stanford and has to cast a wider net to fill its classes.   [/quote]

BWAHAHAHAH!  Harvard has to cast a wide net? Since when?  The AVERAGE GPA is a 3.92 and the AVERAGE LSAT is a 74 in the most recent incoming class at Harvard.  What so-so schools send students to HLS?  Everyone there was a valedictorian, a salutatorian, a Rhodes Scholars, etc. or a sterling Harvard undergrad who spent time at Oxbridge.  Yale Law does not have 19 Fulbright Scholars, five Schwarzman Scholars, four QuestBridge Scholars, three Posse Scholars, two Truman Scholars, one Marshall Scholar, two Rhodes Scholars, and two Gates Millennium Scholars, among many other awards and honors.  Read about the newest class here:  https://today.law.harvard.edu/harvard-law-school-j-d-class-is-most-academically-accomplished-diverse-in-school-history/.[/quote]

Did you see the part in your link where Harvard notes that the incoming class has students from [b]171[/b] undergraduate schools?  That's a lot of schools, 100 more than Yale's entering class.  I never said the students weren't all highly qualified; I[b] simply said the school typically enrolled from a wider ranger of undergraduate schools because the entering classes are so big.
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Obviously you aren't Harvard quality when it comes to reading comprehension.[/quote]

No, you didn't.  You said "Harvard is a much bigger school . . . and has to cast a wider net to fill its classes" which has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever seen on DCUM.  [/quote]

I stand by my statement.  [b]And you are a child[/b].  [/quote]

Says the troll who claims Harvard has to "cast a wider net to fill its classes".   Like Harvard has to do anything to fill its classes:  
"Harvard Law School received a total of 9,993 applications, up 33% over the 7,505 applications received a year earlier. The school admitted 685 candidates to get to its enrolled incoming class of 560 students for an acceptance rate of 6.9%, well below the 12.9% admit rate last year."[/quote]

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