<p>My son is in a TOP ivy. They have degraded the gpa system. It's very hard to get high GPA. My question is that if the top law schools care about the difference? Will they accept students from this kind of school with lower gpa?</p>
<p>Law schools are typically going to care more about what the number is than how it compares to his classmates. But the score report will give the average GPA and LSAT of students from that school that have applied to law schools over the last three or so years. Law schools can sort of use this to gauge how impressive a particular GPA is, even though it's a really imperfect system.</p>
<p>It really depends. Although most Ivies, save Cornell have reasonably inflated grades, and Princeton still does, although they've been trying to limit their A's. If the school is known for its deflation, however, it will be taken into account, or at least that's what I've seen through bumbling around these boards for 3 years.</p>
<p>My boyfriend goes to a school with pretty inflated grades, and I don't think it affected him negatively. It really seems as though adcoms just look at the number and don't do much mental adjusting for circumstances.</p>