<p>how is their overall law school placement? is much harder to get into a T5 law school from emory than from a "higher ranked" university? are the chances better if you your studies from the college or the business school or would doing both be the best option (if you were interested in doing both)</p>
<p>The school doesn't really help with placement in law schools. This past year I had friends who applied to Yale, one from UGA the another from Emory. The student who applied from UGA got in where the Emory student was rejected, they had close GPA's and exact LSAT scores. They look at the program of study, consider work experience, LSAT and UGPA, and recommendations. Each school differs in how it views colleges e.g. Yale has, for the last 4 years, had more students from Duke than any another "Southern Ivy" whereas Harvard has accepted more students from Emory.</p>
<p>so in other words, undergraduate university really should not hurt your chances when applying..it is more your course of work, grades, those things..but Emory has not and will not impede getting into harvard, for example?</p>
<p>Is Harvard where you are set on going? What law schools are you considering? The better question would be what type law are you interested in practicing? That's where the research should derive from.
Studying political science for example is a commonalty for many applicants, subject fields such as philosophy (which helps with similar abstract thinking and analysis that will be expected in law school) and economics have become more a preference, though not written in stone.
As long as you are within the top 50 universities or a nationally acclaimed college, you shouldn't have to worry about the prestige of a program. Emory has much more prestige than UGA but its your presentation that will determine everything. I have a few book titles you may be interested in...</p>
<p>i'm still very very early on in the process, but was just interested. i am starting to see though that really if you want a T5 law school you'll need 3.85+ 172+</p>
<p>harvard maybe even higher?</p>
<p>about right?</p>
<p>i'm not sure what type of law i'm interested in yet, but i'm thinking some sort of trial law</p>
<p>3.85 will put you in the 75 percentile as would 172-175.<br>
However each year the competition gets rougher. I would recommend a 3.9 at least, just to play it safe.</p>
<p>How many of those that below the median but still very much above the 25th percentile are admitted or wait listed? I can’t seem to find that info.</p>
<p>And, a friend of mine was admitted to Yale Law with a 4.0 in poly sci from U.F. So I worried forever about GPA needing to be absolutely perfect. But I’ve known people who have been admitted to top 25 schools without the GPA being much higher than a 3.76 </p>
<p>Any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>I’ve been wondering about their law school placement too. Apparently Emory Law School’s career service department has been a train wreck the past two years. I was reading about it on [EmoryLawStudent.com</a> | The truth about Emory Law School?](<a href=“http://www.emorylawstudent.com%5DEmoryLawStudent.com”>http://www.emorylawstudent.com) . It seems that the law school has fallen in the rankings because of its low job rate.</p>
<p>I think many schools below a certain rank have been suffering in the bad economy. If many people are pursuing “big law”, you’re kind of screwed unless you are at a Top 10-15 law school as they tend to only recruit at these places apparently. I’d imagine that Emory law is actually good at teaching/curriculum/mission, but given the rather “elitist” (basically prestige/perception matters a bit too much in the case of business and law) nature of “big law” and “big business” (for B-schools) recruitment , great schools with a rank just outside of a certain realm will suffer immensely. Not only this, but USNWR changes the methodology to make such schools suffer even more b/c of this scenario. I find this situation ironic, and am glad I am in the sciences where I mostly just need to be good at what I do, and this type of mess affects me less as long as I am doing my part and attending a reasonably well-off institution.</p>