<p>jonri, my point is the competition is different. I would be curious to know the non-high gpa Yalies who got into the law school. For the years that I know, the only ones who fit that category had a special reason behind them. Again, with no reason to continue splitting hairs, an ordinary student with no special story will need to do very well among the other ordinary students at Yale who are trying to do very well. One group within Yale is not the same as the other groups within Yale. If I’m wrong and the law school admits ordinary kids with ordinary gpa’s then that is indeed a surprise.</p>
<p>One can always point to oddities. I can say for example that some of the most prestigious, nearly impossible schools to get into admit students with 2.0 gpa’s - even under - and absolutely terrible SAT’s. (This is true; I have actual data.) I’m obviously talking undergrad but my point is that one can take an average and it would be completely misleading. A general statement that one can get into these schools with ordinary to lousy scores would also mislead unless that one is similar to these exceptions.</p>