I’m currently a senior who is choosing between pursuing a business degree at Miami University and Hawaii University at Manoa. I would prefer to attend Hawaii because It’s farther away and I like their international business program, but I know that Miami’s business school has higher rankings that Hawaii U. I am fairly certain that I will be attending law school, and I want to know whether or not choosing Hawaii U over Miami will decrease my chances of getting admitted into a top law school (EX. HLS or Columbia) if I keep my GPA high, score high on the LSAT, etc. Does it matter if you’re choosing between two middle of the road undergraduate schools?
Law school admission is mostly about LSAT score and college GPA. http://lawschoolnumbers.com/application-prep/ugraduate has some more information on undergraduate preparation for pre-law students, and other parts of that web site can give some idea of what LSAT score and college GPA to aim for.
https://www.lstreports.com/schools/ can give you an idea of how each law school’s graduates do in employment afterward.
For the very top law schools, once you get get past the top undergraduate schools it really doesn’t matter. If you can manage a near 4.0 and 172+ LSAT, you will likely get a good look at from any undergraduate school.
Yup, doesn’t matter where the gpa comes from, just needs to be as high as absolutely possible. That, and 172+ will maximize chances of acceptance to Harvard/Stanford/Columbia and Chicago.
Note that when LSAC recalculates college GPA for law school admission purposes, A+ is worth more than A. So if you attend a college that gives A+ grades and achieve well enough to earn them, that can be beneficial when applying to law school.