<p>This particular poster seems to have nothing to bring to the table other than this one statistic which he has now posted multiple times on the Princeton board and elsewhere. If redundancy is the game here, then I’ll play along and repeat what I’ve said before as well:</p>
<p>Comparison of Average LSAT scores for graduating seniors from one year ago (180 is a perfect score)</p>
<p>Princeton applicants do very well in law school admissions and the accomplishments of Princeton lawyers are significant. In fact, despite Princeton’s small size, more of its undergraduates have become Supreme Court Justices than the graduates of any other college in the nation. Currently, there are two Princeton graduates among the nine Supreme Court Justices. Only Stanford is as well represented among undergraduate alma maters on the current court.</p>
<p>Like many of my friends, I attended Harvard Law immediately after Princeton. Also like most of them, I had my pick of the leading law schools in the country.</p>
<p>265 are from Harvard College
135 are from Yale College
91 are from Stanford</p>
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about 50 from Princeton.
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ok Princeton grads get high LSAT scores. But then why so few of them are admitted to top law schools ???</p>
<p>It is because top law schools strongly prefer their own UG applicants. Harvard Law Yale Stanford Columbia Law schools prefer applicants from their UG school even though GPA and LSAT scores are lower than Princeton applicants’.</p>
<p>Hey Germancar - You have to adjust for class size! Things change significantly then. Penn is like 2.5 times bigger than Princeton and Dartmouth for example.</p>
<p>Being a Yalie, I feel I should step in and defend Princeton. The grading at Yale (outside math, science, and english) is not terrible hard, the same can not be said about Princeton. Sure one could look at this data and say that Yale is better (which is flawed because obviously Yale gives preference to its own undergrad and yes probably to Harvard as well—because we are really wierd and incestous likee that) but you also have to take into account that the average GPA at Princeton is probably a LOT lower than the average at Yale, which has inflated grades. So it is good for me YAY, but it does not mean Yale is better than Princeton.</p>