<p>Lookin to go to law school, interested in writing etc. What are some good schools for that area of study. Plz post Prestigous as well as not so known schools, thx.</p>
<p>so...all schools that are good in writing?</p>
<p>Overall reputation matters much more than program rank for people looking to go to law. Go to the best school with the most inflation, forget the major rank. HYP, Stanford, Brown, Dartmouth, Duke, Amherst, Williams etc all do amazingly well at placing grads into top law schools.</p>
<p>Reputation matters exactly nil for getting into law school, go to a cheap school with grade inflation or very weak competition.</p>
<p>Or better yet, forget about law school for now, and go to a school you'll like - writing is not a rare strength.</p>
<p>The authors of "The Elements of Style" counsel you to avoid "etc." unless you're realing with a universally known series: "face cards (ace, king, etc.)..."</p>
<p>When you say, "writing, etc.", I have no idea what word would come after "writing."</p>
<p>Any school that takes teaching seriously will teach you to be a better writer.</p>
<p>Reputation actually matters a lot. Grades are weighted according to perceived institutional strength and if you can get a 3.7+ from a top school with inflation its better than near a 4.0 at a much lesser school. Look at law school placement:</p>
<p>Harvard Law School
2006-2007 # of Students Undergraduate Enrollment
Harvard 241 6,715
Yale 113 5,303
Stanford 79 6,391
Penn 57 9,730
Princeton 54 4,775
Brown 48 5,798
Cal-Berkeley 48 23,863
Columbia 46 5,593
Cornell 45 13,523
DUKE 41 6,259
Ucla 39 25,432
Dartmouth 35 4,005
Georgetown 32 6,587</p>
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<p>Yale Law School
2005-2006 # of Students Undergraduate Enrollment
Harvard 89 6,715
Yale 86 5,303
Stanford 42 6,391
Princeton 34 4,775
Columbia 18 5,593
Brown 17 5,798
Cal-Berkeley 16 23,863
DUKE 13 6,259
Dartmouth 13 4,005
Williams College 12 1,965
U of Virginia 10 13,440
Amherst 9 1,648</p>
<p>Now take into account the size of the schools.</p>
<p>A 4.0 at Chico State will be better than a 3.7 at Harvard 100% of the time.</p>
<p>If you seriously think those statistics prove your point, I worry for you. Better students go to Harvard, of course, they will do better in law school admissions because they will get a much higher LSAT on average (166 vs. 150 overall and far more at the top of the range). </p>
<p>However, for the person capable of getting 175, the choice of school won't matter. If there's any adjustment for grades (and the support for this is dubious) it's certainly far less than 0.3. Even if such an adjustment were made, it reflects a real factor - getting good grades is harder. You would be the first person to say that any student even allowed to set foot on the hallowed grounds of Dartmouth would be able to easily get a 4.0 at one of those plebian schools. For the same student, going to a worse school would mean higher grades and the same LSAT = at least as good a law school.</p>
<p>No way. A 3.7 at Harvard is much better than a 4.0 at Chico state. Look there is a limit on high a GPA can go. You can't get a 9.0 at Chico state, your limit is a 4.0. Harvard is looking for a 3.7+, 172+. If you have a 3.7 at an Ivy its getting a far bigger boost. Not to mention better recommendations, a likely far more interesting application (due to far better resources, etc.) Haas actually published its weighting system a while back. Its very real and good schools get a boost.</p>
<p>I admire your general confidence in speaking about things of which you are entirely ignorant, but you should generally avoid it in areas where facts to the contrary are well-established. Law school is a numbers game for every school except Yale and Stanford and, whatever you think the justice of the situation, it's simply a fact that a 4.0 at Chico will do better. </p>
<p>If you have a 172-173, <3.75, you will never get in to Harvard, no matter what school (1 accepted (URM), 27 rejected): <a href="http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/search_schools.php?action=search&school_code=0008&lsat1=172&lsat2=173&fee_waiver=0&status=0&gpa_lsdas1=&gpa_lsdas2=3.75&attending=0&cycle=4&gpa_degree1=&gpa_degree2=&withdrawn=0&program=1&index1=&index2=&state=0&application_type=0&scholarship1=&scholarship2=&sex=0&multiple_lsat=0&urm=0&international=0&x=47&y=7%5B/url%5D">http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/search_schools.php?action=search&school_code=0008&lsat1=172&lsat2=173&fee_waiver=0&status=0&gpa_lsdas1=&gpa_lsdas2=3.75&attending=0&cycle=4&gpa_degree1=&gpa_degree2=&withdrawn=0&program=1&index1=&index2=&state=0&application_type=0&scholarship1=&scholarship2=&sex=0&multiple_lsat=0&urm=0&international=0&x=47&y=7</a></p>
<p>If you have a 172-173, >3.9, you will always get in, no matter what school: (23 accepted, 2 rejected): <a href="http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/search_schools.php?action=search&school_code=0008&lsat1=172&lsat2=173&fee_waiver=0&status=0&gpa_lsdas1=3.9&gpa_lsdas2=&attending=0&cycle=4&gpa_degree1=&gpa_degree2=&withdrawn=0&program=1&index1=&index2=&state=0&application_type=0&scholarship1=&scholarship2=&sex=0&multiple_lsat=0&urm=0&international=0&x=17&y=8%5B/url%5D">http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/search_schools.php?action=search&school_code=0008&lsat1=172&lsat2=173&fee_waiver=0&status=0&gpa_lsdas1=3.9&gpa_lsdas2=&attending=0&cycle=4&gpa_degree1=&gpa_degree2=&withdrawn=0&program=1&index1=&index2=&state=0&application_type=0&scholarship1=&scholarship2=&sex=0&multiple_lsat=0&urm=0&international=0&x=17&y=8</a></p>
<p>If they are making 0.3 adjustments based on school, believe me, no such dichotomy based on a 0.15 difference would be possible. Keep in mind, the high GPA group there is actually more likely to be from a public school, since a 172-173 there would be more likely to get top grades (and looking at the individual profiles, most are indeed from publics). </p>
<p>BTW, Haas is a business school, while Boalt's formula hasn't been used in a decade. All statistical evidence shows that nothing like it is currently used by any top schools with the possible exception of Columbia.</p>
<p>Knox College seems like an interesting choice to me; they have a pre-law program (I went to law school after getting a BA in English and I agree with posters above that the major has nothing to do with getting into law school or doing well there) and the president of the school practiced law for 30 years. </p>
<p>College of Wooster is also a writing-intensive school, and if you chose your senior independent study project in a law-related area you'd have a nice piece of work already done.</p>