<p>At Yale Law School this year </p>
<p>82 from Yale University
63 from Harvard University
26 Columbia University (26)
20 Brown University (20)</p>
<p>17 Princeton University (17)</p>
<p>13 University of Pennsylvania (13)</p>
<p>Princeton pre-law is bottom ivy ?</p>
<p>Get thee behind me, jomjom.</p>
<p>I’ve seen this stat posted on numerous message boards in the past day and I’m not really sure why or how its gaining so much steam aside from the dedicated efforts of some ■■■■■. Having been a Princeton pre-law, I can tell you that far fewer people from Princeton apply to law school than do people from Harvard or Yale. Take a look at the acceptance rates that Princeton has to any law school and they’re roughly the same as Harvard and Yale’s. </p>
<p>Yale UG obviously does better at YLS and H UG does better at HLS but that is besides the point.</p>
<p>German_car is just jomjom in disguise - he’s posting the exact same meaningless stats.</p>
<p>Meaningless why? As PimpDaddy1 said, look at the percentages, not the raw number of people who were accepted.</p>
<p>Seriously. Raw numbers don’t mean much. Over 2 years, only 69 people applied to Yale Law from Princeton and 10 were admitted. And over that same time 34 of the 123 Princeton students that applied to Harvard Law were admitted.
[Stats</a> « Office of Career Services « Princeton University](<a href=“Search Opportunities | Human Resources”>Search Opportunities | Human Resources) </p>
<p>I think those percentages are very good since they’re higher than the general admission rates.</p>
<p>I can’t find the number of students that applied to each law school from harvard or yale undergrad on either school’s website. does anyone know what the percentages are? Like Pimpdaddy said, I’m pretty sure they’re similar.</p>
<p>So 14.49% of Princeton applicants made it into Yale Law School, which usually has a national acceptance rate of about 6% to 8%, and 27.64% of Princeton applicants made were accepted into Harvard Law School, which usually has a national acceptance rate of about 10% to 12%. I’d say Princeton’s pre-law students are doing pretty well in law school admissions.</p>
<p>@buddlebuddy - I’m looking for Harvard’s and Yale’s applicant/admitted stats. I’ll post again if I find anything.</p>
<p>Yale’s were available online when I looked at them a couple of years ago, Harvard’s are kept at the houses and are only available on paper (at least that was true before)</p>
<p>Why smaller number of Princeton students apply to Yale Law school ?</p>
<p>I guess Princeton graduates can not achieve LSAT scores high enough to apply for YLS.
17 Princeton UG at YLS is embarrassingly small number.</p>
<p>Princeton students are, as a gross generalization, more apt to go into business. Eric Schmidt, Meg Whiteman, Jeff Bezos. As long as we are all simply repeating ourselves:). Princetonians shy away from law school. After all, as we know, they may end up on the Supreme Court. And that is just SO much work…Princetonians prefer to lounge on lawns and wear seersucker suits. Glad we have that cleared up. Sotomayor would agree with me, I’m sure.</p>
<p>Ah, Alumother, there’s probably not much point in engaging this particular poster. However, you are correct in noting that a smaller percentage of Princeton graduates apply to law school than graduates of Yale or Harvard where it is more popular. </p>
<p>Last year only 6% of the Princeton graduating class applied to law school (a total of 74 students). It appears that all were accepted to at least one of the schools to which they applied and they were accepted at high rates (much higher than the average acceptance rates) at all of the top law schools. The average LSAT scores for graduating seniors at Princeton are the same as Yale’s and second only to Harvard’s.</p>
<p>Comparison of Average LSAT scores for graduating seniors applying to law school (180 is a perfect score and 150 is the national average)</p>
<p>166—Harvard
165—Princeton, Yale
164—Stanford
163—Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Penn
162—Chicago </p>
<p>(The above chart was supplied by another poster, IBClass06, but I have checked it out and it appears to be correct.)</p>
<p>Note that all of these averages are lower than the averages for students accepted to the top law schools. Those averages look more like this:</p>
<p>Average LSAT Scores at Leading Law Schools</p>
<p>173—Yale Law School
172—Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School
170—NYU Law School, Stanford Law School, U. of Chicago Law School</p>
<p>169—Northwestern Law School
168—Georgetown Law School
167—Cornell Law School
166–Boalt Hall School of Law</p>
<p>[LSAT</a> Scores: Average LSAT Score and Law School Admissions](<a href=“http://www.eduers.com/lsat/scores.htm]LSAT”>http://www.eduers.com/lsat/scores.htm) </p>
<p>I suspect that one of the reasons a smaller percentage of Princeton graduates apply to law school is that there are far more engineering majors who are highly unlikely to go that route. When Princeton students do apply, they do very well indeed.</p>
<p>■■■■■ just got squashed by PtonGrad.</p>
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<p>This means smaller number of Princeton graduates have LSAT scores high enough to apply. </p>
<p>Yale UG get preferential treatment from Yale Law, Medicine, MBA, PhD programs
Harvard UG get preferential treatment from Harvard Law, Medicine, MBA, PhD programs
Columbia UG get preferential treatment from Columbia Law, Medicine, MBA, PhD programs</p>
<p>Princeton UG get preferential treatment from here [Princeton</a> Law School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Law_School]Princeton”>Princeton Law School - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Relevant to our persistent poster’s bashing, Justice Sotomayor (Princeton Class of '76) just took the oath of office as the newest Supreme Court Justice.</p>
<p>[Sotomayor</a> takes oath, seat on bench - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-09-08-sotomayor-scotus-seated_N.htm]Sotomayor”>http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-09-08-sotomayor-scotus-seated_N.htm)</p>
<p>Sotomayor is the 11th Supreme Court Justice to have received an undergraduate degree from Princeton which has now graduated more U.S. Supreme Court Justices than any other undergraduate institution in U.S. history. The second leading institutions are Harvard College and Yale College each of which has graduated ten.</p>
<p>Several people mentioned Sotomayor. So she is the best one that Princeton produced ?</p>
<p>Look at Obama, Bush, Clintons, Gore, Summers etc… Harvard Yale produced far more impressive figures in Law/Politics. Harvard and Yale are at different level. </p>
<p>Look at the following link
[Dr</a>. Kat’s List: Colleges to Consider if You Want to Be a Supreme Court Justice | ApplyWise.com](<a href=“http://applywise.com/aug09_supreme_court.aspx]Dr”>http://applywise.com/aug09_supreme_court.aspx)</p>
<p>Princeton is NOT on the list.</p>
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<p>Yes, apparently she is viewed that way, especially by people you’ve touted on your list, no less - Obama and Bush specifically, since they nominated her for positions on the bench.</p>
<p>You got served, again.</p>
<p>Sorry but I think Alito is the best we’ve produced.</p>
<p>And also- grade deflation really is a killer for a lot of my buddies looking at Law School.</p>