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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-law-school
Best law school feeder schools. [/quote]

This is very interesting. The top feeder list is roughly reflecting usnwr rankings with two exceptions, Yeshiva and Brandeis. What is special about these two t50+?[/quote]
Feeders are NOT a thing. Correlation is not causation.[/quote]

What are you talking about, what causation. Obviously if you go to these feeder schools they prepare you well for top law schools, so you have a better chance of being accepted. [/quote]
No. Going to a top college does not increase an individual's chances of admission to a top law school.

GPA + LSAT are what matter for T14 law school admission. There is no special "preparation" for law school. Yes, thinking logically and being able to write are helpful, but that preparation can be done anywhere, and are unrelated to law school admission. LSAT: take a prep course. College does not prepare you for the LSAT.

Time and time again, these threads about "feeders" for law schools devolve into lawyers saying that feeders are not a thing and nonlawyer parents and, more often, high school students claiming that feeders are a thing. Sorry, this is a pet peeve.  There is no need to attend a "feeder" to increase one's chances of admission to a top law school.[/quote]

Having watched my kid go through the Law School admissions process last year, this is exactly right. I don't know if it's "easier" to get into a top law school than a top undergrad institution but it's certainly more predictable. For undergrad, impeccable GPA and test scores are the table stakes to even merit consideration - and then you must have the something special to be admitted. For top law schools, if you have the GPA and LSAT in the 75th+ percentile, you're going to get into a top law school. Yale, and to a slightly lesser extent Stanford, are the only 2 that still need "something special" -- Yale Law School admitted only 16 students direct from undergrad last year so that something special seems to include relevant work experience.

Where law school admission could be "harder" than undergrad is if it's harder to make a 3.95+ GPA in college than in high school and/or if it's harder to score in the 99th percentile on the LSAT than the SAT/ACT. It's no surprise that if a person has the grades and test scores to get into a top undergrad, they are likely to continue to achieve similar scores in college - so if any school is a "feeder," it's only because it enrolls more of those kids in the first place. As a 1L, my kid has found more genuine socio-economic diversity in law school - with classmates from a wide range of undergrad institutions - than at their non-HYP Ivy undergrad school where everyone was seemingly from private schools or highly affluent suburban public schools.[/quote]

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