<p>I was wondering how much does a person's college choice weight into law school admissions. For example, a 3.5 from a college like claremont mckenna vs a 3.5 from berkeley. Who would get accepted? Does one's college matter? and where can i find which school are given more preference?</p>
<p>Pretty sure it's almost completely GPA and LSAT; most advice seems to say that college prestige rarely enters into it in any meaningful way.</p>
<p>berkeley would take the edge, all else being equal</p>
<p>From what I've seen, a few schools in the country receive a very mild boost. The others are all equal to each other. Berkeley and McKenna would not be remotely different.</p>
<p>If I had to choose, though, I would have assumed that the McKenna kid would get the boost.</p>
<p>I actually remember reading that Boalt Law School at Berkeley uses some sort of weighting system for undergrad GPAs. GPAs from some schools get adjusted down, GPAs from other schools are left the same, and GPAs from the top schools get adjusted up. Claremont McKenna, Pomona, and Stanford were all boosted slightly. GPA for undergrad Berkeley students was actually left the same. I can't find the link for this info right now, so I might be remembering it wrong. </p>
<p>In general though, it's a bad idea to pick your undergrad school based on law school prestige. Your LSAT score will matter a lot more than any potential slight GPA boost.</p>
<p>The uproar that ensued when Boalt's system was published resulted in their disavowing their system. Whether they still use it or not under the table is, of course, impossible to say.</p>