<p>Since both GPA and LSATs count in the admission process, do law schools take into account schools that are notorious for grade deflation or do they simply look at your grades? Thank you.</p>
<p>This has been addressed in numerous other threads before. But, in short, the answer is that they will just look at your grades without factoring in how hard or easy your undergraduate institution is.</p>
<p>There are lots of people who make the claim that LazyKid made. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone who serves on a law school admissions committee make that claim, however. I’d be surprised if it were true. But I don’t claim to know for sure.</p>
<p>While many students feel that their college is grade-deflated, the facts (mean gpa’s) tend to argue otherwise. :)</p>
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<p>The fact that law school admission is formulaic - suggests that hard numbers (gpa and lsat) constitute the majority of decisions at law schools. I guess having gone to Harvard undergraduate may help a person get into a top law school when that specific applicant is borderline. However, you’d have to agree (or disagree?) that quality of UG is completely shadowed by one’s LSAT score and GPA, and the true effect of one’s chances at top law schools due to one’s undergraduate institution can’t be detected in sufficient quantity. </p>
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<p>At Berkeley Law, quality of undergraduate institution is seen as ‘many’ of ‘soft factors’ along with one’s ‘choice of major’, which strongly hints that it isn’t much of importance to the admissions committee. I would argue that one’s choice of college major doesn’t affect law school admissions chances much at all. And, for the dean of admissions to say that the quality of one’s undergraduate institution is considered in line and similar importance as one’s choice of major as ‘soft factor’ tells you all you need to know.</p>
<p>The point is you will get into X,Y,Z law school because of your LSAT and GPA. But, if you don’t get into X,Y,Z law school, it will be probably because of your LSAT and GPA, even if your college suffers from the most severe grade deflation in the world.</p>
<p>The report the LSDAS sends to law schools lists each candidate’s gpa recalculated a la LSDAS, the median GPA of the law school applicants from that school, the approximate percentile of the candidate’s gpa in the group of LS apps from the same school and the median LSAT of applicants from the same school. </p>
<p>I just don’t believe that law schools have the LSAC calculate all of this and then pay no attention to it.</p>
<p>The “problem” is that many students think that their college is “grade deflated” if the median gpa is low. The way LSDAS calculates grade inflation the issue is how the median gpa compares to the median LSAT. A school with a median gpa of 3.0 and a median LSAT of 149 is not grade inflated. </p>
<p>Read a gazillion previous threads for more info.</p>
<p>Thank you for that info, jonri - I never knew before that the LSDAS report took into account fellow applicants from each undergrad institution. That should put GPA in perspective if the college truly doesn’t inflate grades.</p>