It’s not a “simple statement”, as it’s a topic often discussed with plenty of opinions but no proof; as of now, the top two threads on this forum ask this question specifically. And the support you previously supplied for arguing that law schools do “cut slack” for prestige schools was over a decade old from someone peripherally involved in admissions.
As the top schools appear to value numbers(GPA and LSAT specifically) more than anything else, this would suggest that where you go to school doesn’t matter as much as how you do in school and how you do on the LSAT.
This link suggests that they might, although it is old:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000829094953/http://www.pcmagic.net/abe/gradeadj.htm
^That >20 yr old link was discussed on page 1 of the thread.
Really really smart students attend the top schools in bunches. Many other schools have the same quality of students at a smaller percentage. It makes perfect sense that the schools with students who are really bright and have super motivated students tend to have high representation at top professional schools. They will also have relatively higher numbers of blowout lsat scores. They are smart and they can can take tests well. They’ve demonstrated that already.
Listing that top schools have four or five students from each of these schools and one or two from countless others makes perfect sense.
It tells me that they don’t give you a bump because you’re attending a top school. It tells me since you attended a top school there is a likelihood that the top students at that school end up at top grad schools. If you go to eastern Dakota state, get the 4.0, great recommendations, 174 LSAT and interned at Dakota Legal Services you’ll be sitting next to these in class too.
OP. Your competitors are sitting with you in class. They are also in honors classes and community college. If they have a higher gpa, same lsat and equal ecs. Not sure they won’t take them instead. In fact, they maybe impressed by the ability for the directional u student to do so well without all of the obvious advantages you have at Harvard.
It is highly unlikely that law school admissions officers “give GPA slack” to applicants from highly ranked undergraduate schools as law school deans are evaluated in part on the law school’s US News ranking, and US News’ rating system does not adjust GPAs of students based on the quality or ranking of undergratuate school attended.
Due to demand by legal employers, some give GPA breaks to engineering students as engineering departments tend to grade lower than do humanities departments.
As a rule, they do not. A B at Harvard does not an A from Directional U make. It also is relevant that taking difficult courses is not going to help if it lowers your GPA. Engineering majors are at distinct disadvantage in gaining Med school, Law school admissions as well as admissions to programs that go by GPA. I’ve seen this with some kids, including some in our family where they are so astonished that they get no quarter in admissions. My one nephew just graduated from a top university taking on some very difficult courses, which quashed med school and hurt top ranked law school chances. They told him right out.
The short answer is no. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Harvard is just one of many schools from all over the country that law schools get applications for. There’s no correlation with school brand name and being prepared for law school. A bachelors is accredited the same regardless. If you want to get into a law school like Stanford, you need to have competitive grades and top LSAT scores.