<p>How does Cal place into law schools from undergrad? Is it difficult to get into a top-tier school from Cal undergrad?</p>
<p>[Career</a> Center - Profile of Law School Admissions - UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm]Career”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm)</p>
<p>Pretty difficult. Average GPA of Berkeley undergrads accepted to Stanford Law 2003-2007 is 4.0+. Better work hard and get those A+'s if HYS is your goal! </p>
<p>More important, of course, is the LSAT. Most of those from Berkeley accepted to the T14 have on average 170+ LSAT.</p>
<p>If you’re not a top science/math/econ student who can beat the curve, it’s best you take liberal arts to protect your GPA.</p>
<p>[Career</a> Center - Profile of Law School Admissions - UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm]Career”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm)</p>
<p>The stats for 2007 applicants were just released. As terms for Yale and Stanford, almost no one from Berkeley got in directly from undergrad, but the same can be said for all other the top undergrads. Stanford and Yale usually take students who have work experience. However, some top law schools had very good acceptance rates from Berkeley in 2007:</p>
<p>Harvard: 20%
Columbia: 23%
NYU: 27%
Berkeley: 20%</p>
<p>Eh, how do you get higher than a 4.0 in college? I thought A+/A were the max at 4.0.</p>
<p>LSAC counts A+'s as 4.33 on the GPA scale. This creates a somewhat unfair advantage for students from lesser schools, where A+'s are much easier to attain. However the LSAT is supposed to be the determining factor in separating the men from the boys.</p>
<p>I was speaking to some law school advisers during Berkeley’s Law School career event, and the NYU Law adviser mentioned that Berkeley is a feeder school. She even mentioned that one year Berkeley had the greatest number of students from one school. Berkeley law school, of course, also mentioned that Berkeley is the top feeder school. Columbia said something similar too. </p>
<p>The reason why the GPA averages for Berkeley is so high is because Berkeley offers A+'s, while many schools, such as ivies, do not give out A+'s.</p>
<p>Only the most supreme gunners put forth the effort to not only have a pristine GPA, but to have A+'s as well, all while attending a university notorious for grade deflation. It certainly takes effort, and the students possibly have no life (unless you’re in an easy liberal arts major, and even then it’s not easy getting those A+'s).</p>
<p>not exactly true, afghans. my bf has gotten 13 A+s so far (he’s a sophomore), and is double majoring in EECS and Engineering Physics with a minor in Math. and he isn’t the hardest worker on earth and totally has a life.</p>
<p>that said, it’s not easy to do incredibly well here. but it’s not impossible, either. don’t assume that if someone has a good gpa, he/she has no life.</p>
<p>he said possibly, but your point is valid.</p>