<p>YGG - I did hear a story about a current Caltech student being admitted to Yale med school with 3.4 GPA because he has a great story to tell (premed forum at admitted days for Caltech) but I am sure the MCAT score is off the charts. </p>
<p>The public colleges are a stickler for GPA but the top private med schools do seem to care about other attributes of the applicant inlcluding the undergrad school.</p>
<p>Med school admissions are far more holistic than law school admissions and should not be compared to law school admissions. Yale Law is also not the only good law school out there.</p>
<p>texaspg, I did not claim that Yale Law does not give preference to graduates of Yale College and other highly regarded undergraduate institutions. I only made the claim that the information you cite–a mere list of undergraduate institutions attended by current students–does not provide any insight into whether Yale Law puts any weight on the undergraduate institution attended.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I’m not sure you understand the concept of self-selection. That “last year’s admitted student’s colleges . . . are at 74” and “50% of seats [go] to [students from] 9 schools” could support self-selection. If the number of students per capita from the top 100 undergraduate schools applying to Yale Law increases exponentially as you approach the top-ranked school (i.e. a more prestigious undergraduate institution makes a student more likely to apply to a prestigious law school), the numbers you have cited would support (or, at least, not go against) a conclusion of self-selection.</p>
<p>I dont think you have any idea why people want to do law at Yale or Harvard. They are all interested in fame or money. They are all applying there because that is the shortest ticket. Should I point out that this self selection process will include half the law school applicants of the nation if they think they can get into one of these schools?</p>
<p>Who gets picked and whether they get picked once they apply is the whole point.</p>
<p>I don’t see how that follows from what I said. Some people also want to go to HYS because they wish to improve their critical thinking and rhetorical skills.</p>
<p>If you’re trying to claim that everyone applies to HYS regardless of GPA/LSAT/other factors, that is simply wrong. If you’re trying to claim that all students applying to law school that would be marginal candidates for admission to HYS will apply to HYS regardless of the undergraduate institution they attend (and factors correlated to that–most notably, geography), I do not think it is outrageous to claim that undergraduate institution (and those correlated factors) do influence where people apply (i.e. self-selection).</p>
<p>I wonder where those other 93% of the poor deluded souls went to school who had to be turned down.</p>