<p>do brown undergrads get to go to prestigous law skools?</p>
<p>if so, what major / courses do they concentrate on?</p>
<p>i got admitted to brown, penn, cornell, u chicago, and gtown…
and i’ve narrowed my choices down to brown, penn, and gtown…</p>
<p>cant really decide… help!!</p>
<p>At least when I graduated 10 years ago, I found that brown grads did very well in getting admitted to the top 10 law schools. I got into my top choice (Columbia) even though my lsat scores were well below Columbia's average. At Columbia there were about 10-15 brown grads in each year. Everyone I knew from my year at Brown got into their first choice law school. NYU and Harvard are especially popular.</p>
<p>Law schools don't like the idea of students having taken pre-law classes, because they like to work on a clean slate. I knew someone from my class at brown who majored in pure math and got into Yale. Law schools like majors that are unusual among lawyers, like engineering, physics, even music, etc. I myself studied Russian Lang. & Lit and Comparative Lit, although originally I had planned to study fine arts. </p>
<p>What's great about Brown is that you can take what you want and have a lot of freedom to explore your own interests, discovering along the way that your interests will change, expand, and grow. The prospect of applying to law school shouldn't restrict you at all along this path.</p>
<p>I can't speak for the other schools, but I had a fantastic academic experience at Brown. I often tell people, the essence of what I do now as a lawyer I learned at Brown, not law school. Brown allows you to be creative and encourages you to be intellectualy curious and honest, qualities that are important for a good lawyer.</p>
<p>good luck.</p>
<p>Brown student's get into slightly better law schools than the other schools on the list. Some evidence (albeit not perfect) is on this link, which shows the number of matriculating students from each college attending Harvard Law School:</p>
<p>Brown: 51
Penn: 53
Cornell: 40
Chicago: 16
Gtown: 33</p>
<p>You need to take class size into account to make these numbers more meaningful:</p>
<p>Brown: 5,700
Penn: 11, 687
Cornell: 13,625
Chicago: 4,672
Gtown: 6,537</p>
<p>To get these scores ((#at HLS/#ugrads)*100)</p>
<p>Brown: .895
Penn: .457
Cornell: .294
Chicago: .34
Gtown: .51</p>
<p>Admission to law school depends mostly on your LSAT and GPA. If Brown gets more people in to HLS than the other schools, it is because the students get better scores. The school itself does not get you in. A 3.7 GPA and a 175 LSAT from Brown, Penn, or Georgetown will provide you with similar options.</p>
<p>You should major in something that you can get a high GPA in. Therefore, forget about physics and engineering unless you want to be a patent lawyer (these majors are known for rigorous grading). Take some logic classes (which will help you on the LSAT). Any difficult social science or humanities concentration should be fine from these schools. Majoring in economics will give you more options if you decide not to go to law school.</p>
<p>The Wall street Journal did not break out professional schools by field, but Brown was ~12th overall feeder to "top" prof schools. I think this was higher than Penn or Georgetown. But the methodology was terrible.</p>
<p>You can find the most recent career report from Brown graduates (class of 2003) at</p>
<p>Based on 43 respondents in law school, plus an unknown number who may have been admitted but deferred enrollment:</p>
<p>Top 10 law schools attended
1. Georgetown University Law Center 6. Northeastern University School of Law
2. Boston University School of Law 7. University of Michigan Law School
3. Columbia University School of Law 8. Duke University Law School
4. New York University School of Law 9. Harvard University Law School
5. Boston College School of Law 10. Indiana University School of Law</p>
<p>Note: Only 49% of graduates responded. So there may be disgruntled students who did not get in their favorite law school, or any at all, and did not respond to the survey.</p>
<p>afan, you said: "Only 49% of graduates responded. So there may be disgruntled students who did not get in their favorite law school, or any at all, and did not respond to the survey."</p>
<p>Why is this bad? Those who didn't get in anywhere did not respond, so you still have a close approximation of how many people went to a top grad school, right?</p>
<p>Any other flaws with this ranking? I would be interested to know about more.</p>
<p>Wow. Chill Out People.</p>
<p>as stated on the admissions website, 92-95% of law school applicants at brown are accepted at one of there top three choices in a given year.
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/gettoknowus/factsandfigures.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/gettoknowus/factsandfigures.html</a></p>
<p>very, very few schools can boast this stat</p>
<p>Hyper. It is not bad, but it means that one cannot assume the people who did not respond had the same positive experiences as those who did not. Worst case would be that those who responded represented everyone who got in law school.</p>
<p>Dcircle. I am aware of that statement. I was looking for the data that backs it up, and this is all I could find. If you know of more information, please share it.</p>
<p>go to the website of any law school you are interested in. look up the student profile--both harvard and yale law schools list how many students are from brown. divide this number by the total undergrad population and do a similar comparison for other schools. brown will be far higher than the vast majority of schools--including all those listed in this thread. there's the "back-up" data.
the fact that it's on an official brown website is proof alone though--bold statements like that are only made when absolutely verifiable.</p>
<p>dcircle</p>
<p>Do you know of any more detailed stats on Brown student's and admissions to graduate or professional schools? </p>
<p>Does Brown keep records, similar to those published by some other colleges, that list admissions results as a function of GPA and standardized test scores? If you can you give that information here, or point us to it?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Brown has one of the top prelaw programs</p>
<p>See</p>
<p>they send 92% of applicants to med school. i asked andrew simmons for data and he sent me a breakdown of what med schools got into + gpa/mcat scores etc</p>
<p>I actually went to the Pre-Law session and the Pre-Law advisor was really informative on that. He said Brown's average LSAT was something like 164 (which is really high), and they are a feeder into all the top schools except for Yale Law. I guess there are more than 20 kids this year who got accepted into Harvard and pretty much the same with NYU, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, U Chicago, etc. The average Brown student LSAT who got into Harvard was only like a 170-1. The other thing that I really liked about Brown's Pre-Law was that Brown really helps people apply to Law School after graduating. In fact, only 1/5 Brown students who apply to Law School in a given year are graduating Seniors. Overall, Brown's Pre-Law is great... it's one of the things that made me like Brown over Duke...</p>