<p>Ok so i was browsing some of the previous law school admissions threads and couldn't find anything on two schools of interest: Brandeis and Wake Forest. My question is: What school has the edge in getting into top law schools? Are these schools generally feeders into top law schools? Are they good at feeding into top MBA programs?</p>
<p>I am DEFINITELY much more interested in Law, so if we could keep this thread somewhat more directed to that, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!</p>
<p>Both are great, though edge may go to Brandies</p>
<p>I don’t think any school has an extra edge, since both are very good schools, there’s no advantage by going to one over the other, go to the place where you think you can succeed the best at</p>
<p>ive read on some of the previous threads, with Harvard Law School 2006 Admissions, and it has Brandeis at #16 or something for sending kids to Harvard. Now although this is one very small sample, it is intriguing…I agree that they are both comparable academically, but I am simply looking for anything that may sway my decision.</p>
<p>I thought that Wake has a top 15 business program (not sure) but Brandeis may be better to get into HYS Law. Both are good schools, though.</p>
<p>yea Wake’s undergrad business school is ranked 14th…i do want to go to law school though. If i was to choose to go to Wakes business program, would that help or hinder my goal to get into a top Law program??</p>
<p>I think a good business program is a good major to be in to get into law school (something such as economics for example)</p>
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<li><p>Law school is a professional school, not graduate school. They may seem the same to you, but learn the difference if you expect people to take your post-college aspirations seriously.</p></li>
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This holds even more true for law school. Law school admissions consists almost solely of GPA and LSAT scores. Your choice of college matters very little, as long as you have a high GPA and score well on the LSAT. This has considerably more to do with how good a student you are than how prestigious your college is. The reason top colleges send many students to top law schools is because they enroll top students. </p></li>
<li><p>I suspect the flocking of Brandeis students to Harvard law has more to do with geographic proximity than an admissions advantage. I would imagine that the reverse would hold true at Duke law. Wake students outnumber Brandeis students this year at [Yale</a> law](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/bulletin/html/law/students.html]Yale”>http://www.yale.edu/bulletin/html/law/students.html), so clearly they do not have a problem getting into top law schools.</p></li>
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<p>well that’s a distinction without much of a difference but i see your point and will remember it. thanks. anyways… i appreciate the insight of everyone, and the affirmation that wake forest is a good feeder into top law schools. i am definitely a better fit at wake, but thought that brandeis may have a slight edge academically. any comments on wake’s reputation as an overly difficult school? since gpa matters greatly for law school, going to a school that is generous with grades would be a bonus…any thoughts? thanks!</p>
<p>It wouldn’t matter where you go, in terms of the prestige of these schools. Not only are the not far apart (again, in terms of prestige), law school admissions are almost entirely based on GPA and LSAT scores. So, just go where you think you’d succeed more.</p>
<p>Most important thing in law school admissions is LSAT scores and GPA. If you have high LSAT scores and a high GPA, then you can get into a good law school from Podunk State.</p>
<p>Look at what IBclass06 says - it’s all true. Pick the school that you like better and that you can afford, and then just work hard.</p>
<p>And yes, dubcongress, there is a big difference between graduate school and professional school.</p>
<p>I know somebody who did pre-med (obviously difficult at most schools) and they worked themselves to the core. I mean so many kids were “weeded out” and it seemed like barely any kids were left at all in the program. Now, for pre-med, this is true at a lot of schools because the remaining students are obvioulsy stronger and stand a better chance of getting into top med programs, making Wake look better.</p>
<p>I can’t remember anybody right now that I know who has done a business major at Wake so I can’t help you there, but you should expect to work pretty hard.</p>
<p>Pre-med programs are like that pretty much anywhere, particularly because of the rigor of the program. You have to take so many science classes at once that require a huge capacity for memorization. My alma mater was well-known for its pre-med program and although biology pre-med was the biggest major freshman year, by senior year the biology department was not even in the top 5 biggest majors and less than half of the kids who started out pre-med were not pre-med anymore.</p>
<p>Part of that is because some kids, even those who really want to be pre-med, can’t handle the work; but a big part of it is because when you’re in high school you don’t know about the huge range of careers that exist out there. Being a physician is one the most prominent ones and seems like a good idea - you’re well-respected, you make a lot of money, you get to help people, and you have no idea what it really means to be a physician at the top. But when you get into college, you can discover so many other jobs that fit you better and that you actually like more, and a lot of people leave pre-med for that reason, too. (One of the reasons I’m kind of against BS/MD programs, but that’s a different subject.)</p>
<p>dubcongress, I fully agree that you should go to the school where you find the best fit. That’s where you’re most like to thrive and get the grades you need to be competitive in law school admissions. The fact that Brandeis’ admission rate to law school is 86% versus 60% for Wake Forest, according to their respective websites, should not be decisionally significant. The same is true for the 75% Brandeis med school acceptance rate verus Wake Forest’s 68% rate. Although those differentials in overall admissions success might play a part if you are not at the top of your class, in effect pulling you along, so long as you excel at Wake Forest, you’ll be competitive. Fit is relatively more important than prestige or overall academic prowess. For example, I know of a student who was accepted at both Brandeis and Harvard this year who has chosen to attend Brandeis because of the fit factor. Good luck.</p>