Does Undergrad College matter?

<p>Do the top law schools care about where you got your undergrad degree or not? Say for example, two people applied to Harvard Law School and they both got a degree in Economics. But one person got their degree from Northwestern and one got theirs from UIC. Does it matter? Or do they look at grades and other stuff?</p>

<p>I would venture to say it depends on the underlying factors, someone with a 3.9 from UIC as opposed to a 2.9 from Northwestern would probably get it. I would probably say someone with a 3.75 as opposed to a 3.9 would probably get in over, the UIC student.</p>

<p>No it doesn't matter. They care about GPA to boost their USNews rankings.</p>

<p>Of course, when one looks at the number of students by school matriculating at Harvard Law, one can't help but notice that fact that the students from Ivies and Ivy-equivalents make up a HUGE portion of the class.</p>

<p>This is in part to why I transferred from UMass -> William and Mary. I wanted to get a competitive edge on admission to a top law school. </p>

<p>I don't know if it truly matters any more, they all tell me it doesn't. ALl I have found here is that it's a lot harder and my GPA will actually now go down ... as it does for all people here (so competitive). </p>

<p>Eh, I guess it depends on what you are comfortable with, going to an easy undergraduate and getting a 3.8-4.0 or going to a difficult, competitive college and getting a 3.5-3.7 range. </p>

<p>I dunno anymore! </p>

<p>Eek.</p>

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Of course, when one looks at the number of students by school matriculating at Harvard Law, one can't help but notice that fact that the students from Ivies and Ivy-equivalents make up a HUGE portion of the class.

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<p>Well, they also probably have more high LSAT scorers than other schools.</p>

<p>But they also have more gpa inflation relative to other schools. ANd privelege begets privelege when you go to a school that allows you to get the same grade elsewhere with less work.</p>

<p>ok...this os a q which has been nagging me...
i c some of my class mates preparing law books and i really find this stuff interesting...and ive always kept law as one of my choices for post grads</p>

<p>Can an engineer (electrical and computer engineering from Cornell) get a seat a one of the swell law schools...i mean, do u have to have a humanities background?</p>

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But they also have more gpa inflation relative to other schools.

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<p>No, they don't. This is something people at lower-ranked schools tell themselves, but it isn't true. It's much easier to get A's at almost any state school than any Ivy.</p>

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But they also have more gpa inflation relative to other schools. ANd privelege begets privelege when you go to a school that allows you to get the same grade elsewhere with less work.

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<p>Grade-inflation and such schools will only carry you to a B+, and maybe an A-. Earning an A at an Ivy is very difficult. The average GPA thus comes to somewhere around a 3.5-3.67, where at least a 3.8 is needed to be competitive at a school like SLS or above.</p>

<p>A- at cornell in the humanities/social sciences is no big deal, if u do the work, A is NEAR impossible</p>

<p>No you don't. If you get an easy A minus, you have more time to do extracurriculars and study for LSAT and move on with life. A 3.6 is good enough for top law schools, it just means you ahve to score a little better on your LSAT in general, which isn't hard since you have so much more free time and don't have to fret.</p>

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A 3.6 is good enough for top law schools, it just means you ahve to score a little better on your LSAT in general, which isn't hard since you have so much more free time and don't have to fret.

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<p>Read, read, read...</p>

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The average GPA thus comes to somewhere around a 3.5-3.67, where at least a 3.8 is needed to be competitive at a school like SLS or above.

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<p>Have you seen the recent USNews? SLS 25th percentile is 3.8. That means at 50 people in the class have below that. Its 75th percentile for LSAT is 172. Using the way gpa's are normally calculated, a 174 and a 3.6 puts you square in the median of the stanford law student population in terms of academic index.</p>

<p>LSAT is a greater limiting factor than GPA, tons have 3.8's. Only a few hundred have above a 175.</p>

<p>Polite is once again correct.</p>

<p>I am quite surprised that an A- (3.7 GPA) is no big deal at Cornell. I thought Cornell had harder grading.</p>

<p>Ill be starting undergrad at FSU in the fall. I plan to major in english,and want to minor/double major in music deending on if I get in. Will this be an good setup to get into a good law school?</p>