<p>Okay. So I know that MIT isn't generally the place to go for pre-law.. and I'm actually a course 18-ish kind of person in general... but I have no clue what I want to do after college, and at this point, law school is still very much a viable option (a little known fact is that math and physics majors do the best on LSATs.. but that's a bit random). </p>
<p>I'm wondering that since MIT students are known to have "low" GPAs and law schools factor GPA heavily in their admissions, how hard is it for an MIT grad to go to law school? Is it a popular or well-traveled route?</p>
<p>The MIT Careers Office has prelaw stats [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html#law%5Dhere%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html#law]here[/url</a>]. It's not a particularly common path -- only 11 seniors in the class of 2007 applied to law school.</p>
<p>Since so few students apply to law school every year, I only know one person who applied. She got into several schools and chose NYU. She was very happy with her choices, and I know her grades weren't the absolute best.</p>
<p>I know one person who went that route, too (from the class of '05). He just graduated from Harvard Law.</p>
<p>Thanks for the stats page, though it's a shame they don't give all of the same information for the law side as the medical side (like the national acceptance rate and range of LSAT scores and GPA for those accepted and denied admission) and I wonder why that is. I'm also surprised the average LSAT score of all applicants was only 164 as I would have pictured MIT to have a higher average given how MIT is more of a "logic" type of thinking school than most and the LSAT involves a lot of logic reasoning. Does anyone know what Harvard's undergraduates' average is LSAT score?</p>
<p>I can only think of one MIT graduate I know who went to law school. He got his undergraduate degree in physics, had an LSAT score in the mid-170's, and got his law degree from Yale (the toughest of the schools to get into, in part due to having a much smaller class size than Harvard Law). I am not sure what his MIT GPA was, though.</p>
<p>My guess is that MIT doesn't give much information on law school applicants simply because only a very small portion of graduates apply to law school. Only 73 applicants to law school out of a class of 1000...</p>
<p>That 73 includes all law school applicants from MIT, not just undergrads. It's actually 11 out of a class of 1000+, which of course only emphasizes the point.</p>
<p>Harvard's average is around 166. I know one who is going to HLS next year, and another deciding on Berkeley and Michigan. I actually think if you graduate from MIT with a high GPA and high LSAT, it would be an advantage because law schools always like diversity in undergraduate colleges represented. An increasing number of MIT graduates are now going into law, so I read.</p>