I read the entering class profile of Yale. https://www.law.yale.edu/admissions/profiles-statistics/entering-class-profile
It shows that 75% of gpa is 3.98 and the highest gpa can be up to 4.28. Obviously a lot of students are from institutions with a 4.3 gpa scale.
So if I am attending an undergraduate institution with a 4.0 scale, will that have bad impact on my admission? I am from the college of william &mary in in Virginia. Thank you so much.
Not that many colleges have an A+ scale, so just do the best you can.
A 4.0 Valedictorian from W&M would be a better candidate than say, #25 with a 4.05 from another school with a higher grading scale.
Incidentally, because of their small class sizes, Yale and Stanford look way beyond GPA+LSAT, so EC’s can matter at those two.