<p>I have seen the following links for the breakdown of undergraduate schools represented at HLS and YLS. I havent been able to find the same information for other Law schools (NYU, Columbia, Cornell, Duke etc). Any help will be appreciated Thanks</p>
<p>This is the best I could do for Duke:
<a href="http://www.law.duke.edu/career/forms/facts.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.law.duke.edu/career/forms/facts.pdf</a></p>
<p>I "googled" to get info for Cornell and got this, but it wouldn't let me copy it and the link was to a "cache." This is what I found:</p>
<p>The Class of 2006 at Cornell Law had students from 108 colleges and universities with 45 majors. The most represented schools were Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, Cal-Berkeley, UChicago, Princeton, Stanford, URochester.
More than 50% had WE and 10% had graduate degrees. </p>
<p>Will add anything further I can find, but google and you should find some of them too.</p>
<p>Most Law Schools do not have such information availlable. UVA and Georgetown do. </p>
<p>I also have information on Chicago and Northwestern which I can post if you so please.</p>
<p>Some schools, like Cal, Michigan and Yale also post detailed information as to where their undergrads go to Law school.</p>
<p>And here I thought this was going to be a mental health thread.</p>
<p>LOL greybeard. I guess Law students can relate!Curiousstudent, here's the information for:</p>
<p>University of Chicago Law (Schools, Colleges and Universities represented by the entire Law School student body):
Northwestern University 29
University of Chicago 29
Brigham Young University 22
Georgetown University 20
Yale University 20
Harvard University 17
UC-Berkeley 17
Duke University 16
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign 16
University of Pennsylvania 16
Princeton University 15
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 14
Brown University 12
University of Texas-Austin 12
Stanford University 11
University of Wisconsin-Madison 11
Dartmouth College 9
University of California-Los Angeles 9
Vanderbilt University 9
Cornell University 8
Emory University 8
Rice University 8
University of Southern California 7
University of Virginia 7
Carleton College 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6
Amherst College 5
Indiana University-Bloomington 5
Williams College 5</p>
<p>Northwestern University Law (class of 2007):
Northwestern University 18
Georgetown University 11
Duke University 8
Princeton University 8
Stanford University 8
University of California-Los Angeles 8
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 8
University of Pennsylvania 8
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign 7
University of California-Berkeley 6
University of Notre Dame 6
Cornell University 5
Harvard University 6
Yale University 5
Columbia University 4
Dartmouth College 4
Miami University-Ohio 4
University of Florida 4
University of Texas-Austin 4
University of Virginia 4
University of Wisconsin-Madison 4
Brown University 3
University of Washington-Seattle 3
Williams College 3</p>
<p>I plugged all these data in to find out which schools are the best at getting their students into the top law schools (I chose 6 schools for representation--Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Virginia, and Georgetown) and corrected for student size and came up with this list:</p>
<p>Harvard University</p>
<p>Yale University</p>
<p>Princeton University</p>
<p>Amherst College
Duke University</p>
<p>Williams College
Stanford University</p>
<p>Brown University</p>
<p>Swarthmore College
Rice University
Dartmouth College
Georgetown University</p>
<p>Columbia University
Pomona College
University of Chicago</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania
Bowdoin College
Northwestern University</p>
<p>Middlebury College
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Cornell University
Emory University</p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Virginia
University of California - Berkeley
University of Notre Dame
Tufts University
Vanderbilt University</p>
<p>University of California - Los Angeles
Johns Hopkins University
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Carnegie Mellon University
Washington University</p>
<p>Also, just for comparison, here is a ranking of what schools are the best at getting kids into Yale and Harvard law using data from the past two years from both law schools:</p>
<p>Harvard University</p>
<p>Yale University</p>
<p>Princeton University</p>
<p>Amherst College
Duke University
Stanford University
Williams College</p>
<p>Brown University</p>
<p>Swarthmore College
Dartmouth College
Rice University
Columbia University
Pomona College</p>
<p>Georgetown University
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Bowdoin College
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Cornell University
Middlebury College</p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emory University
Northwestern University
University of California - Berkeley
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt University
Tufts University
Johns Hopkins University
University of California - Los Angeles
University of Virginia</p>
<p>University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Carnegie Mellon University
Washington University</p>
<p>One thing that was kind of shocking--Washington University in St. Louis is absolutely abysmal at getting kids into law school....For example, Duke sends 20X the number of kids Wash U does to Harvard and Yale law.</p>
<p>If you want to get a real list you've got to include all of the top 6 or all top 14, IMHO. Your failure to include any West Coast Law Schools is going to affect the results.</p>
<p>Well, if you can find the data from the rest of the top 6-14 law schools, feel free to post it on here. I'm sure incollege88 won't be hesitant including them in the data.</p>
<p>I hope it was clear that I wasn't suggesting that incollege88 had selected the LSs in his sample to "fix" the results. I'm just saying that you can't compare undergraduate colleges in terms of the number of students who get into top law schools without looking at data from all the LSs at a particular level. Since WUSTL is not in the East, it's possible that a higher percentage of its graduates choose to go to LS on the West Coast. </p>
<p>To illustrate my point, look at this data for Williams College. It is VERY,VERY out of date. Nevertheless, it's obvious that including Georgetown in the data as one of the LSs used to measure "success" during the most recent time period listed would yield far more impressive results for Williams than if Stanford were used. </p>
<p>using harvard law school in the sample is... well... harvard is overwhelmingly represented in harvard law school. so i'm wondering, if you took harvard law school OUT of the formula, how would harvard undergrads still fair?</p>
<p>Since Harvard Law School is the biggest of the top-rated law schools, and so many Harvard College alumni go there, taking Harvard Law School out of the mix would distort your analysis. Harvard College alumni are well represented at the other top schools.</p>
<p>Most years at Boalt, Harvard and Yale alumni are the best-represented graduates of out-of-state schools; they're generally greatly outnumbered by Stanford, Berkeley and UCLA grads. Alumni of those three schools accounted for more than a third of the class when I graduated. Of course, people born on my graduation day will be old enough to buy bourbon soon.)</p>
<p>Actually, I think that Harvard Law is not just the biggest of the top-rated law schools in terms of enrollment, it is the biggest US law-school period, at least from a full-time basis.</p>
<p>Harvard has slightly more full-time students than Georgetown (1670 to 1607 as of a couple of years ago); if you count part-time students, Georgetown is largest.</p>
<p>"And here I thought this was going to be a mental health thread."</p>
<p>do students ever breakdown in class or during sometime while they're in law school?</p>
<p>Sure, sometimes law students suffer breakdowns. </p>
<p>One percent of the general population suffers from schizophrenia. In males, the typical age at onset is the late teens to early twenties; for females, it's more typically the twenties or thirties. </p>
<p>Given the age of the typical law student, it's not surprising that some of them would develop schizophrenia before they graduate.</p>
<p>Aside from that issue, law school can be stressful. (Practicing law can be stressful for that matter.) People react to stress in different ways. </p>
<p>Law school, like lawyering, presents many opportunities for public humiliation. It's not for the faint of heart, or the fragile of psyche.</p>
<p>What's the percentage of schizophrenia in the entire US population?</p>
<p>Just wondering... what are some of the different types of "lawyering" you can do?</p>
<p>I know some are like trial lawyer, corporate lawyer, what else?</p>
<p>This site has stats on all the Law Schools and is searchable.
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search for the right law school for you using criteria that you select (e.g., employment rates after graduation, bar passage rate, size of faculty, student body breakdown, tuition, etc.)
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<a href="http://officialguide.lsac.org/docs/cgi-bin/home.asp%5B/url%5D">http://officialguide.lsac.org/docs/cgi-bin/home.asp</a></p>