Chances of Law School Admission? (Current Freshy Undergrad)

Graduate School Law School
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Hi everyone!

So, I’m just curious. Say someone has a 4.0 and an above average LSAT score for a particular law school. What are the chances that the student would be admitted? Is law school like undergrad in that there are 1000s of students with the same qualifications vying for the same spot, or will a high GPA and LSAT score truly get you where you want to be?

Very new to the law school discussion, and I’d greatly appreciate any information y’all have!

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Ask in http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/

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Applicants above both medians for a particular law school are almost always admitted. Exceptions might be for Yale Law School & for Stanford Law since both are small & always ranked among the top 3 law schools.

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http://schools.lawschoolnumbers.com/ has Naviance-like scatterplots.

For example:
http://harvard.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1819
http://gulc.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1819

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@ucbalumnus: Great graphs. Saw that Law School Numbers reports Whittier Law School as being ranked at #38 by US News. Someone at LSN.com has a sense of humor or just got fired.

Also, what did Temple Law do that resulted in being placed in the “unranked” category ? Probably misreported data to US News.

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the following is even better as it allows one to includes/excludes URMs and accounts for ED. It also show merit money.

https://mylsn.info/r/pre-law/admissions/search/

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My daughter is going through law school admissions right now and one of the takeaways we’ve had is that in many ways law school admissions is more straight forward. If you have the numbers, you will be admitted. There are some schools that seem to waitlist applicants until they write a school specific essay or otherwise show interest (UVA and Michigan for example) but generally speaking law school admissions is easier to predict than undergraduate. The one intangible is to what extent each law school places a value on work experience. If you are applying to law school directly out of undergrad you will be competing with other applicants who may have significant, relevant work experience so your admissions outcome as a “K-JD” kindergarten to law school might not be quite as good. “Mylsn” was not perfect but it was accurate enough to give her a pretty good idea of probable outcome