<p>I just finished my freshman year at an ivy-league school, and I'm planning on applying to law school. Assuming my gpa and lsat are in the range for harvard, will my status as a legacy give me a boost? My dad graduated cum laude from Harvard law school, but I don't think he's been super involved with harvard since he graduated and i'm sure he hasn't donated that much money.</p>
<p>Which ivy are you at now?</p>
<p>What does that have to do with his question?</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m sure it will help a little bit, but it probably won’t be enough to get you in unless you’re already on the borderline for acceptance.</p>
<p>Actually, it does matter which ivy he attends.</p>
<p>Not really. Your undergraduate school is irrelevant unless there’s some kind of quality/accreditation issue. Given that he goes to an Ivy League school, that clearly isn’t the case.</p>
<p>Harvard Law School explicitly states that they don’t give preferential treatment to Harvard College students. The data shows that this might not necessarily be the case, but I seriously doubt that the OP’s undergrad institution is relevant for the issue at hand.</p>
<p>Actually, Harvard out of all the T-14 is the most notable one to give preferential treatment to certain undergraduate institutions (other ivy leagues). And since when has the information has it ever been a good idea to take the “word” of a law school as the “whole” truth? (They can’t even give accurate employment statistics…)</p>
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<p>Do you have, say, a link or anything? Because of its size, and because it loses the vast majority of cross-admits to Yale, Harvard can’t reject many 3.8+/174+ applicants and maintain its numbers. Of course, a disproportionate percentage of the people with those stats are from Ivy undergrads.</p>